Tag Archives: Viggo Mortensen

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

Taken 2 Hostage situation… This action thriller sequel sees Liam Neeson packing yet more punches as retired CIA operative Bryan Mills, who this time must protect his loved ones during a family holiday in Istanbul. If you can see this, … Continue reading

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DVD review | A Dangerous Method – Keira Knightley & Michael Fassbender on the analyst’s couch

If the idea of yet another costume film starring Keira Knightley doesn’t set your pulse racing then perhaps A Dangerous Method,  David Cronenberg’s absorbing historical drama about the early years of psychoanalysis will quicken your interest. Throwing herself – chin … Continue reading

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Win A Dangerous Method starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen on DVD

Adapted by Christopher Hampton from his play The Talking Cure, director David Cronenberg‘s A Dangerous Method is a thought-provoking tale of sex, theory and psychoanalysis which explores the intellectual battle of wills between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud … Continue reading

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The Best Apocalyptic Movies – Couch Potato investigates

I’ve  been giving some thought to apocalyptic movies this week. I guess that suggest what sort of mood I’ve been in – probably something to do with a nasty bout of food poisoning at the weekend. Anyway, I’ve been attempting … Continue reading

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At the Cinema | The Road – A glimmer of hope amid the post-apocalyptic gloom

The big freeze, global warming, economic meltdown, terror plots: with so many calamities currently besetting us, it’s no wonder that the cinema is cashing in on the prevailing mood that apocalypse is just around the corner. In the last few … Continue reading

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News Hound | 2 September 2009

Movie Talk 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… The bang. comedy theater in LA is putting on a Meryl Streep tribute … Continue reading

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The Best view | Good – Sleepwalking through the nightmare of Hitler’s Germany

We would all have been heroes had we lived in Hitler’s Germany, wouldn’t we? We would have recognised the dangers of Nazism from the start, held fast to our moral principles and taken an unwavering stand against evil. Of course, … Continue reading

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