It’s official: Ricky Gervais will resurrect his legendary Office boss and make a David Brent movie. According to the BBC, the flick will follow Brent as he attempts to pursue his dreams of becoming a rock star. Titled Life on the Road, it will go into production next year. Gervais has trotted out Brent a number of times in […]
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Felt again – Muppets Most Wanted review
April 1, 2014 
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By Simon Miraudo April 1, 2014 In 2011, Jim Henson’s long-retired felt friends The Muppets were welcomed back to the big screen warmly by kids and kids-at-heart alike. In 2014, The Muppets’ inevitable sequel is met with all the anticipation of a forgotten appointment: “Oh, was that today?” There are a few possible reasons Muppets […]
Continue readingRicky Gervais considering a David Brent movie
August 23, 2013 0 Comments
Hidden in The Hollywood Reporter‘s recent profile of Ricky Gervais is news that the co-creator of The Office is considering a movie based on its notorious lead character, David Brent. Brent, the “chilled out entertainer” and former Office manager, was recently resurrected by Gervais for a YouTube series, Learn Guitar With David Brent. THR claims Gervais […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Muppets Most Wanted
August 7, 2013 0 Comments
The teaser trailer for Muppets Most Wanted, the sequel to 2011’s The Muppets, has arrived online. Formerly titled The Muppets … Again, it sees your favourite felt characters mistaken for international criminals. Ricky Gervais plays the right-hand-man to the villainous Constantine (a Kermit lookalike), while Ty Burrell stars as the Interpol agent on their tail. […]
Continue readingCheck out Ricky Gervais in The Muppets … Again!
March 5, 2013 0 Comments
Ricky Gervais and everyone’s favourite King Prawn Pepe appear together in a promotional video for the upcoming The Muppets … Again! While not much is said between the two – Gervais is tweeting on his phone while Pepe sighs and generally looks hilarious in a black skivvy and gold chain – it certainly whets our […]
Continue readingTina Fey in talks for Muppets 2
January 9, 2013 0 Comments
Tina Fey is in talks to star opposite Ricky Gervais and a whole bunch of felt in the sequel to The Muppets. According to THR, the upcoming Golden Globes host is in “late-stage negotiations” to join erstwhile GG MC Gervais, as well as Modern Family’s Ty Burrell. The sequel to 2011’s hit Henson reinvention will […]
Continue readingRicky Gervais in talks for The Muppets sequel
December 18, 2012 0 Comments
Ricky Gervais is in talks to star opposite Ty Burrell and a whole bunch of felt in Disney’s sequel to The Muppets. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gervais is in negotiations for one of the three major human parts. Burrell was previously announced as a cast-member, replacing Christoph Waltz as “a lazy Interpol inspector.” Gervais, […]
Continue readingRicky Gervais will host the 2012 Golden Globes
November 17, 2011 0 Comments
It’s official. Rabble-rouser Ricky Gervais will return to the scene of the crime and host the 2012 Golden Globes telecast, despite his infamous performance at this year’s ceremony. According to Variety, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted on Gervais’ return (though it was far from unanimous). The HFPA was divided on the decision, offering the following statement […]
Continue readingRickey Gervais might host the Golden Globes; will it inspire a boycott?
