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Couch Potato Pickings – Mrs Doubtfire
Personally, I think this is Robin Williams’s best film. It’s certainly his most memorable role. To be an actor surely it’s essential to drag up at least once? Maybe it’s not so important for women,...
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Victor/Victoria and gender bending
Couch Potato Pickings On TCM tonight at 11.25pm Writers have had fun with gender crossing plotlines for centuries, as have film-makers, but the device (when done well) still has a surprisingly profound...
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Mary Poppins
Couch Potato Pickings This holiday favourite was never my spoonful of sugar. It bored me as a child, so I’ve never even watched it from start to finish. Needless to say, I wasn’t planning to pick it...
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Couch Potato Pickings | The Sound of Music: my ten favourite things
1. Sing-a-long heaven. 2. Making music and magic out of nuns and Nazis – amazing. 3. Teaches you how to remember the notes of the classical scale. 4. Shows you how to be resourceful with old...
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Couch Potato Paradox: Movies you have to see on the big screen
Well, it seems that my recent post about the benefits of a local cinema hit a nerve with many of you, judging by your many comments. Clearly, I’m not the only one longing for a picturehouse in close...
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Couch Potato’s London Staycation Diary: Sliding Doors and Silent Sisters
DAY TWO It’s the the second morning of our London Staycation (check out Day One here, and here), and Sofa Spud and I are sipping our champagne cocktails smugly. We’ve just been for a delicious and...
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News Muse – Looks do deceive, at least in Hollywood
I was quite excited this week to hear that fellow Swede and Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has been given as exciting a project as The Danish Girl – the true-story drama that will see...
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Blake Edwards RIP
So it’s farewell to film-maker Blake Edwards, who died this week at the age of 88. He’ll be remembered of course for the Pink Panther films, for the Cary Grant-Tony Curtis WW2 comedy Operation...
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Unforgettable screen entrance of the week – Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
Julie Andrews is so adorable perched on her little cloud, but my favourite scene is when she is measuring the height of the children, then measures herself and comes out as ‘Mary Poppins, practically...
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Name That Chest: I could’ve featured him in a soggy shirt or an unwanted...
Did you get last week’s mystery frontage? You Gleeks had no excuse if you watched the show on Monday. Click here for the mystery chest revealed. So, who owns this fine chest of badges, and in what...
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