Jennifer Aniston, of course best known for her role as Rachel in Friends, has been doing brilliantly with her movie career in the years since the end of that iconic TV show, taking roles in much-talked about films Marley & Me, The Break-Up, Horrible Bosses, and the upcoming Wanderlust, opposite her Friends co-star, Paul Rudd.

THR report that she’s now boarded her next project, the dramedy Miss You Already, and as if that wasn’t good news enough, Entertainment One has already pre-bought the UK, Australian, and Canadian rights to the film at the European Film Market this past weekend.

The film follows,

“two lifelong friends whose friendship falls apart when one gets pregnant and the other becomes ill.”

Paul Andrew Williams will be directing from a script he co-wrote with British actress-writer-producer Morwenna Banks. Williams is best known for feature debut with London to Brighton, and who moves into the drama-comedy drama with his next film, Song for Marion, due out this year, which will star Gemma Arterton, Vanessa Redgrave, and Christopher Eccleston. Clearly a director to be keeping an eye on.

The film is set to go before cameras this summer, so hopefully we’ll have more news to bring you soon about the project, including who’ll be cast opposite Aniston as the co-lead. With Aniston now attached, the project should be able to secure US distribution too, so if you’re reading this in the US, you can no doubt rest fairly soundly in the assurance that you’ll be seeing this film on the big screen as well, hopefully around this time next year.

Starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston in the leads, Wanderlust has the potential to be brilliant. We saw a great first trailer for the film a few months ago, and now we’ve got a great new clip to share with you with Rudd showing off his guitar skills, taking on the Spin Doctors song, Two Princes.

Directed by David Wain and co-written by Wain and Ken Marino, whose Role Models proved a huge success back in 2008, the film has a great supporting cast that includes Justin Theroux, Malin Akerman, Marino himself, Alan Alda, Kathryn Hahn, and Ray Liotta.

“George and Linda are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta.

On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them.

Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?”

This new clip, via Metacafe and Collider, sees Rudd go up against Theroux on the guitar and coming out a little worse for wear, with Aniston looking brilliantly impressed by Theroux instead of Rudd.

Wanderlust is set to hit the big screen here on 2^nd March, a week after its US release on 24^th February, and by all accounts looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. Here’s the new clip to give you an idea of what we can expect.

While it didn’t exactly break new territory or impress many critics, Bruce Almighty proved to be a commercial hit with its simple premise and charming allure, raking in an estimated $484M worldwide and spawning a less-than-desirable spin-off that’s better left unmentioned.

It’s no surprise, then, to hear that Universal are looking to capitalise on its success with a long-awaited sequel.

According to the ever-reliable folks over at Variety, feelers have been sent out to screenwriting duo Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel (Hot Tub Time Machine) in the hopes they’ll dream up a story worthy of telling.

Directed by Tom Shadyac, Bruce Almighty starred Jim Carrey (The Mask) as a guy who, after becoming disillusioned by the forces at will, is awarded the powers of God to teach him just how difficult it is to be ruler of all things. Jennifer Aniston (The Break-Up), Morgan Freeman (Red) and Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin) co-starred.

No further information is known at this point, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated as and when anything new is reported.

How do you feel about a Bruce Almighty sequel? Does it intrigue you or simply send shivers down your spine? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below:

Some may not be much in the mood for more Horrible Bosses, personally I quite enjoyed the film and wouldn’t mind more of the same. Well, not exactly the same, but you catch my drift.

Where does it go next? More Horrible Bosses? Horribler Bosses? Horrible Bosses: Die More Horribly? Let us know what you think.

For the uninitiated, Horrible Bosses gave us three sorry protagonists in the shape of Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman and Charlie Day, each with their own horrible boss who they were keen to be rid of. You can catch our reviews of the film here to see what we thought of it. It was not the sort of film that obviously needed a sequel, given that, as tends to be the case with most Hollywood fare that is not drawn up with a franchise in mind, everything is wrapped up pretty neatly at the end, yet here we are.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who scripted the original, are set to have signed up to write the sequel and director Seth Gordon is said to be being courted to return as well. Given their respective impressive comedic touches, each of the principals will hopefully return too, though one would expect all concerned to hold fire until they get sight of the script. With a reported worldwide return of $200m+ on an initial outlay of $35m, perhaps the sums speak for themselves in showing the driving force behind this sequel.

