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Couch Potato’s three steps to predicting this year’s Oscar winners

First, check out ‘How to win an Oscar – some simple rules‘. Second, remind yourself of the winning films of yesteryear. Sky Movies Showcase is showing all of these Oscar-winning movies – and more – over the next few days: … Continue reading

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Gordon ‘Greed is good’ Gekko is back. But is he now a dinosaur?

Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street wasn’t a great movie but it was uncannily timely. Appearing in cinemas a mere two months after Black Monday precipitated the decade’s financial crash, it boasted an era-defining performance from Michael Douglas as monstrous … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Carey Mulligan! Does a tattooed future await?

Carey Mulligan did such a good job playing a worldly teenager in An Education that it came as a shock to learn that she’s 25 today. Happy birthday Carey! I’m looking forward to seeing her as Michael (Gordon Gekko) Douglas’s … Continue reading

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New York State of Mind

Star of countless movie and TV appearances, New York City is one of the most filmed locations on the planet. And certainly one of the most beautiful – celluloid loves this city. From its steel and glass canyons to suburban … Continue reading

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News Hound | 29 April 2009

Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – because we like to stick our noses into it… Gavin Hood, director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has revealed that the blockbuster movie … Continue reading

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News Muse – Salma Hayek on breast behaviour

Haven’t we all at least once been stuck on a long-haul flight listening to the nerve wrecking oral symphony of someone else’s (very) unhappy baby? It makes me nervous just reminiscing. That sense of devastating powerlessness against the noise…that strong … Continue reading

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News Muse – 1980s redux

It started in a subtle way. Top Gun-style Ray Bans became fashionable again. Then in snuck the legwarmers followed by the leggings, spandex waist belts and oversized tops. Then came Miami Vice the movie and the recent reunion of New … Continue reading

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