The original Zoolander was a genuinely funny, inventive comedy that affectionately mocked the bizarre world of high fashion. With its endearingly silly humour, excellent use of music and its unusually striking pop-art visual style, the film melted audience cynicism and ensconced itself in that list of repeat watch DVD’s. It greatest triumph, though, was to create indelible characters who have
Read moreWith his remarkable trio of hits The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon and What’s Up Doc, Peter Bogdanovich became one of the defining directors of the 1970’s. HIs star rapidly began to fade, however, with the critically panned 1975 musical At Long Last Love. He subsequently drifted into the world of telemovies and became a prolific actor; Sopranos fans will
Read moreFew things kill a film’s credibility quicker than gratuitous product placement. The sense of a purely commercial imperative invading a film is about as palatable as a bucket of cold sick. The Internship, the latest film for Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan, takes product placement to a new and disturbing level. We don’t just have an ad placed in a
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