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Posted by Team Boxwish about 1 year ago
With romantic onscreen pairings such as Cameron Diaz and Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, 2006’s The Holiday is the perfect way to banish any winter blues. It tells the story of two unlucky-in-love women, LA workaholic Amanda (Diaz) and unassuming Surrey girl, Iris (Winslet) who swap houses for the Christmas holidays and manage to find love on opposite sides of the pond. Taken in its most literal meaning, their holiday is a break from their jobs and their homes, but in a wider sense it is a holiday from themselves. They are completely out of their comfort zones – on foreign soil, surrounded by strangers and given the time and space to address some of the mental and emotional baggage cluttering their lives. That both achieve their happy endings isn’t surprising in a feel-good rom-com, but with such gutsy commitment to change and love it is what they deserve. So, if you fancy injecting some of that holiday spirit into your life, read on for Boxwish’s top five ways to live the movie.
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Posted by Team Boxwish about 1 year ago
Guy Ritchie has had two hit films. The first, 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was set in London. 2000’s follow-up Snatch was also set in London. Spot the similarity. Now after an ill-fated jaunt to the Mediterranean for Swept Away and the Isle of Man for Revolver, Ritchie is not only back in his home town with his fifth screen offering, RocknRolla – he’s made it the star of his show.
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Live the Movie – Step Brothers
Posted by Team Boxwish about 1 year ago
PLOT SPOILERS Running about onscreen as boisterous man children Brennan and Dale, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are the very definition of arrested development in comedy caper, Step Brothers. Though the pair is 39 and 40-years-old, they’ve never properly grown up, both still enjoying a never-ending childhood and living at home with their single parents. That is until Dale (Reilly) and Brennan’s (Ferrell) parents meet, fall in love and get married, creating a new family dynamic that sees the dysfunctional duo form a typically juvenile love-hate relationship. But away from the pratfalls and gross out humour (and there’s certainly plenty of it), there are oodles of ideas in Step Brothers that we can embrace and introduce into our own lives. Whether it’s the customary moralising message (“be true to yourself kids”), the infectious energy and spirited optimism of Dale and Brennan or any of the many hobbies they enjoy, Step Brothers is a non-stop ride of possible pursuits. So buckle up and hold on tight as we bring you our favourite five ways of celebrating the child within.
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Posted by Team Boxwish about 1 year ago
Searching for treasure on film is often the quest of kids (The Goonies) or sea bound scoundrels (Pirates of the Caribbean), but it gets a glamorous makeover in romantic action/ adventure, Fool’s Gold. Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson re-unite after 2003’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days as separated married couple Benjamin “Finn” Finnegan and Tess, who find their paths cross during Finn’s quest for 40 chests of treasure known as the “Queen’s Dowry”. While we’re not going to spoil the plot and reveal whether they get their hands on the coveted goodies, there are some other riches very much on show throughout the movie…
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Get the Las Vegas look from Ocean's Eleven
Posted by Team Boxwish about 1 year ago
Just look at the line-up. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon – from the very beginning Ocean’s Eleven was destined to become a Hollywood handbook on screen style. A film costume designer might expect to dress one or two stars of such wattage on a movie, but to dress all of them for a single one? Costumier Jeffrey Kurland certainly had his work cut out. He had a pretty impressive CV prior to his work on Ocean’s Eleven, having won a BAFTA in 1988 and been Oscar-nominated in 1995. But it was surely Erin Brockovich, his previous collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh and leading lady, Julia Roberts for which he picked up a Costume Designers Guild Award that secured him the gig on the star-studded remake of the 60s Rat Pack caper.
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Top ten American football movies
Posted by Team Boxwish about 1 year ago
He’s known for being smooth, suave and sophisticated, but Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney gets thoroughly muddy as American football player, Dodge Connolly in sports comedy, Leatherheads. As the captain of the Duluth Bulldogs, a professional team struggling for results during the 1920s, it’s up to Connolly to resuscitate his squad’s season. It’s a tale loosely based on real-life and as per many sports movies, boosts an underdog spirit, desire for greatness and pulse-racing action. But how does it compare to previous American football classics? That’s what we wanted to know here at Boxwish and we were determined to find out…
