Daily Archives: October 22, 2010

Review - RED

  By brogen | October 22, 2010 - 9:57 am | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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When a group of hit men target retired CIA ‘analyst’ Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), it is up to him to try and find out why. Along the way Frank gathers his crush, Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) and his retired colleagues Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) to get to the bottom of the mystery. It has been a while since Bruce Willis has been properly on form. This year’s Cop Out was just an example of how a good idea goes bad. Thankfully, RED is a good idea that works out. Willis is loose and funny, his banter with Mary-Louise Parker – the clerk who mails him his pension cheques – is sweet and natural. There is also a fantastic fight scene between Willis and Karl Urban – as CIA agent William Cooper – that is slightly reminiscent of Fight Club and Willis’s glory days as John … There’s more →

Sweary’s Jaw

  By Lisa McInerney | October 22, 2010 - 8:30 am | Celebs, Gossip, Sweary's Jaw, The Culch
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Surreptitiously willing those Glee girls to put their damn pants back on, so you don’t have to. So here’s the deal-ee-oh. I know I’ve been rather quiet recently re: the scandalous faffery of the more recognisable of our world citizens, but it’s only because I’ve really stopped giving a knob. I have other things to be doing, like tweeting about how shit everything is, or growing my fingernails. I’m only writing this because I worry that someone out there might actually care if I don’t. How could I tell if Lindsay Lohan wasn’t kept teetering on the brink instead of plummeting over it by googling Oirish websites for mentions of herself? HOW WOULD I KNOW? (Hello Lindsay, by the way! I’m sure that the nasty rumour about recently-single Christina Aguilera hooking up with Sam Ronson is complete hokey. In the words of the great Cher - from Clueless, that is, … There’s more →