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Cumming: 'Dressing in drag was torture' -
7 April 2011
-Alan Cumming is urging men everywhere to try dressing in drag after playing a transvestite on TV and gaining a new-found respect for the "torture" women endure to look good.-Cumming used "smelly" creams to get rid of his body hair and donned make-up and tight dresses
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Cumming to play Spider-Man villain -
29 June 2009
-Scottish actor Alan Cumming has been confirmed as Norm Osborn/The Green Goblin in Julie Taymor's ambitious new Spider-Man musical.-
-The actor will play the villain of SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway next February (10), opposite Evan Rachel Wood, who will po
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wolverine, wolverine 25 February 2004
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The Most Christmassy Of Christmas Films 27 March 2009
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WE'RE DEFINITELY NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE... 26 September 2008
Alan Cumming - filmography
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The Smurfs - 3D Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays
Director: Raja Gosnell
Certificate: 
SCOOBY-DOO director Raja Gosnell takes the helm for this 3D live action/CGI comedy based on the popular characters created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (aka Pierre Culliford). In their race to escape the malevolent wizard Gargamel, the little blue forest dwellers find themselves suddenly transported ..read more »
 
68%
from 612 members
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The Runaway
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Keith Allen, Burn Gorman, Alan Cumming
Director: David Richards
Certificate: 
Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when Cathy is forced to protect Madge from a violent attack by a ..read more »
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from 741 members
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The Smurfs - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays
Director: Raja Gosnell
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SCOOBY-DOO director Raja Gosnell takes the helm for this 3D live action/CGI comedy based on the popular characters created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (aka Pierre Culliford). In their race to escape the malevolent wizard Gargamel, the little blue forest dwellers find themselves suddenly transported ..read more »
65%
from 3,062 members
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The Runaway - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Keith Allen, Burn Gorman, Alan Cumming
Director: David Richards
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Compelling six-part drama THE RUNAWAY is based on the gritty crime novel by best-selling author Martina Cole. Set in both London's Soho and in New York City, the serial spans the 1960s and 1970s, following the interweaving stories of Cathy Connor (Joanna Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (Jack O'..read more »
72%
from 410 members
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The Smurfs
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays
Director: Raja Gosnell
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When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before ..read more »
68%
from 6,758 members
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Burlesque - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Dianna Agron, David Walton, Terrence Jenkins
Director: Steve Antin
Certificate: 
Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali, a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a neo-burlesque nightclub in Los Angeles. Situated in a regal old theater that's still dazzling despite having fallen into disrepair, The Burlesque Lounge is the kind of club ..read more »
67%
from 4,872 members
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The Tempest
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Alfred Molina
Director: Julie Taymor
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-..read more »
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from 1,429 member
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Burlesque
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Dianna Agron, David Walton, Terrence Jenkins
Director: Steve Antin
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Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to L.A. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theatre that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress. Burlesque's outrageous ..read more »
69%
from 15,808 members
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Sir Billi
(2010)
Starring: Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, Miriam Margolyes
Director: Sascha Hartmann
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A retired veterinarian living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he's a dog, an Admiral who's afraid of the water and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.
62%
from 8 members
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Boogie Woogie
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Sidney Cole, Michael Culkin
Director: Duncan Ward
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Boogie Woogie is a comedy of manners, its cast of characters devouring each other in a small world awash with big money.
Set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene, it casts an eye over the appetites and morality of some of its major players. Dealers, collectors,..read more »
43%
from 823 members
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Dare
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Ashley Springer
Director: Adam Salky
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In high school, what kind of person did you dare to be: risk-taking and lustful, melancholy and confused or simply safe and over-achieving? "Dare" follows three very different teenagers through the last semester of high school. There are Alexa, the overachieving good girl who longs to break out of ..read more »
51%
from 535 members
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Tin Man
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson, Alan Cumming
Director: Nick Willing
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Small-town waitress DG has always felt like an outsider and experienced strange, recurring visions of a magical storm. However, dreams soon become reality when the evil witch Azkadellia transports DG and her parents to the Outer Zone. This sci-fi miniseries offers an alternative take on the classic ..read more »
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from 3,481 members
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Gray Matters
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Molly Shannon, Alan Cumming, Bridget Moynahan
Director: Sue Kramer
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Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Thomas Cavanagh) are inseparable. They live together, take ballroom dancing classes, and jog in the park together. They'd make a very attractive couple were it not for the fact that they're brother and sister. In a bright and beautiful version of Manhattan, where ..read more »
53%
from 3,505 members
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Tin Man - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson, Alan Cumming
Director: Nick Willing
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Small-town waitress DG has always felt like an outsider and experienced strange, recurring visions of a magical storm. However, dreams soon become reality when the evil witch Azkadellia transports DG and her parents to the Outer Zone. This sci-fi miniseries offers an alternative take on the classic ..read more »
61%
from 1,404 member
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Ghost Writer
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Alan Cumming, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche
Director: Alan Cumming
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Jonathan Vandermark, is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a penny to his name. When one man, Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John's charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.