One can only hope that we will be given something altogether more imaginative, more intelligent and more worthwhile than last year’s lazy sequel to The Hangover. Watch this space.

Source: THR.

Ever since the heady days of ‘the lean’ rom-com posters have been suitably low on inspiration.  Not a day went by where you didn’t see Matthew McConaughey leaning toward some hire-a-face actress who in turn was leaning toward him. Oh how they leaned! The only thing stopping them from collapsing into a self satisfied heap of attractiveness was the mutually supportive lean based construction the two had created , it’s foundations composed entirely of commercially motivated whimsy and the structural integrity of McConaughey’s abs.

Well now that such lean-centric advertising has fallen into the realms of cliché and parody the first poster for Wanderlust is out and it looks set to revolutionise the way actors and actresses pose for promotional material that wishes to signal “fun and frothy romantic comedy!”:

George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta. On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colourful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them. Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?

I’m guessing it’s going to solve all of their problems. Just a hunch.

Yep from the poster it seems there’s going to be a lot of ‘throwing caution to the wind!’ and ‘living life down the path less travelled!’ and a load of other shouty potentially comedic stuff. Oh, and a redemptive ending that tells you that working the 9 to 5 grind might not be the best way to go about your life. The whole jumping into the unknown thing the new poster’s got going on has loads of potential. Just stick your actress and McConaughey of choice into the actress and McConaughey sized gaps and you can promote any film with it. As a matter of fact I might copyright it right now. This poster’s got legs.

In reference to the film itself all we have to go on is the trailer. The trailer where the comedy looks to be found largely in the culture shock induced when one joins a hippie commune, that and Paul Rudd. And I love Paul Rudd.

Well everything seems in order then. Let’s hope it lives up to its potential. And that Aniston is funny for once.

Source: IMP Awards.

I think news that the very popular pregnancy book, What To Expect When You’re Expecting, was going to be making its big-screen debut took everyone a little bit by surprise, given that the book itself isn’t so much a novel as a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin guidebook. (I believe – I’m yet to be expecting, myself.)

In reality, the film isn’t specifically adapting the book itself, but rather taking the idea and turning it into a film, and Yahoo Movies have just put up the first trailer, and it looks pretty excellent; a rom-com for us to look forward to next year.

When you have an ensemble cast that includes the likes of Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jennifer Lopez, Chace Crawford, Chris Rock, Matthew Morrison, Thomas Lennon, and Joe Manganiello, it’s either going to be a huge hit or a big disappointment, and this certainly looks like it’s going to be a success.

As you can imagine from the title, the film centres around five couples on the path to parenthood, and the trailer looks like the comedy should be coming in doses just as big as the romance, and with a cast that big, it should have a pretty wide appeal.

Kirk Jones (Nanny McPhee) has directed a script written first by Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) with a rewrite coming from Shauna Cross (Whip It), with the original source material being Heidi Murkoff’s book of the same name.

What To Expect When You’re Expecting, which is also set to feature a cameo from our own Cheryl Cole, will be released here in the UK on 18th May next year, and it looks like it’s going to be a great light-hearted way to see out the end of spring ahead of the immense summer blockbusters we’re all looking forward to.

That release date currently lines it up against Sacha Baron Cohen’s next film, The Dictator, with Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows coming out a week before it and Men in Black III coming out a week after. Without further ado, here’s the great first trailer for the film (with the exception of the pretty poor and far too obvious ‘Expect the Unexpected’ tagline at the end). Enjoy.

To celebrate the release of Horrible Bosses on Blu-ray Triple-Play, DVD and digital download now (buy your copy here), Warner Bros. Home Video have given us three three fantastic featurettes from the Blu-ray that really showcase what you can expect from the movie. Horrible Bosses is directed by Seth Gordon and has an amazing cast which includes Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Julie Bowen and Jamie Foxx. If you missed Dave’s review of the BD, you can check it out here.

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them. Produced by Jay Stern.

