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About a Boy and other misfits
Couch Potato Pickings Hugh Grant is brilliant in this comedy drama as Will, a hedonistic single man who finds himself involved in the lives of socially awkward 12-year-old Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and...
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Couch Potato Pickings | Little Miss Sunshine
[View with PicLens] Like Slumdog Millionaire and Juno the year before that, this indie comedy was a sleeper hit. Some would say it was THE sleeper hit of 2006. Starring Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette,...
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Couch Potato Pickings | Wedding Movies: the good, the bad, and the unexpected
Yesterday, two of my friends tied the knot and held a good old knees-up to mark the occasion. That’s the best sort of celebration in my opinion – simple, yet romantic. Simplicity, however, is not a...
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Top 10 Best Fake Accents in Movies
A natural accent – or at least, a fake natural accent – is essential in any film. Our guest writer Sabrina Dougall tells us her all-time favourite artificial accents in cinema. 1. Lindsay Lohan...
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Film review | Fright Night – Fangs for the memory: Farrell & Tennant sink...
Las Vegas teenager Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) comes to suspect that his suspicious new neighbour (Colin Farrell) is a vampire in Fright Night, a toothsome 3D remake of the darkly comic 1985...
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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: How Toni got into shape for Muriel’s Wedding
To play shy, overweight Abba fan Muriel in this movie, actress Toni Collette gained 40 pounds in just 7 weeks – with the help of a dietician of course. Muriel’s Wedding is showing tonight – 17th...
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Name That Chest: Sparkle and shine
Yes, ‘sparkle’ and ‘shine’ are two words that describe the exuberant character pictured perfectly. And they also combine to form the title of a very catchy song from this movie. Any ideas? Here’s a...
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DVD review | Mental – PJ Hogan unleashes Toni Collette’s subversive nanny on...
Toni Collette and PJ Hogan, star and director of Muriel’s Wedding, reunite for another darkly funny Aussie comedy – but this time the duo fail to pull off another brash triumph. Mental finds Collette...
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Film review | The Way, Way Back – Coming-of-age comedy captures pains and...
Funny, touching and irresistibly charming, The Way, Way Back is a coming-of-age comedy that gets the pains and joys and, above all, awkwardness of adolescence spot on. Tongue-tied, painfully...
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A Long Way Down | Film review – Hornby’s suicidal quartet vow to go on;...
The New Year’s Eve meeting of four suicidal Londoners at the top of a high-rise tower is the jumping off point for comedy-drama A Long Way Down, adapted from the Nick Hornby bestseller. Actually, none...
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