33%
from 2,288 members
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Full Grown Men
(2006)
Starring: Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming
Director: David Munro
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Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro's whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera, a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree boyhood when his only occupation was playing with his action figures. Desperate to escape the confines of adulthood ..read more »
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from 1 member
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E18hteen
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Thea Gill, Alan Cumming
Director: Richard Bell
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Pip is a young street kid trying to deal with life in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives a tape of his grandfather's World War II memoirs which awakens the ghosts of a long lost time and place. His grandfather graphically narrates the story of the day he turned eighteen, fleeing ..read more »
48%
from 440 members
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The Ant Bully
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Alan Cumming, Zach Tyler Eisen
Director: John A. Davis
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Watch now: £2.49
A young boy learns the importance of teamwork and gains self-confidence in this animated feature written and directed by John A. Davis (JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS), and based on the book by John Nickle. Misfit Lucas (Zach Taylor Eisen) doesn't have any friends and suffers daily at the hands of the ..read more »
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from 11,970 members
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Ant Bully - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Alan Cumming, Zach Tyler Eisen
Director: John A. Davis
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Watch now: £2.49
A young boy learns the importance of teamwork and gains self-confidence in this animated feature written and directed by John A. Davis (JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS), and based on the book by John Nickle. Misfit Lucas (Zach Taylor Eisen) doesn't have any friends and suffers daily at the hands of the ..read more »
64%
from 480 members
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Sweet Land
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith
Director: Ali Selim
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
When mail-order bride Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf, her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers makes her an object of suspicion in the small town, and she and Olaf are forbidden to marry. Alone and adrift, Inge goes to live with the ..read more »
54%
from 766 members
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X-Men 2 - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
Director: Bryan Singer
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The X-Men led by Professor Xavier once again return to save the world from a group of mutant creatures. Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President, Stryker sets out to capture the pupils at the school for the 'gifted' and Magneto has escaped from his cell and is out to reek havoc...
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from 2,664 members
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X-Men 2
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
Director: Bryan Singer
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The X-Men led by Professor Xavier once again return to save the world from a group of mutant creatures. Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President, Stryker sets out to capture the pupils at the school for the 'gifted' and Magneto has escaped from his cell and is out to reek havoc...
70%
from 57,474 members
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Spy Kids
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Robert Patrick, Alexa Vega
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Gregorio and Ingrid are the two greatest secret agents the world has ever known: masters of disguise, mavens of invention, able to stop wars before they even start. Working for separate countries, they are sent to eliminate their most dangerous enemy...each other. But in an exotic corner of the ..read more »
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from 8,381 members
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Spy Kids - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Robert Patrick, Alexa Vega
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
When the notorious husband-and-wife spy team, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino), is kidnapped by the children's show host Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming), the two Cortez children are the only ones who have the right skills and the insider know-how to help. Together Carmen ..read more »
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from 190 members
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Company Man
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Alan Cumming, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas McGrath
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
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COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his ..read more »
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from 227 members
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Get Carter
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook
Director: Stephen Kay
Certificate:
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Jack Carter's brother is dead. And Jack (Sylvester Stallone) wants to know why. A Las Vegas mob enforcer, he carefully packs his guns and sets off for Seattle by train. At the funeral, he discovers his brother was full of alcohol when he died in a car accident. But according to his niece, Doreen (..read more »
49%
from 1,861 member
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The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Mark Addy, Joan Collins
Director: Brian Levant
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Kids will enjoy the dinosaurs, gaudy prehistoric decor, and cartoon humour of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas; but adults will find fewer morsels of entertainment, although the sly performance of Alan Cumming (Eyes Wide Shut) as the Great Gazoo, an alien sent to Earth to observe human mating ..read more »
54%
from 711 members
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Plunkett And Macleane
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler
Director: Jake Scott
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Will Plunkett (Carlyle) is a common thief who teams up with aristocrat James Macleane to rob from the rich, using their combined social connections and criminal knowhow to become "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when Macleane falls in love with the daughter of one of their wealthy victims, things ..read more »
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from 2,909 members
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Annie
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Alicia Morton, Audra McDonald
Director: Rob Marshall
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Two features. ANNIE, a re-make of the classic tale of the orphan Annie who has lived all her life in a home run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel woman. The billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, decides to look after an orphan for two weeks over Christmas, and guess who comes to stay... Plus OLIVER TWIST.
62%
from 1,867 member
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Buddy
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming
Director: Caroline Thompson
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A gentle, family-oriented dramatization of the autobiography ("Animals Are My Hobby") of daffy Gertrude Lintz (Rene Russo,) a softhearted, softheaded 1920s New York socialite who transformed her upstate mansion into a personal menagerie containing cats, dogs, birds, chimps, and the titular baby ..read more »
53%
from 218 members
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Spiceworld The Movie
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: The Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore
Director: Bob Spiers
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One of the reasons that the Spice Girls remain so much fun is that in the great British tradition, they don't take themselves too seriously. Like The Beatles before them, the girls are more than happy to take pot-shots at their own manufactured image, something that Spiceworld: The Movie revels in. ..read more »
49%
from 1,026 member
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Emma - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
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from 49 members
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Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
67%
from 7,177 members
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GoldenEye
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Famke Janssen
Director: Martin Campbell
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Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring ..read more »
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from 26,241 members
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Second Best
(1994)
Starring: Chris Menges, William Hurt, Chris Cleary Miles
Director: Chris Menges
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Graham Holt is a lonely middle-aged man who runs a postal substation in a small village in England. He decides to adopt a son. James is the troubled youth he gets with the assistance of social worker Debbie. James has been in an orphanage for years since his mother committed suicide. He adores his ..read more »
72%
from 4 members
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Bernard and the Genie
(1991)
Starring: Lenny Henry, John Gabriel, Alan Cumming
Director: Paul Weiland
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A genie (Lenny Henry) is punished by an evil wizard by being confined to a lamp somewhere in Arabia. 2000 years later in England Bernard Bottle (Alan Cumming) an Art dealer, who has just been sacked by his nasty and greedy boss (Rowan Atkinson) and then discovered his girlfriend has gone off with ..read more »
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from 119 members
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...this film is even better than the first. wolverine is again brilliant and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler is amazing. a stroke of genius casting him. this is a great film. th...