All three featurettes are embedded below and you can select which you’d like to see using the navigation below.

You can rent Horrible Bosses here.

Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) are struggling. Their bosses (Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell) are horrible. Properly horrible. They can’t leave their jobs for various reasons relating to blackmail, undeserved criminal records and concerns about the employment market but cannot stand their bosses. They decide to kill their bosses, enlisting the help of seeming criminal consultant Muthaf***a Jones (Jamie Foxx). It all then starts to go horribly wrong.

*****

Horrible Bosses is a lot of fun. It didn’t get much love on its theatrical release and although it is hardly a classic for the ages, it does what it does well. Key to its relative success is the likeability of and our sympathy for the put-upon leads. Although Sudeikis tests our empathy towards Kurt by making him a bafflingly successful man with all manner of attractive women, for the most part the three of them are funny, endearing and believably out of their depth. Bateman in particular (and utterly unsurprisingly) demonstrates the deftest touch in terms of comic timing, showing once again his seemingly limitless capacity to improve any film in which he appears.

As is fleshed out in the features, Aniston, Spacey and Farrell have a load of fun on antagonist duties. Spacey is of course very much channeling his earlier work in Swimming with Sharks and is far more within his comfort zone than the others, but to his credit he doesn’t phone his work in, giving a creditably convincing performance. The script and direction manage to keep things moving along nicely, with the risk of repetition being deftly avoided, though as with so many films these days, it is a little too long in the extended cut offered here.

Most of the shenanigans generate the requisite laughs, although a brief scene where the guys bump into an old friend who lost his job at Lehman Brothers and is now offering sexual favours for money is a little more gross than is really necessary. As mentioned above, not a game-changer, but not a bad way to spend an evening in. You can catch it on DVD and Bluray to rent from 21st November and to buy from mid-December. Or, you might like to try your hand at winning a copy here.

***~~ (3/5)

Extras: Not bad. The main cast share their experiences of horrible bosses, talk about how to survive a horrible boss and give us a bit of insight into how they each approached their characters. We see some on set messing about, some deleted scenes and there’s a featurette on the making of the soundtrack, of all things. Neither too long, nor too brief. Well done.

***~~ (3/5)

On 21^st November 2011 HORRIBLE BOSSES will be available on Blu-ray triple play, featuring a hi-definition copy of the extended and cinema versions of the film, a standard definition theatrical version, and a digital copy of the standard definition theatrical version.  It will also be available on single disc DVD. To celebrate the release of HORRIBLE BOSSES on, we have 4 triple-play blu-rays and 4 Horrible Bosses office packs up for grabs.

Unfortunately for Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust.  Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently.
There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis star as the three hapless workers, with Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and two-time Oscar^®winner Kevin Spacey, as their unbearable bosses.  Oscar^® winner Jamie Foxx stars as the plotters’ unlikely mentor, whose street cred is priced on a sliding scale.

To find out more about HORRIBLE BOSSES visit www.horriblebossesmovie.co.uk

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HORRIBLE BOSSES stars this actress, who is best known for her work in television as Rachel Green on the hit ensemble comedy FRIENDS. Name the actress.

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Universal Pictures have released the first official trailer for Wanderlust, offering hysterics, nudity and an all round entertainment.

Directed by David Wain (Role Models), Wanderlust stars Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Malin Åkerman, Justin Theroux, Lauren Ambrose, Alan Alda, Kathryn Hahn and Ken Marino.

George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta.

On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colourful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them.

Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?

Wanderlust will hit U.K. cinemas on March 2, 2012.

Watch the promising trailer below:

Source: Yahoo Movies

It’s been almost three and a half decades since Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope hit the big screens and took the world by storm, and in all of the years following, the series of six films has penetrated pop culture across the world in a way that very, very few films or franchises are ever able to.

Like it or not, there are literally thousands of references to the Star Wars series in the films and television programmes we watch, the books we read, and the music we listen to. With so many references, homages, and parodies to choose from, it would be enormously difficult, if not impossible, to come up with a definitive list of them all.

