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Gillian Anderson and Simon Pegg in 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People'

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2 Oct 2008

Screenwriter, producer and director Bob Weide has spent his two score and ten odd years genuflecting at the altar of American comedy. A foremost knowledge on the life and work of the Marx Brothers (along with our own Simon Louvish) and, arguably, the…

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

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…

'Beautiful geek' Megan Fox

Celebrity Gossip

29 Sep 2008

Simon Pegg says Megan Fox is the "most beautiful geek" he has ever met. The 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' actor - who stars alongside Megan in the film - was surprised to find the 'Transformers' star is as much of a nerd as he…

Chris Martin

Chris Martin's Pegg track

Celebrity Gossip

15 Jun 2008

Simon Pegg has written a song with Chris Martin. The 'Hot Fuzz' actor and the Coldplay frontman penned the track, titled 'A+E' together, to poke fun at 'Talk' from Coldplay's album 'X+Y'. Pegg jokingly said: "The song we wrote is called 'A+E'.

The Good Night

The Good Night

17 Jan 2008

COMEDY/DRAMA/ROMANCE (15) 93min Not above cashing-in on family connections, writer/director Jake Paltrow’s romantic comedy casts his older sister Gwyneth as the dowdy, disaffected partner of commercial jingle writer Gary (Martin Freeman). A kind…

MySpace casts ten for new Pegg film

29 Oct 2007

A £1 million movie, dubbed the UK’s first user-generated feature film, has cast ten hopefuls after they auditioned on MySpace. The romantic comedy Faintheart, which stars Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg, is based on the story of a sales assistant…

Simon Pegg to beam up in new Star Trek movie

15 Oct 2007

British comic Simon Pegg is to play Scotty in the new Star Trek movie. The Shaun of the Dead star was asked to join the crew by director JJ Abrams after the Lost creator worked with Pegg on Mission Impossible III. The dour Scottish chief engineer…

Hot Fuzz

(15) 120min

12 Feb 2007

COMEDY/SPOOF It is slightly depressing that the highest grossing British films of last year and this were, and will be, television spin-offs. Last year Sacha Baron Cohen delivered up the better-than-we-probably-deserve feature film Borat, and now…

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