Steve Carell

Only Fools and Horses to hit the US

TV Gossip

31 Jan 2012

'Only Fools and Horses' is set for a US remake. Television network ABC has confirmed plans to make a pilot of the classic British comedy, which will be written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, who previously worked on the long-running hospital…

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Interesting observational comedy smothered by rom-com farce and sentimentality

16 Sep 2011

(12A) 118min Suburbia, modern day. Emily (Julianne Moore) tells husband Cal (Steve Carell) that she wants a divorce. Cal agrees to move and hits the local bar. After a period of drunken self-pity, local lothario Jacob (Ryan Gosling) takes him under…

Despicable Me

6 Oct 2010

(U) 94min Universal have finally hit back big in the animation stakes with Despicable Me, a good-humoured, accessible comedy that never quite reaches the classic heights of Pixar’s Up!, or even DreamWorks’ equally brilliant How To Train Your Dragon…

Dinner for Schmucks

Remake of 1998 film doesn't echo sentiments of original

23 Aug 2010

On paper Jay Meet the Parents Roach’s new film sounds appetising. But this remake of Francis Veber’s passable 1998 French comedy Le dîner de cons squanders a cast headed by Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, and supported by Lucy Punch, David Walliams, Chris…

Steve Carell wants a subtle exit

TV Gossip

7 Jul 2010

Steve Carell hopes to make a "subtle" exit from 'The Office'. The actor has revealed his departure from the show - the US version of the hit UK TV programme created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant - is likely be a quiet event rather than a…

Steve Carell quits Office

TV Gossip

29 Jun 2010

Steve Carell has confirmed he is quitting 'The Office'. The 47-year-old funnyman - who has played Michael Scott in the US version of the hit British sitcom since 2005 - says he will leave the show following the 2010-2011 series. He told Us Weekly…

Steve Carell to leave Office?

TV Gossip

29 Apr 2010

Steve Carell is set to leave 'The Office'. The actor - who plays Michael Scott, the overbearing boss of a paper mill, in the US version of the comedy show originally written by Ricky Gervais - has revealed he plans to leave the series after its next…

Date Night

29 Mar 2010

(15) 88min Not since Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger hooked up in Blake Edwards’ 1987 comedy Blind Date has there been such a disastrous romantic night out as the one seen in Shawn Levy’s new film. Comedy royalty Steve Carell and Tina Fey play Phil and…

Get Smart

21 Aug 2008

After the financial/emotional excremental woes of Evan Almighty and Dan in Real Life, comic Steve Carell shores up his career with a safe property: Peter Segal’s tent-pole blockbuster revamp of 1960s spy spoof Get Smart. Maxwell Smart (Carell) is an…

The Rock's sweet Carell kiss

Celebrity Gossip

4 Aug 2008

The Rock says kissing Steve Carell was like the first time he ate a "warm chocolate fudge brownie". The former WWE wrestler, real name Dwayne Johnson, locks lips with comedian Steve in new movie 'Get Smart' and admits the experience was more…

Summer Film Special - Best of the rest

22 May 2008

The Incredible Hulk The big angry green killing machine gets another bite at the superhero film franchise cherry (after the box office disaster of Ang Lee’s Hulk). This version is adapted by the folk behind the X-Men films, directed by Louis Leterrier…

Horton Hears A Who!

13 Mar 2008

ANIMATION (U) 86min The magical rhyming whimsy of Dr Seuss was never more resistible than when rendered in live-action by comedians Jim Carrey (The Grinch) or Mike Myers (The Cat in the Hat). But technology has finally caught up with Seuss’s…

Dan In Real Life

4 Jan 2008

COMEDY/ROMANCE (PG) 98min Written and directed by Peter Hedges (About a Boy, Pieces of April), Dan in Real Life is firmly rooted in warm, middle-class family values and every bit as predictable and inoffensive as a TV sitcom. It’s the story of Dan…

Evan Almighty

1 Aug 2007

That the most expensive comedy ever made should be a sequel to a disposable Jim Carrey timewaster, with Carrey not even featuring in the cast, suggests an error of biblical proportions in the judgement of Universal executives...