How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

Posted : 1 year ago at Nov 19 10:32

Simon Pegg nestles in near the top of my "Funniest British Blokes" paradigm and given his foray into movies has quickly risen to the top of the comedic cream. It's a shame in some ways because Spaced was one of the first in a small list of cult comedies that capture me in the way a dopey moth flies hopelessly toward incandescent light. For some unknown reason it is often the lack of anybody else laughing that I find so appealing. This kind of show is usually offered up by a tentative BBC3 at midnight as a tabernacle for an experimental audience, The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, and Flight of the Conchordes are all examples of the kind of low budget cult comedies that the BBC try to show without drawing to much attention to themselves. I am telling you all of this frivolous information so that ...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Oct 16 5:59

''I would definitely vote for you for best supporting dress!'' A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People". Simon Pegg: Sidney Young We all know the routine. A failing writer has a moment in his life where everything seems to be a struggle. Then out of the blue a situation presents itself for said writer/hero to change his fortunes and predicament for the better. Throw in a contemporary love story where guy thinks he wants girl, only to end up wanting another, boss ends up disliking him and everything seems to go wrong. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People does what alot of films and books have done before yet retains it's laughs and sketches by giving us fun and indeed Pegg...Read more

Rating : 7/10