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I Give It A Year (DVD)

June 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Rafe Spall, Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Simon Baker, Stephen Merchant
Director: Dan Mazer
Running Time: 93 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: June 3rd 2013

There’s a lot of criticism that most romantic comedies just go by-the-book, presenting exactly the same story over and over again. So if a rom-com tries to do something a little different, it should be applauded. It’s just a shame that with I Give It A Year, it doesn’t really work.

As the marketing has been keen to tell us, I Give It A Year starts where other rom-coms end. After a whirlwind romance, Josh (Rafe Spall) and Nat (Rose Byrne) get married, even though many of their friends aren’t sure it’s a good match. It’s not long before the cracks begin to show, with the little niggles of their relationship becoming more and more difficult to take. [Read more…]

Crush Of The Day: Life Of Pi’s Rafe Spall

December 17, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s been a good year for Rafe Spall. He appeared in Prometheus back in the summer and got a last minute role in Life Of Pi, after Ang Lee decided he needed to replace Tobey Maguire’s writer character and decided to hire Rafe for the job.

The son of Timothy Spall has been acting since his late teens, but he only started to get bigger and better roles in his mid 20s, after he lost a lot of the weight that he carried most of his life. Since then he’s scored parts such as playing painter William Holman Hunt in the mini-series Desperate Romantics, Ian in One Day and as a pompous, rather dim William Shakespeare in Anonymous (in that film, Shakespeare is just the public face of the plays, not the actual writer). Many also enjoyed his title role on the TV series Pete Vs. Life, where he played a character whose entire existence is observed and analysed by two sports commentators.

However what many may have missed is his sexy and sometimes very naked role in the 2006 TV movie, The Chatterley Affair. We’ve included a few screencaps from that below for your delectation. He may not be the most classically beautiful man, but Rafe is very cute and surprisingly sexy, so hopefully we’ll get to see him in many more roles. So click on the pics below to enlarge. And in perfect timing, a brand new trailer has been released for one of the films Rafe had coming next year (it reaches UK cinemas on February 8th), I Give It A Year, so you can watch that below too. [Read more…]

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I Give It A Year Trailer – Stephen Merchant turns best man

November 22, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The first trailer for the British comedy I Give It A Year has arrived, which teams up the likes of Anna Faris, Olivia Colman, Rose Byrne, Simon Baker, Rafe Spall, Minnie Driver and Stephen Merchant, for a movie that looks at the realities, trials and tribulations of the first year of marriage. Merchant gets the plum role in this promo, giving a truly cringe-inducing best man speech, in a way only he can.

Dan Mazer makes his feature-directorial debut, having spent years writing and producing with Sasha Baron Cohen on everything from Ali G to The Dictator. The film is due to hit UK cinemas on 8th February 2013, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

And while we’re hit, why is it nearly every British comedy in the past few years seems to have been about weddings? It’s not even like they’re inherently successful, as everything from The Knot to The Wedding Video have proved. Maybe looking at the first year of marriage can broaden things out a bit.

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ACTORS: Anna Faris, Olivia Colman, Rose Byrne, Simon Baker, Rafe Spall, Minnie Driver, Stephen Merchant DIRECTORS: Dan Mazer FILMS: I Give It A Year

Anna Faris & Rose Byrne Will Give It a Year

March 6, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Just yesterday we reported that Mentalist star Simon Baker had signed on to star opposite Rafe Spall in the romantic comedy I Give It A Year, and now they’ve got some company in the form of Anna Faris and Rose Byrne, according to Variety.

The Working Title film follows a mismatched couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who struggle with various issues through their first year of marriage. Anna Faris and Simon Baker play strong supporting characters. although it isn’t 100% clear exactly what those roles will be.

The film is based on an original script by Dan Mazer, who will also direct, and should start shooting in the spring.

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ACTORS: Anna Faris, Rose Byrne, Simon Baker, Rafe Spall DIRECTORS: Dan Mazer FILMS: I Give It A Year

Simon Baker Wants To Give It A Year

March 5, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

While he’s had huge success on TV as The Mentalist, Simon Baker’s film career has been slightly more low key. Indeed it’s easy to forget he was even in The Devil Wears Prada and The Ring 2. However he’ll be hoping he makes a bit more of an impression in the rom-com I Give It A Year, which Variety reports he’s set to star in, opposite the already attached Rafe Spall.

The film is based on an original script by Dan Mazer, who will also direct, about a pair of newlyweds who go through various trials and tribulations during their first year of marriage. It’s a fairly generic set-up, but hopefully Mazer, who cut his teeth on the likes of Da Ali G Show can make it work.

The movie will shoot later this spring, once Baker has wrapped on the current season of The Mentalist.

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ACTORS: Simon Baker, Rafe Spall DIRECTORS: Dan Mazer FILMS: I Give It A Year