So instead, to coincide with the films’ Blu-Ray release, I present to you the Awards for the Best Pop Culture References to Star Wars, as voted for by me. Because there are so many to choose from, I’ve cut it down to a Six of the Best awards ceremony (six rather than five for obvious Star Wars reasons). There’ll undoubtedly be many moments that haven’t made my personal Top Six, so if there’s something you think has been unjustly missed out, vote for your own favourite moments in the comments below. We’d love to hear what your favourite nods to the franchise are.

Without further ado, I give to you, my Six of the Best.

Best Costume

I thought a great moment from TV’s Friends would be a good way to kick us off. Just like Star Wars, Friends is something a lot of people love, and almost everyone is familiar with on some level. And this particular scene from the show, taken from the episode ‘The One With the Princess Leia Fantasy’, is fantastic. After confessing his secret fantasy to Rachel about wanting to see her dressed up as Princess Leia, Ross’ dream is somewhat ruined by something Chandler confesses to earlier in the episode.

The award itself is actually a tie between Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) and Judy Geller (Christina Pickles), because they are equally as excellently dressed as each other, and both deserve credit for their efforts. But sadly I can’t find a clip I can embed that features them both, so it’s just Rachel that we see below. As the first episode in season three, it aptly serves as both a brilliant introduction to the season and to these awards.

Best Lightsaber Practice

From one TV show to another, we move on to George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera) and his garage home-video recording of something so many of us will have done at some point or another: lightsaber practice for our inevitable future Jedi training.

The clip is one that crops up a few times throughout the show (they did enjoy rewarding their long-time viewers with self-references on Arrested Development), so I’m a little surprised I can’t find that decent a clip of it on YouTube. Nonetheless, it’s a great moment, and whilst I can’t say I ever filmed myself doing it, nor did I get quite so into it as George Michael does here, there’ll be millions of kids all over the world who can relate to the idea of making that well-known lightsaber sound, having fake saber-rattling fights with their friends, and wanting to be a Jedi.

Hell, considering almost 400,000 people in England and Wales alone marked down ‘Jedi’ as their religion in the UK 2001 Census, he can’t be the only one doing it. So I’ll ask you now to direct your attention to about 1:45 into this video, when Gob (Will Arnett) accidentally slots George Michael’s home video into the end of his campaign video for class president.

Best Re-Enactment

If you’re a fan of any of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s work, you’ll know that the pair like to embed pop. culture references into so much of what they do, which is always good fun. Their TV show, Spaced, is full of nods to Stars Wars, The Matrix, and many other things, and whilst shooting their latest film, Paul, they also made this absolute gem.

Everyone knows that pretty much every film has little plot holes and continuity errors dotted about here and there, and Star Wars is no different. But of course that doesn’t mean we love it any less, and Pegg and Frost brilliantly show up a few of these little flaws, which I’m sure in no way detract from their love of the series, in their excellent re-enactment.

Best Animated Parody

There are of course two main contenders that come to mind for this award, and they would be Robot Chicken and Family Guy. Both shows have done three episodes apiece parodying the Star Wars series, but I must confess that I haven’t seen any of Seth Green’s take on the films with his own show, and thus my vote falls unilaterally and dictatorially behind the latter, Seth MacFarlane’s Laugh It Up, Fuzzball trilogy, which started by opening the sixth season back in 2007 with the double-length episode, Blue Harvest.

Given that there’s a full forty-odd minutes of Star Wars parody gold to choose from here, and that’s just counting the first of the three episodes, I thought I’d include two tiny snippets instead of one longer one, just because they’re both excellent. The first clip is of two of the Death Star’s employees venting to each other, and the second is our introduction to Stewie as Darth Vader, whose sarcasm is just perfect.

Best Debate On The Source Material

Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Star Wars vs. The Lord of the Rings, even Star Wars vs. Star Wars. In plenty of films, as well as in real life, there are arguments over which is better, and this particular debate from Kevin Smith’s Clerks is my personal favourite. It’s just such a great conversation. In my opinion, Smith has an unmatched talent for turning ordinarily utterly inane subject matter into something watchable and incredibly entertaining, and this is a perfect example of that.

