Tag Archives: Susan Sarandon

Name That Chest: Don’t feel guilty if you can’t guess this one…

Posted on 8 March 2013 by Beth Williams

This mystery chest is a tricky one. Here are your clues: The film pictured comes from the 70s. The mystery star’s latest film is a road movie, and it’s out today. In my opinion, this star is one of the … Continue reading →

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Film review | Robot & Frank – Retired cat burglar Langella finds an unlikely partner in crime

Posted on 8 March 2013 by Jason Best

Offbeat buddy caper Robot & Frank presents us with two of cinema’s more unusual partners in crime: Frank is a retired cat burglar; and Robot is, well, a robot. Played with cranky charm by the excellent Frank Langella, Frank lives … Continue reading →

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DVD review | That’s My Boy – Adam Sandler’s latest man-child gets close to the knuckle

Posted on 23 January 2013 by Jason Best

Adam Sandler plays yet another of his boorish man-child types in crass comedy That’s My Boy, which adds close-to-the-knuckle raunchiness to the star’s usual mix of stupidity and sentimentality. His character is washed-up 1980s celebrity Donny Berger, a vulgar layabout … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Jeff, Who Lives at Home – The Duplass Brothers zoom in on life’s cosmic connections

Posted on 17 September 2012 by Jason Best

Like its slacker hero, offbeat comedy Jeff, Who Lives at Home by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass is shambling, easygoing and slow to get going. Jason Segal’s Jeff is a 30-year-old unemployed pothead who still lives in his mother’s basement … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray review | Thelma & Louise – Davis & Sarandon drive into movie history as feminist icons

Posted on 13 February 2012 by Jason Best

Two decades ago, Ridley Scott was not the name that immediately sprang to mind as the director of a feminist road movie, but there he was back in 1991 at the wheel of Thelma & Louise, a revved-up vehicle for … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Witches, apathetic trick or treating, and the glory of older women

Posted on 31 October 2010 by Beth Williams

Happy Halloween! Back when I was a kid, my sister and I teamed up with our friend next door just before Halloween to post notes into every letterbox in our road. On these little letters we’d written a silly little … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings: Crime and Justice movies for Inside Justice Week

Posted on 17 October 2009 by Beth Williams

People are fascinated by crime and justice aren’t they? You just have to look at the amount of films and TV programmes devoted to the subject. Personally, I’m a glutton for Wire in the Blood, Trial and Retribution, and Waking … Continue reading →

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Speaker’s Corner | Julie Tese reveals why White Palace is her Guilty Pleasure

Posted on 26 August 2009 by Jason Best

My tatty old video of White Palace is dated 1990, the year the film came out. Nearly twenty years old; but the theme provides the same guilty pleasure now as it did then – older woman wowing much younger guy … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Shall We Dance

Posted on 3 July 2009 by Beth Williams

If you dusted off your old dancing shoes following last Friday’s toe-tapping movie on Watch, then I hope you haven’t put them away yet. It seems that Friday night is dancing night on this channel at the moment. A couple … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Save the Last Dance, and other dancing movies

Posted on 26 June 2009 by Beth Williams

Pirouetting, toe-tapping, hoofing, gliding, stepping, strutting. Dance moves in the movies are certainly not in short supply. Ballet meets hip hop in tonight’s dancing drama where Julia Stiles plays a bereaved middle class teen who has her love for dance … Continue reading →

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