Trainspotting at 25 and some facts you probably didn t know about the legendary Scots film
Trainspotting is 25 and here s some facts you never knew about the now legendary Scots film
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Reel Dad: Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in The Father
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Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins star in The Father. Sony Pictures Classics / Contributed photo
As children, we wonder who our parents may become as they age. We may be curious what we will need to do, and be, to help our folks when duties to care shift generations. And we will likely hope that we can remain patient no matter how challenging the experience may become.
Movies like to explore this natural passage. Melvyn Douglas and Gene Hackman were Oscar nominated in the 1970s for playing an aging father dealing with a younger son in “I Never Sang for My Father.” A decade later, Jack Lemmon and Ted Danson covered similar ground in “Da.” Twenty years later, Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman shared the burden of caring for an aging father in “Savages” while Christopher Plummer and Ewan MacGregor discovered what generations can share in “Beginners.”
looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see?
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In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk and took ownership of Lucasfilm Ltd., the company that he’d spent decades building. Disney wasn’t paying all that money for Lucas productions like
Howard The Duck or
Tucker: The Man And His Dream or even
Strange Magic. Instead, the Mouse House flexed its world-domination powers to take full control of the
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Tonight s top telly tips include It’s a Sin, The Late Late Show, Graham Norton, Abba on the Beeb and new Netflix movie Malcolm & Marie . . .
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It’s a Sin, 9.00pm, Channel 4
It’s taking a lot of self-restraint, but I’m sticking to watching this super drama on a week-by-week basis. It’s such a treat - so I treat it as such.
We’re now up to March 1986, and Diana Ross is in the middle of a
Chain Reaction. Meanwhile, the Pink Palace flatmates start to find their place in the world.
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He said: “A huge thank you to all of you who have joined and supported Doddie Aid. In particular, our tireless District management teams of weel kent faces who have kept us galvanised over the last month, and the army of fundraisers who have just dog walked, run, rowed, cycled and even cold water swum us past the £1,000,000 mark. You are all amazing!” The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation was established after Doddie, the former Scotland and British & Lions rugby player, revealed he had MND in 2017. The Foundation raises funds for MND research, to investigate potential cures and meaningful treatments. It also supports people living with MND, to enable them to live as fulfilled lives as possible.