Love and Other Drugs continues to tick all the boxes, Maggie Gyllenhaal joins Peter on screen and Jake's the perfect gentleman

Love and Other Drugs continues its test screening journey across the world and this week it reached London. While finding it a little strange to think of this film playing so near (and yet so far), it's great to hear that the movie is still wowing its testers as they tick all the boxes on the clipboard. And again, we hear how the Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway combo is making audiences - male and female - both laugh and cry.


Here's the IMDb report and, yet again, it's by a male viewer, and not your traditional female RomCom fan. 'I saw this last night [Tuesday 17 August] at a test screening here in London. Both me and my friend came out of the cinema absolutely, unanimously loving the film. I didn't really know what to expect going in, but at the end we were asked to fill out a comment card and it ticked pretty much every good box going.'


'Gyllenhaal and Hathaway have a brilliant chemistry on screen and the story seemlessly went from hilarious to heart-touchingly sad. It can take a lot to make me laugh, but there were some truly laugh out loud belly laughs, and it can take a lot to make me cry, but the way the film deals with Hathaway's character's Parkinsons disease was incredibly emotional.'


'I just watched the trailer and it does a decent job of telling you what the plot is about, but the film itself has so much going for it it's hard to condense it down to a 2 minute trailer, so don't judge a film by it's trailer. All in all, it's by far one of the best drama/romantic/comedies I've seen in a long long time. Highly recommended!' He later goes on to describe one scene dealing with Anne's illness as 'quite harrowing'. It sounds like this is, after all, a difficult film to characterise and full of surprises and delights for its audience.


A family affair

At the New York premiere of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (such a good film - do go and see it or, in the UK, watch the DVD), Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that she is joining Peter Sarsgaard in the bluegrass biopic of Bill Monroe. How wonderful it will be to see the two of them together on the big screen. You can bet that'll be one film Jake will be watching with great interest.


Chesty

Jake's chest meanwhile is an object of contension at PoPSugar with your vote required for its victory against other fine Hollywoodian abs.



And finally...

We've been formally introduced to Jake's lovely new Triumph but it looks as if some PoP spending money has gone on another vehicle, a convertible. But, as always, whatever the vehicle, Jake is leaving an impression. And, in this case, it's as the perfect gentleman.

'My merging lane was coming to an end – and you know what that means – the lane is slowly getting narrower – and my patience is slowly getting less and less. Is anybody going to let me in??!! Finally another dude (did I just say dude?) in a convertible motions to me. He is letting me in! I was reassured that I was a nice guy and having a good hair day. Even better, I check into my rearview mirror after I pull in to wave to this good highway Samaritan and wouldn’t you know it? It was Jake Gyllenhall! Yes the Prince of Persia himself! As I wave thank you, he gives a cool Brokeback Mountain nod of acknowledgement. Is there such a thing as a Brokeback Mountain nod? At any rate, my point is this: just like Charlton Heston parted the Red Sea as Moses, Jake Gyllenhaal parted the sea of traffic for me!'


Includes pictures from IHJ and Getty.