Tag Archives: Steve Martin
HDTV Movie Premieres: June 25-July 1

HDTV Movie Premieres: June 25-July 1

The A-Team: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Sunday. There’s something absurdly compelling about this outrageously ludicrous update of the dopey ‘80s TV hit. The original was named after four hired guns who were veterans of the Vietnam war on the run from the military for a crime they didn’t commit. Fast-forward 25 years and the set-up’s the […]

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Wild and Crazy Quote of the Day

Wild and Crazy Quote of the Day

Steve Martin, who stars in Sunday’s Sky Movies HD debut of It’s Complicated, has been deemed so boring in an on-stage interview that the organisers refunded the audience’s money. It seems there was too much yakkety-yak about Martin’s art world interests and not enough about his movie career, so much so that organisers said the […]

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HDTV Movie Premieres: December 4-10

HDTV Movie Premieres: December 4-10

Philadelphia: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Jonathan Demme’s tepid potboiler with a conscience stars Tom Hanks, in Oscar-winning form, as a hotshot lawyer who is fired from his heavyweight firm because he has contracted Aids — or so he claims when he hires homophobic, streetwise attorney Denzel Washington to take senior partner Jason Robards to […]

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