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"Shameless"
2011
Shani Atias
 
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Kill
Your Friends
(2015)
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Kill
Your Friends is a British
darkly comic thriller set
in 1997 where cocksure
A&R manager Steven
Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult)
is in desperate need for a
hit music act to save his
job. With a new scout
Darren (Craig Roberts) in
tow, they go to Cannes and
sign up a terrible German
dance act Rudi with a song
with highly offensive
lyrics and a high price
tag that'll need to be a
big hit and they meet up
with hip-hop act Rage
whose first album was a
hit but two years and
£500,000 later, his next
album is still isn't ready
and his new direction is
completely shit. After a
terrible night at the Brit
Awards, Steven goes back
to friend and fellow
A&R manager Roger
Waters (James Corden) for
a night of heavy drug
taking to forget, but
Roger starts babbling on
about how he can turn the
company around in a way
that makes it sound like
he is the new head of
A&R, a position Steven
covets and is a fit of
rage, bashes Roger to
death. After news settles
in about Roger and the
departure the current
A&R head after the
Rage debacle, Steven is
given the job as acting
head. His first job is to
sign hot indie band The
Lazies, a band his
secretary Rebecca (Georgia
King) had recommended
previously but he ignored
and he is in competition
with hot shot opposition
Anthony Parker-Hall (Tom
Riley), who is a turn of
events, signs the band to
the label and is poached
to be given the A&R
head position. A detective
(Edward Hogg), who would
rather be a musician, is
circling him in regards to
Roger's murder. Steven can
slowly see his job
slipping from him and it's
about to get worse when
Rebecca works out he
killed Roger and
blackmails him into a
better job. There's only
one way out of the mess
and it's going to get
ugly.
Nasty
movie that has been
promoted everywhere as
like American Psycho and
well the similarities are
obvious, but Kill Your
Friends forges its own
path in a very British
way. Hoult is in great
form as the despicable
Steven, reminiscent of his
Skins character which was
also great and it's good
to see him playing this
type of character again.
Not for everyone as it
gets very ugly, is highly
cynical and there are no
likeable characters, well
in the good sense, but a
decent dark ride into the
horrifying world of the
music industry. Damn
disappointing that Georgia
King doesn't quite get
naked, I've kinda liked
her from Tormented
(terrible movie though)
and Cockneys vs. Zombies,
oh and playing a bitch in
Wild Child and she plays
nasty characters really
well.
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