She’s American, in an Italian named musical, with songs from the pen of a group of Swedes, set in a lemon grove in Greece! But, putting all that international mish-mash aside, we’re all going to be there when the movie Mamma Mia hits the big screens in the UK and the USA this weekend. We’ll be witness to Meryl Streep doing the high splits and Pierce Brosnan competing for the love of his long lost daughter!

With the music of the popular Swedish 1970’s pop group ABBA and the Hollywood cast of a ’slutty’ Streep, a very ‘unBond’ Brosnan and a ‘clumsy’ read more ....

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The world of movie and television was stunned today with the sad news that Isle of Wight born, Anthony Minghella had passed away after an operation at Charing Cross Hospital, London.

The Oscar winning film maker died of a hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday just a week after an operation to remove a growth from his neck.

Tributes poured in from people as diverse as movie star Jude Law, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the president of Botswana.

Among Anthony’s movie projects were The English Patient, Breaking and Entering and Cold Mountain.

Jude Law who had appeared read more ....

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