Jason Segel has quickly become one of Hollywood's leading comedic talents. Since 2008's 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', which he wrote and starred in, Jason has been hot property. Add composer, musician, puppeteer, producer and 'bloody nice guy' to his list of credenitials and you'll understand why he's in such high demand.

Jason pursued a project of passion and personally revived 'The Muppets' earlier this year, before proposing to deliver the unconventional romantic comedy THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT. Jason hooks audiences in with scripts that are written from the heart with situations that are always drawn from his real life experiences and observations. He has, as he says "an unearned ego" that allows him to ignore or be confined by other people's opinions of him or his acting, and the result is a performance that audiences not only connect with, but relate to. Jason Segel is the real deal.

THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT starts where most comedies finish up, a proposal, that is essentially a comedy of errors and sets the tone for what's to come. As our newly engaged and loved up couple, played perfectly by Jason and Emily Blunt, the complications of modern day relationships come into play complete speed humps all the way down the aisle. The one-year engagement quickly becomes three, four and finally five years, as Emily's character 'Violet' is offered a career opportunity of a lifetime requiring Jason ('Tom') to quit his job as a high-flying chef to move to Michigen. While Tom can't find a position to equal his cheffing qualifications, Violet's earning top marks and promotions. This of course upsets the power balance in the relationship and sends Tom off into the woods to hunt for his manhood. One of many clever metaphors in the film.

The film explores themes of sacrifice, compromise, communication and finding equality in relationships. Would this be as an interesting plot if the woman sacrificed her job fo the man as she has been doing for centuries? Probably not. But it is interesting to observe the dynamics of this contemporary relationship model.

Jason and Emily were in Australia recently promoting their new film, and you can tell the pair are great pals on and off the screen. Jason wrote the part especially for Emily, and to be honest, I couldn't imagine anyone else pulling off what seems more like British / Aussie style of humour, ie: 'taking the piss'.

Lisa Neal had the absolute pleasure of meeting and chatting to the stars who had her, and themselves in stitches, from the gratuitous amounts of kissing in the film (inspired by Jason!) to naked chefs and crew farts, sit back and enjoy our segment on THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT.

Lisa Neal continues her pursuit of the cast and crew of BATTLESHIP and engages one-on-one communications with Rihanna, Taylor Kitsch and director Peter Berg.

This big budget blockbuster is based on the popular naval-combat boardgame first released in 1967, however the temptation to contemporise it, complete with an alien invasion was obviously too appealing, albeit a little surprising coming from director Peter Berg - think THE KINGDOM and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. When we asked 'why the aliens?' Berg describes how his lifelong passion for making a film about the US Navy based on the gruesome war stories he grew up on (courtesy of his marine-dad) was always going to be a hard and dark pitch to any studio. Adding aliens into the mix not only got the studios onside, but also the male-teen demographic, who are simply going to go baulistic over this flick.

Popstar turned actor Rihanna, tells how she loved training with 'real' weapons and how the heavy vibration of shooting the war machines was up there as her favourite moment on set. Leading man Taylor Kitsch shares his 'pinch me' moment - a sentimental story shared with a WWII vet, while Peter Berg claimed the reign as 'King of the World', for a brief moment, when sailing out at the helm of the historical USS Missouri, one of the most famous war ships and the ship on which Japan surrendered, signed the peace treaty and effectively ended WWII. Berg obtained unheard of access to shoot on this ship, a personal and professional 'pinch-me' moment to say the least. It's also the undeniable money shot of the film.

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