Here, we see Randal (Jeff Anderson) and Dante (Brian O’Halloran) at first discussing which Star Wars film is their favourite, and then they get into the finer details and Randal starts talking about how innocent lives were lost in Return of the Jedi when the second Death Star is blown up. It’s the kind of brilliant observation that I love Smith for. He can turn the most ridiculous and meaningless discussion, the kind you have with your friends about nothing whatsoever, into a genius scene in a terrific film, showing right off the bat with his feature debut what a great writer-director he is.

Best Use Of The Star Wars Main Theme

And finally, from one great Lucas-sized figure in pop. culture to another, I thought I’d finish this little awards ceremony with John Hughes’ nod to Star Wars in one of my favourite of his films, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

The Star Wars Main Theme is beyond iconic. It’s something almost everyone recognises with ease, and it’s just one of the many incredible pieces of music John Williams has written, with A New Hope’s score earning him one of his five Academy Awards. And Hughes’ use of the theme here is brilliant. After Ferris (Matthew Broderick) puts Cameron’s father’s Ferrari into a parking garage, the two mechanics working there see their chance for a day of freedom, just like Ferris, and take advantage of the opportunity that has fallen into their laps, enjoying the benefits the classic car has to offer, set to Williams’ classic score.

As I wrote at the start of this article, there is an almost infinite number of moments from television and film to choose from over the past three and a half decades, making it very hard to pick just half a dozen. That there are so many is an undeniable testament to the franchise’s cultural impact, and there are very few things that could be argued rival Lucas’ creation. Film series like Harry Potter, James Bond, and Pirates of the Caribbean might well be in the same ball park as Star Wars in terms of box office revenue, but even they don’t pervade pop. culture nearly as frequently or as brilliantly as Star Wars does. In that respect, I’d say it is truly in a league of its own. And for that reason, Lucas and everyone that worked on the films deserve our undying gratitude for creating something that has spawned so many brilliant parodies and allusions that are excellent in their own right.

Until next time, I’ll leave you with one final clip from Family Guy’s Blue Harvest that pays homage to John Williams’ fantastic work on the films’ scores. The video quality’s not brilliant, but I love this piece. Enjoy.

Our Idiot Brother is a Paul Rudd comedy, so it’ll immediately have charmed many of you into submission and while I can’t find it easy to forgive the bass slapping dance thing out of I Love You Man* I’ll buy him as a likeable stoner who annoys his family when he arrives on the doorstep of his three sisters.

Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer are those sisters and are the focus of the new clip and it’s always a pleasure to see Mortimer on screen even when she’s being harangued by the other two. Steve Coogan turns up in this one too as husband to a sister and the trailer we saw recently made it look as if there’s a decent script to go with the so so premise.

The film played pretty well at Sundance and there’s just over three weeks until it turns up on America’s door with a blunt in one hand and a guitar in the other demanding to be let in. No news as to a UK release.

MovieWeb served this one up,

* This is what I mean…

The last poster that we got for Our Idiot Brother, the upcoming comedy led by Paul Rudd, wasn’t exactly the best thing we’ve ever seen, to put it nicely. But now HitFix have got the new poster for the film, and it’s looking much better.

We now get to see Rudd’s co-stars, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer, who play his sisters in the film, with Rudd clearly getting on their nerves just by being his laid-back self.

The film premiered at Sundance at the start of the year to some good reviews there and in case you missed it you can see a trailer here. To me, there aren’t that many comedians that have a great track record, but Rudd is certainly one of them. He’s been going from strength to strength over the past decade, following his break in Clueless, starring as Phoebe’s boyfriend and then husband in Friends, as well as taking supporting roles in a number of Judd Apatow-related movies, including Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and the upcoming Wanderlust opposite Jennifer Aniston and the next Apatow-directed feature, This Is Forty, a spin-off from Knocked Up.

In Our Idiot Brother, Rudd stars as Ned, an upbeat, laid-back guy that gets arrested when he sells cannabis to a police officer. After his release, he successively moves in with his sisters and manages to disrupt their lives and (hopefully) cause general comedic chaos for the family.

