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Mamma Mia! out now on DVD
The fabulous movie musical is finally available on DVD so you can relive all the joy and the drama from the comfort of your own sofa. Not that you’d be sitting on it for long as the disc has some foot...
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Couch Potato Pickings On ITV3 tonight at 9pm One of the best things about this underrated film, starring Jimi Mistry, is its wonderfully varied soundtrack, which includes songs from Sophie Ellis Bexter...
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Couch Potato Pickings | ABBA the Movie
So, it’s now the third day of the Easter weekend and if you spent Friday and Saturday having the time of your life then you’ll probably have also spent too much money money money, and will need to...
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Couch Potato Pickings | My Best Friend’s Wedding and funny musical moments in...
This scene from My Best Friend’s Wedding is one of my five favourite funny musical moments in film. These are the other four: One of the four clips above shares something in common with My Best...
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Couch Potato Pickings | Sweet Home Alabama, and other films based on song titles
The classic 1974 song Sweet Home Alabama was a controversial response by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd to Southern Man and Alabama – two songs from the 1970s by Neil Young that express anti-southern...
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Couch Potato Pickings | Mamma Mia! My my, how can I resist you?
Ten reasons why I can’t resist this film: 1. The Abba soundtrack. Thank you, Abba, for the music. There’s nothing more infectious than an Abba song. 2. Meryl Streep as super trouper Donna is the...
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Couch Potato Pickings | The Player, and movie cameos
Do you have a favourite movie cameo moment? It’s the slew of cameos from dozens of stars that make this Robert Altman satire on Hollywood the memorable movie it is. Julia Roberts, Burt Reynolds,...
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Win the Two Disc Special Edition of Mamma Mia!
If you haven’t yet seen Mamma Mia! then where have you been? It was the biggest film sensation of 2008! And now, it’s back in 2009 for a two disc ultimate party edition packed with loads of fabulous...
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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 | Love Is All You Need – Pierce goes for a romantic encore (but...
Danish auteur Susanne Bier is best known for turning out award-courting, art-house fare such as her 2010 Oscar-winner In a Better World. She’s let her hair down, though, with Love Is All You Need, a...
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