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Read More]]> How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is based on Toby Young's memoir of the same name and features British comic actor Simon Pegg again making inroads with an American audience. This time he transplants himself in the USA courtesy of an offer he can’t refuse. He can’t refuse because one of his employees has left and he owns the office fax machine. Figg plays Sidney Young a hard hitting journalist with lots of integrity but an abrasive personality. His irreverent magazine is failing badly so when a New York call comes in from a hirsute suit (the ageless Jeff Bridges as magazine mogul Clayton Harding) he’s off to the Big Apple. Even by New York standards he proves to be rude as he tries to decipher the code of scaling the literary corporate ladder. Kirsten Dunst is Alison Olsen who finds Sidney as repulsive as everyone else but is forced to quasi mentor him at Sharps magazine. It’s not until he surrenders his moral compass and agrees to play ball with the manipulative agent to the stars Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) that things start to turn around for him. He also starts to make some headway with Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) the girl of his dreams. Figg has a talent for being believable whether playing a slob or being straight laced and he’s a past master of physical comedy which serves him pretty well here. Although this film is entertaining his other films are better so maybe coming to America will win him new friends and motivate people to have a second look at Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
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Read More]]> Tell No One is the cryptic sign off attached to an email to Alex Beck (François Cluzet) a French paediatrician who would even give a thug the benefit of the doubt if his child was in need (this pays off big time later). Also attached is what appears to be grainy security camera video of his wife Margot (Marie-Josée Croze) entering an underground station. He’s shocked and incredulous because Margot was the victim of a vicious murder eight years previous. While he becomes convinced that she’s somehow miraculously alive the police believe that current events warrant re-opening the case and the good baby doctor is their prime murder suspect. The plot keeps you guessing as the mix of characters gets thicker to include Alex’s father, his father in law, his wife’s best friend and a titled politician whose son has a misguided sense of entitlement. As Alex closes in on the truth about Margot les gendarmes are closing in on him not to mention a small but cold blooded and efficient group of assassins. Tell No One is a pretty good whodunit that makes it easy to see why the Harlan Coben novel of the same name is such and international best seller.


 

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