Tag Archives: The Proposal

Couch Potato Pickings | The best and worst movie marriage proposals

In The Proposal,  Sandra Bullock plays a bossy publishing exec who bribes her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into going through with a sham marriage proposal to avoid deportation. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade … Continue reading

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News Hound | Tom Cruise takes on a 4th Mission: Impossible and 24’s Jack Bauer goes feature-length

News Hound sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – so you don’t have to get your paws dirty… Disney are going to make a sequel to their hit musical Enchanted and … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Best of Bullock

So, Sandra Bullock has won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -  Drama. Do you think she’ll win Best Actress Oscar? Or will it be Meryl? I think both are great. Bullock is … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince It’s a kind of magic… Harry and his Hogwarts cohorts have to contend with a new potions teacher, Voldemort’s Death Eaters, and raging hormones in their sixth year at the School of Witchraft and … Continue reading

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Robots in disguise… This big-budget sequel sees Sam Witwicky again joining forces with the Autobots in their battle against the Decepticons; a battle, it seems, that may have started on Earth many years before… If … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Inglourious Basterds Bloody battle… Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War Two, Quentin Tarantino’s revenge movie follows a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers as they attempt to spread fear through the Third Reich. If you can see this, then you … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

The Time Traveler’s Wife Endless love… Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams star in this sci-fi romance about a man with a genetic condition that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage. If you … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince It’s a kind of magic… Harry and his Hogwarts cohorts have to contend with a new potions teacher, Voldemort’s Death Eaters, and raging hormones in their sixth year at the School of Witchraft and … Continue reading

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The Best view | Katherine Heigl & Gerard Butler star in crass and sexist romcom – that’s The Ugly Truth

Hard on the spike heels of the lame Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy The Proposal comes yet another battle-of-the-sexes romcom. Difficult though it may be to imagine, The Ugly Truth is much, much worse – a hideously misguided attempt to … Continue reading

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince It’s a kind of magic… Harry and his Hogwarts cohorts have to contend with a new potions teacher, Voldemort’s Death Eaters, and raging hormones in their sixth year at the School of Witchcraft and … Continue reading

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