Couch Potato Pickings | Gosford Park
On Channel 4 tonight at 9pm [View with PicLens] As someone who struggles to remember names and faces, I’m so glad that so many stars were cast in this Robert Altman upstairs downstairs period comedy...
View ArticleThe Best view | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling’s wizard...
When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince got pulled from last autumn’s cinema schedule, fans of the teenage wizard feared it portended the loss of his screen magic. Fear not! The new movie casts a...
View ArticleBFI 53rd London Film Festival – Dapper George Clooney and Fantastic Mr Fox
A dapper George Clooney was at the forefront of the sizeable Hollywood contingent trooping down the red carpet in Leicester Square last night for the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s animated screen...
View ArticleOut on DVD | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter’s sixth screen adventure probably won’t bewitch any newcomers to JK Rowling’s globe-conquering saga, but for viewers who’ve followed the young wizard’s exploits over the past decade,...
View ArticleOut on DVD | Fantastic Mr Fox – Wes Anderson, too foxy for Roald Dahl’s tale
Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic Fantastic Mr Fox is stuffed full of the clever, quirky verbal and visual details and gags one has come to expect from...
View ArticleCouch Potato Pickings | Gosford Park – a film for all you Downton...
Aristocrats and their servants have been dominating the telly over recent months. It all started in September with that ratings hit Downton Abbey. And then the BBC continued the trend over the festive...
View ArticleCouch Potato Pickings | The Book of Eli didn’t ring my bell, but I loved that...
I was immediately rather intrigued when I heard about The Book of Eli. A post-apocalyptic movie, it tells the tale of a lone traveller (Denzel Washington) who attempts to transport the only remaining...
View ArticleFilm review | Quartet – Maggie Smith & Tom Courtenay access all arias in...
Dustin Hoffman makes his film-directing debut with heart-warming ensemble comedy-drama Quartet – and it’s no surprise that he should get the best from a classy line-up of veteran British stars led by...
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