The Best View – X Files sceptic
The X Files: I Want to Believe I never did get around to watching the X Files on TV. Yes, I know the show ran for nine years and became such an inescapable part of the pop cultural furniture that you...
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Jaws and other well known movie themes
Couch Potato Pickings That Jaws music has to be one of the best known film themes, what do you think? Here are some other classic movie themes: Psycho Halloween James Bond E.T. Star Wars Rocky Brief...
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The Railway Children, and great lines from movies
Couch Potato Pickings Whenever I see that a screen adaptation of E Nesbit’s Railway Children is showing on TV (and let’s face it, today’s film and the 2000 TV remake are on a lot), I just can’t resist...
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DVD review | Paul – Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s geeky Brits take ET for a ride
Writer-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have already delivered a pair of hysterical genre spoofs in Shaun of the Dead (zombie horror) and Hot Fuzz (buddy-cop action). With Paul, they turn their...
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Film review | Super 8 – JJ Abrams 70s-set sci-fi mystery is the best movie...
JJ Abrams, creator of Alias and Lost, pays homage to the films of his mentor Steven Spielberg with a terrific sci-fi mystery that throws together elements of Close Encounters, ET and The Goonies to...
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Earth to Echo | Film review – Family-friendly sci-fi throwback to the 1980s –...
A trio of 13-year-old boys and a token girl embark on a quest to help a stranded alien creature evade sinister government agents and return home. Sound familiar? Yes, director Dave Green’s Earth to...
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