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Trailer Debut: I Give It a Year

The romantic comedy I Give It a Year stars Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Rafe Spall, and Simon Baker, and there’s a new trailer out to prove it. Byrne and Spall play a married couple who aren’t quite clicking, and are tempted away by the likes of Baker and Faris. Stephen Merchant pops up to play the wise-cracking […]

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The invention of sighing – Cemetery Junction review

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 […]

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Ricky Gervais’ Cemetery Junction heading direct to DVD

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 […]

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Gervais and Merchant’s Cemetery Junction feature trailer debut!

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 […]

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Fairy movie – Tooth Fairy review

Tooth Fairy – Starring Dwayne Johnson, Stephen Merchant and Julie Andrews. Directed by Michael Lembeck. Rated G. By Simon Miraudo. To call Tooth Fairy a bad film is like calling star Dwayne Johnson a big guy. Both statements are accurate, but neither actually conveys the degree to which they are true. Dwayne Johnson isn’t just […]

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Gervais and Merchant’s Cemetery Junction trailer debut!

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 […]

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No bull! The Invention of Lying trailer debuts!

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 […]

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