Couch Potato Pickings | What’s Love Got to Do with It
Tennessee-born Anna Mae Bullock began her music career in the 1960s after meeting blues musician Ike Turner. She went on to marry him, and changed her name to Tina Turner as her music career took off....
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Angela Bassett got the role of course – a splendid performance which won her an Oscar nomination, but guess which other actresses were in the running for this 1993 film. Actresses with a diverse mix...
View ArticleFilm review | This Means War – Reese Witherspoon is in the way of Chris Pine...
This Means War gleefully stirs together the spy caper and rom-com genres, and with Charlie’s Angel director McG at the helm the resulting mash-up is everything you’d expect: brash, loud and...
View ArticleDVD review | This Means War – Spy buddies Chris & Tom turn into rivals for Reese
This Means War gleefully stirs together the spy caper and rom-com genres, and with Charlie’s Angel director McG at the helm the resulting mash-up is everything you’d expect: brash, loud and...
View ArticleFilm review | Olympus Has Fallen – Beefy Butler saves the day when the White...
Heavily armed terrorists seize control of a landmark building and only a lone maverick lawman can save the day. No, it’s not the Nakatomi Tower and Bruce Willis’s NYPD cop John McClane in Die Hard but...
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