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Stubborn son Jeff Bridges

Celebrity Gossip

20 Feb 2010

Jeff Bridges didn't want to please his dad by becoming an actor. The 'Crazy Heart' star - who has been nominated for Best Actor at the forthcoming Academy Awards - admits he was reluctant to follow his parents Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges into…

Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart

(4 stars)17 Feb 2010

(15) 111min It’s another day in another shit hick town for country and western singer-songwriter Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges). The music business isn’t what it used to be; his schedule now consists of bowling hall and the back rooms of bars. Between the…

Cowboy blues - Crazy Heart, Tender Mercies and country music on film

Crazy Heart, Tender Mercies and country music on film

17 Feb 2010

Crazy Heart is a tale of alcoholism, love, redemption and country music. It has a healthy lineage writes Paul Dale

Jeff Bridges

Lazy Jeff Bridges

Celebrity Gossip

15 Feb 2010

Jeff Bridges admits he is a "pretty lazy guy". The Oscar nominated actor - who is tipped to win Best Actor at this year's awards for his role as a country singer Bad Blake in 'Crazy Heart' - said although he enjoys his work he is always "avoiding…

2010 preview: Great expectations

2010 preview: Great expectations

7 Jan 2010

Favourite things are ending, exciting things are beginning and old things are coming back. 2010 is already shaping up to be a thrilling year and here are the 30 good reasons why we can’t wait

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges' brush with death

Celebrity Gossip

1 Nov 2009

Jeff Bridges nearly died filming an elaborate stunt. The actor was shooting an action scene in Ridley Scott's 1996 film 'White Squall' when he inhaled so much water and jet fumes his body starting "shutting down". The 59-year-old star recalled…

The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare At Goats

(3 stars)30 Oct 2009

(15) 95min Grant Heslov’s trippy satire is a fun if inconsequential experience that boasts a stellar cast in good form. Inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book, the film ‘lifts the lid’ on a US military experiment to create ‘psychic…

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

COMEDY Toby Young’s semi-scandalous memoir about the period the gobby English journo spent carousing with the rich and famous, while working at Vanity Fair magazine in New York is given a mainstream movie makeover with this enjoyable enough romantic…

Iron Man

Iron Man

(4 stars)8 May 2008

SUPERHERO (12A) 125min The mighty world of Marvel superheroes continues to receive the big screen treatment with this blockbuster adaptation of just about the last of the comic book publisher’s original creations from the 1960s (Matthew Vaughn’s…

Surf's Up

Surf's Up

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

A reasonable improvement on the heavy-handed environmentalism of last year’s hit Happy Feet, Ash Brannon and Chris Buck’s animation is a colourful parody of surfer movies and Stacy Peralta’s 2004 documentary Riding Giants in particular.

Tideland

(15) 120min

(2 stars)1 Sep 2006

DRAMA/FANTASY Poor Terry Gilliam. Having seen his dream Don Quixote project get lost in La Mancha, he then struggled to get his vision for The Brothers Grimm on-screen. Tired of the shenanigans of producers and financiers he decided to make a small…

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