The long-awaited film version of Douglas Adams' THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, based on his five-book series, is a funny, wacky, highly creative ride through a bizarre universe. Martin Freeman (Tim from THE OFFICE) stars as Arthur Dent, a British everyman suddenly thrust into intergalactic intrigue when the earth is .. Read more
| Starring | Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel |
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| Director | Garth Jennings |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy has proved to be an enormous success on both sides of the channel, topping the box office lists in both the UK and the US. The film has managed to knock Nicole Kidman's The Interpreter off top spot, and came in ahead of another new release, xXx2, starring Ice Cube and Samuel L Jackson. The news will delight fans of the sci-fi adventure, an adaptation of the immensely popular 1970s novel by Douglas Adams. The ambitious project was the first film for director... Read more
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the sci-fi comedy based on the best-selling novel by Douglas Adams, is released on DVD from today. The quirky adventure has a strong cast and marks a directorial debut for Garth Jennings. Martin Freeman, who shot to fame in TV comedy The Office, and has since appeared in Love Actually and Shaun Of The Dead, plays the lead role of Arthur Dent. Dent is whisked off planet Earth just seconds before it is destructed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He is... Read more
Screen legend Robert De Niro has joined Charlie's Angels star Drew Barrymore and Pearl Harbour's Kate Beckinsale in the cast of comedy remake Everybody's Fine, according to reports. Industry newspaper Variety says De Niro, whose CV includes Raging Bull, Godfather II, Goodfellas and Casino, will take the lead in the move, which is remake of Italian film Stanno Tutti Bene. He will play a widower who takes a road trip in a bid to reconnect with his grown-up children following the death of his wife. Read more
We spoke to charming British director Garth Jennings as he gave us the scoop on his creative, hart-warming comedy Son Of Rambow. He explains the film's long journey to the silverscreen, his first film crush and where he found the film's two fledgling young stars Bill and Will. Michel Gondry meets Grange Hill? You betcha! LOVEFiLM: Son Of Rambow is semi-biographical; has it been close to your heart for a while? Garth Jennings: Well it was eight years ago when we came up with the idea and quite... Read more
Set in the early 80s, this delightful comedy applies modest cinematic means to create a hyper-real slapstick world as perceived by ten-year-old Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner). Will has had a sheltered life in the Plymouth Brethren, a puritanical religious group that forbids worldly contamination by music, TV, or films. No wonder school rebel Lee Carter (Will Poulter) rocks his world. Lee Carter (as Will always calls him) is a bit of a bully, but his "Just William" style antics are innocent... Read more