Banks, Deschanel, and Mortimer have of course all been rising to bigger and bigger recognition in recent years, and it’s great to see a comedy with such a good line-up like this. Also co-starring alongside them all will be Steve Coogan, who is a bit of a comedy genius, and Rashida Jones, who starred with Rudd in I Love You, Man and who played the junior lawyer defending Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network last year.

The film is directed by Jesse Peretz, who directed the Zach Braff-starrer, The Ex, a few years back, and who also has a number of great music video credits, including Foo Fighter’s Learn To Fly, which won him a Grammy Award in 2001. Currently scheduled to be released in the US on 26th August, and with no date scheduled for the UK, it looks like we may have to wait until its DVD/Blu-Ray release to catch this one, which is a shame. Without further ado though, here’s the new and improved poster. As usual, click to enlarge.

The greatly anticipated summer comedy Horrible Bosses is in cinemas today, directed by Seth Gordon and starring a sparkly array of Hollywood stars – a few of whom we caught up with at the press conference on Wednesday mere hours before the premiere. The director led the way through the Crystal Suite at The Dorchester hotel and was closely followed by a very dashing looking Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston in a clingy leather number (that frankly nobody else could pull off) and the bromantic threesome Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis.

The conference turned out to be a fair balance of silly questions, even sillier answers and a lot of unsubtle flirting with the beautiful Ms. Aniston from journalists and actors alike. Sadly I have nothing incredible to report with the exception of how quick-witted Jason Bateman is and Jason Sudeikis’ sometimes crude but surprisingly dry sense of humour led to a lot of laugh out loud moments. I’ll admit it was a shame that we didn’t get to hear more from the charming Charlie Day and the Jasons but their on screen rapport and comic comradery clearly spills over into their personal and professional friendships.  It was a pleasure to see Kevin Spacey who quipped that his taking on a positively evil role in Horrible Bosses as the slave-driving supervisor Harken mostly coincided with the fact he wasn’t in a play at the time!

I thoroughly recommend checking out Jamie’s review of the film here after you’ve had a good old lust after Jennifer and the boys in these pictures from the photo-call, courtesy of Getty.

Charlie Day, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and Seth Gordon

Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston

Last night, London saw the European premiere of Warner Bros. new movie, Horrible Bosses. The cast is rather impressive and includes Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Jamie Foxx, Julie Bowen, Donal Sutherland and John Francis Daley. It’s directed by Seth Gordon.

Synopsis: For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them. Produced by Jay Stern.

Our friends from Upbeat were on the ‘blue’ carpet with Edith Bowman at the event to chat with Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and director Seth Gordon who were all there to promote the film which is released tomorrow 22nd July.

You can read our review here and see all our coverage here.

Horrible Bosses centres on Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day): three best friends who want nothing more than to be free of their intolerable bosses. When every permissible route has been attempted, the trio devise a dastardly and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers… permanently. But, as they soon find out, plans are easier devised than followed through.

While the premise starts off as a simplistic and mundane everyday comedy, it quickly (and welcomely) develops into something far more devilish and sinister. Screenwriters Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein may not bring a whole lot of plausibility or realism to the table, and you may find yourself scratching your head at the film’s outlandish ideas, but their zealous efforts go towards creating something bold, eccentric and ahead of the game.

The central trio of Bateman, Day and Sudeikis is what really bolsters this comedy. Their characters are vastly different but gel so well together, bouncing off one another with an incredible charm and quick wit. Bateman has sharpened his skill to deliver a raw comedic performance, and Sudeikis is solidly on-from. Out of the three though, it’s Day who truly stands out, doing so at every available opportunity. His rapport with Aniston in particular is expertly acted.

In terms of the bosses, and in that respect the main supporting cast, Kevin Spacey owns his role. Obviously in performance euphoria, he rabidly shoots off abuse like he’s been waiting his whole career to play this slave-driving psycho. Though shamefully kept in the background, Colin Farrell entirely embraces his less than flattering physical transformation, along with a daft vocabulary and racist sensibilities. As for Jennifer Aniston, she has finally been cast against type as the nymphomaniac Dr. Harris, dropping one hysterical vulgarity after another. Rachel Green is no more, and Aniston has a whole lot more to offer as an actress than most cinemagoers have been led to believe. She has, for better or worse, well and truly shed her good girl image.

