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Couch Potato Pickings – Rocky or Rocky Horror?
Oscar-winning boxing drama or cult comedy horror musical? These two movies couldn’t be more different from each other, but they do have one thing in common – they’re both great for a workout. If 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 Best view | Mickey Rourke bounces back from the ropes with The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke was out for the count in Hollywood, but with his gutsy performance as a washed-up wrestler in, yes, The Wrestler he has bounced back from the ropes in triumph. It’s an astonishing...
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News Muse – Heading towards a New Moon and feeling darn fangtastic!
Devastation and despair! Haven’t you heard? Hugh Jackman has turned down hosting the 2010 Academy Awards. ‘Whyyy,’ you howl? ‘But, he was such a brilliant host,’ I wail. Tragically, it is because he...
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The Fighter – Knockout performances make David O Russell’s boxing drama an...
Do true stories make the best boxing movies? In the red corner, Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic Raging Bull, based on the life of middleweight champ Jake La Motta, comes out swinging in the cause of...
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Couch Potato’s three steps to predicting this year’s Oscar winners
First, check out ‘How to win an Oscar – some simple rules‘. Second, remind yourself of the winning films of yesteryear. Sky Movies Showcase is showing all of these Oscar-winning movies – and more –...
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DVD review | Warrior – Edgerton and Hardy pack a powerful punch as sibling...
Take the underdog fantasy of Rocky and multiply it by two, add an even more dysfunctional family than the one in The Fighter, throw in Mixed Martial Arts and you have the formula for rousing fight...
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Top 10 sports movies: from blood and sweat to glitter and spandex (Part 1)
Olympic fever is gripping us here at Movie Talk HQ. So we’ve decided to put together a top ten of great sports movies – as chosen by guest contributor Shreya Patel. 10: Happy Gilmore Chubbs: Golf’s no...
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