Sunday, August 31, 2014

A Movie Review: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.  Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is trying to launch a celebrity magazine in London.  His efforts aren't going very far.  In fact, he's mostly a pariah in the London scene.  And yet, somehow, he catches the eye of Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), an editor of the New York based "Sharps" magazine.  Though Clayton Harding brings him on, he still starts at the bottom.  He learns how to navigate through the celebrity scene of New York and see his star rise at the magazine.

Though there is a much better movie out there about the New York celebrity scene, this movie does have a low key style (actually somewhat like the normal Simon Pegg movie) fun to it.  And you've got to love Megan Fox (Sophie Maes), Gillian Anderson (Eleanor Johnson) and Kristen Dunst (Alison Olsen).

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