As a director, Gordon fares very well. On the back of his outstanding documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Four Christmases was a clear career misstep. To Horrible Bosses, however, he has brought unabashed zany humour, immersive interspersed drama and an offbeat directing style: techniques clearly built up during his time spent making documentaries and working on veteran television comedies, such as 30 Rock. In short: a perfect mix for welcomely off-kilter comedy film.

The two most noticeable flaws of Horrible Bosses, however, are that it never fully measures up to its outrageously dark premise, and that it ends up feeling borderline offensive at times. The film does provide elements of dark comedy, finding humour in scenes of death, mutilation and drug use, but it’s played all too cosily and light-hearted, never evoking the desired reaction. Also, however fun it is to watch Dr. Harris sexually harass Dale and hear how much Kurt wants to sleep with every living female, it often comes across as crass and degrading, and can be uncomfortable to watch.

That said, Horrible Bosses is still frequently hilarious, with laughs arriving both hard and often once the film finds its feet, thanks in no part to the sharply written script and enthusiasm evident in the well selected cast. There are even times when it sets itself up as a new favourite for the workplace comedy genre in the vein of Office Space or Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, but it ultimately falls short and feels miles away from its courageously crazy premise. Nevertheless, it’s a well-intended and laugh-out-loud comedy worth a chance.

***½~ (3.5/5)

Unfortunately for Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust.  Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently.

There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis star as the three hapless workers, with Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and two-time Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey, as their unbearable bosses.  Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx stars as the plotters’ unlikely mentor, whose street cred is priced on a sliding scale.

To celebrate the release of HORRIBLE BOSSES in cinemas on Friday 22 July, HeyUGuys have some HORRIBLE BOSSES ‘office packs’ up for grabs, including a desktop drink dispenser, stationary set, coaster and Post-it pen. To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the below question;

HORRIBLE BOSSES stars this actress, who can be seen most recently on the silver screen in JUST GO WITH IT opposite Adam Sandler and is best known for her work in television as Rachel Green on the hit ensemble comedy FRIENDS. Name the actress in the form below,

A Jennifer Garner
B Jennifer Aniston
C Jennifer Beals

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Horrible Bosses hits UK cinemas 22nd July (look out for our review later this coming week). From the trailers, it’s looks completely crazy and we do like a little bit of crazy! The cast is rather impressive and includes Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Jamie Foxx, Julie Bowen, Donal Sutherland and John Francis Daley. It’s directed by Seth Gordon.

Synopsis: For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them. Produced by Jay Stern.

The title of this post is pretty accurate! Wish that you had a dentist that looked like Jennifer Aniston coupled with the fact that she’s not wearing many clothes? Then you’re going to like this! Click play on the below!

Jennifer Aniston ‘Nympho’ clip

Kevin Spacey ‘Anti-Christ’ clip

Colin Farrell ‘Tool’ clip

The recent trailer for Seth Gordon’s Horrible Bosses kicked up my anticipation for this film.

The cast seem to be having a very fun time, some playing to type, others clearly enjoying trying something a little different (Evil Aniston) and Teen Wolf Too aside I’d gladly watch anything with Jason Bateman in it.

The director of The King of Kong, who was recently connected with a War Games remake, has a fantastic cast working with him for this tale of blood on the carpet and six new clips from the film have surfaced online.

Collider have kindy collated the clips into one long video. Give it a click, why don’t you? Then you can sit back at work and turn the volume up as loud as it can go and watch the red band trailer which follows.

Red Band Trailer

Warner Bros. have released a brand new trailer and a new clip for their new comedy, Horrible Bosses. The more I see of it, the more I want to see it in its finished form!

Horrible Bosses is directed by Seth Gordon and stars Kevin Spacey , Colin Farrell , Jason Bateman , Charlie Day , Jennifer Aniston , Jason Sudeikis, Jamie Foxx , Julie Bowen , Donal Sutherland and John Francis Daley.

Synopsis: For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them. Produced by Jay Stern.

Horrible Bosses will be released in the UK on July 22nd.

Source: The MovieBox / MTV