November 11, 2011 1 Comment
As the drama surrounding one major awards ceremony comes to an end, it looks as if it may just be beginning for another. Ricky Gervais told Access Hollywood NBC want him back to host the 2012 Golden Globes, despite his infamous performance at the 2011 ceremony. According to Gervais, the lone holdout is the Hollywood […]
Continue readingAussies lose; Gervais kills; Social Network wins at Golden Globes
January 17, 2011 0 Comments
The Aussies went home empty handed, and host Ricky Gervais pretty much destroyed his future in Hollywood, but at least the team behind The Social Network enjoyed this year’s Golden Globes! Gervais kicked off the ceremony with a monologue that attacked – hilariously- The Tourist, Scientology, Cher, Sex and the City 2, Mel Gibson, and […]
Continue readingThe invention of sighing – Cemetery Junction review
November 23, 2010 0 Comments
Cemetery Junction – Starring Christian Cooke, Ralph Fiennes and Ricky Gervais. Directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. This is devastating. Cemetery Junction is written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the brains (and heart) behind the peerless modern sitcoms The Office and Extras. Not only are they […]
Continue readingHead to Head – Ghost Town
May 4, 2010 3 Comments
Welcome to the latest edition of Head to Head, in which our Quickflix critic takes on our readers in a rip-snorting battle to the death! You pick the film, and we pick the fight! This week, Chris Richardson called the ghostbusters on David Koepp‘s Ghost Town. For his troubles, he scored a double pass to […]
Continue readingRicky Gervais’ Cemetery Junction heading direct to DVD
April 22, 2010 1 Comment
Cemetery Junction, the first feature film written and directed by duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (The Office and Extras), will NOT be released theatrically in Australia. It will instead head direct to DVD at some point in the near future. The highly anticipated coming-of-age drama opened in the U.K. last week to mostly favourable […]
Continue readingA lying shame – The Invention of Lying review
March 29, 2010 0 Comments
The Invention of Lying – Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe. Directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson. Rated M. Originally published November 26, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. The arrival of Ricky Gervais’s cinematic directorial debut has been awaited with anticipation not unlike that reserved for the second coming of Christ. This metaphor […]
Continue readingGervais and Merchant’s Cemetery Junction feature trailer debut!
February 2, 2010 0 Comments
source: youtube.com The trailer for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant‘s latest film Cemetery Junction has leaked online. Check it out now before it’s gone! Cemetery Junction follows a couple of twenty-something’s working as building society clerks in 1970’s Reading. The film was written and directed by Gervais and Merchant (creators, writers and co-directors of The […]
Continue readingA lying shame – The Invention of Lying
November 26, 2009 0 Comments
The Invention of Lying – Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe. Directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The arrival of Ricky Gervais’s cinematic directorial debut has been awaited with anticipation not unlike that reserved for the second coming of Christ. This metaphor can only be considered apt […]
Continue readingGervais and Merchant’s Cemetery Junction trailer debut!
July 14, 2009 1 Comment
source: rickygervais.com A (very, very early) teaser trailer for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant‘s upcoming film Cemetery Junction, featuring comedy superstar and regular yuck-meister Ralph Fiennes has debuted online. Cemetery Junction follows a couple of twenty-something’s working as building society clerks in 1970’s Reading. Gervais has described it as a cross between The Office and […]
Continue readingNo bull! The Invention of Lying trailer debuts!
June 29, 2009 0 Comments
source: youtube.com The long-awaited trailer for Ricky Gervais‘ cinematic directorial debut The Invention of Lying has landed online, featuring a smorgasbord of great comic actors. The film is a comic-fantasy (boy, Gervais loves those doesn’t he) about a parallel universe in which everyone always tells the truth. When a loser (Gervais) discovers the ability to […]
Continue readingA film with heart and souls – Ghost Town DVD review
June 29, 2009 0 Comments
Ghost Town – Starring Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear. Directed by David Koepp. Rated M for infrequent coarse language. 102 mins. Available on DVD July 2, 2009. Ghost Town is the kind of supernatural comedy that we haven’t seen since the early 90’s; back when cinemagoers weren’t jaded, highly skeptical individuals. Times have […]
Continue readingA film with heart and souls – Ghost Town review
February 12, 2009 4 Comments
Ghost Town – Starring Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear. Directed by David Koepp. Rated M for infrequent coarse language. 102 mins. Ghost Town is the kind of supernatural comedy that we haven’t seen since the early 90’s, back when cinemagoers weren’t jaded, highly skeptical individuals. Times have changed. These days, a startling depiction […]
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