Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel to reprise Simpsons role

TV Gossip

4 May 2012

Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman will make guest appearances in a forthcoming 'The Simpsons' episode. The 'New Girl' actress will reprise her role as Mary Spuckler - the daughter of Cleetus who Bart Simpson came close to marrying in season 19…

Emma Watson to join Doctor Who?

TV Gossip

7 Feb 2012

Emma Watson is the fans' favourite to replace Karen Gillan on 'Doctor Who'. With the redhead actress set to depart her current role as the Time Lord's assistant Amy Pond later this year, viewers of the BBC One sci-fi show are keen to see the 'Harry…

Zooey Deschanel to feature on M. Ward's new album

Music Gossip

24 Jan 2012

Zooey Deschanel is set to feature on M. Ward's next album. The singer-and-actress will lend her vocal talents to her She And Him bandmate's sixth solo record 'A Wasteland Companion', which was recorded with 18 different musicians in eight studios…

Queen of quirk Zooey Deschanel stars in formulaic geeky comedy New Girl

The sitcom falls in neatly with The Big Bang Theory, Scrubs et al

5 Jan 2012

Adorkability. ‘Jess Daly’ has this in spades, and it’s the x-factor that led US executives to immediately order up a bunch of extra episodes after New Girl (Channel 4, Fri 6 Jan, 8.35pm) became the Fox network’s highest-rated autumn sitcom debut in a…

Your Highness starring Danny McBride is a load of fantasy rubbish

James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman fail to improve it

14 Apr 2011

(15) 102min Before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy heralded a resurgence of the ‘fantasy quest’ movie, this much-derided genre enjoyed a kind of golden age in the late 1980s, when Labyrinth, The Princess Bride and Willow captured the…

She & Him - Volume 2

29 Mar 2010

(Double Six) Brimming with classic 60s girl-pop and California country-rock, the second instalment from improbable couple She (indie film icon Zooey Deschanel) & Him (alt-folk troubadour M Ward) is another worthy offering for fans of The Beach Boys…

Zooey Deschanel marries

Celebrity Gossip

21 Sep 2009

Zooey Deschanel has got married. The '(500) Days of Summer' actress tied the knot with Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard at a private ceremony near Seattle, Washington, on Saturday (19.09.09). Only close friends - including her 'Your…

(500) Days of Summer

Back to front story romantic comedy

21 Aug 2009

(500) Days of Summer promises more than it delivers, regrettably. This factory made YouTube generation rom-com kicks off at breakneck speed delivering a drole reconstruction of young man Tom’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) unruly love affair with young girl…

Zooey Deschanel says no to marriage

Celebrity Gossip

18 Jul 2009

Zooey Deschanel doesn't believe in marriage. The actress-and-singer refuses to commit to one relationship for the rest of her life and believes people should experience a variety of lovers. She said: "People don't have to get married anymore.

Gigantic

11 Jun 2009

ROMANCE/COMEDY Having done morose to such great comic effect as a mute Goth kid in Little Miss Sunshine and zealous to fine dramatic impact as the phoney preacher in There Will Be Blood, boyishly good looking American actor Paul Dano graduates from…

Singles & Downloads

30 Oct 2008

You know times are tough when you have to resort to Tony Christie to get you through the day. OK, the climate’s shagged and the banks are collapsing, but it’s the piffling amount of brilliant tracks that’s really getting my goat this issue. What? Us…

The Happening

19 Jun 2008

DRAMA/SCI-FI (15) 90min The best and worst of M Night Shyamalan’s questionable talents are on display in The Happening, but after The Village and the dire Lady in The Water, it’s good to see Shyamalan hitting any sort of form at all. The apocalyptic…