Tag: Sacha Baron Cohen
[FILM: Review] The Dictator
The Dictator **1/2 Released May 16 Sacha Baron Cohen can’t really fool Americans anymore. Only the most blinkered pop-culture illiterates would not realise he’s the man responsible for Borat and Bruno, and so the comic potential of that formula has reached its limit. And so in The Dictator, Baron Cohen and long-time collaborator Larry Charles [...]
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 under Arts, Brag 463 (May 21), Film Reviews.
Tags: Film, Film Review, Laurence Rosier Staines, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator
[FILM: Review] Hugo 3D
Hugo 3D Opens January 12 ***** Cinema has been the consuming passion of Martin Scorsese’s life. Additional to his 40-year career as New Hollywood’s laureate of blinding masculine wrath, he’s the founder of dual nonprofit bodies—The Film and World Cinema Foundations—which are expressly committed to the preservation of films both classic and long-neglected. It’s surprising, [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 444 (January 9), Film Reviews.
Tags: Asa Butterfield, Brian Selznick, Gerard Elson, Hugo 3D, Jude Law, Martin Scorsese, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Brag
Bruno: the shock and awe tactics of a comedy campaign
The media campaign for Brüno: The Movie has unfolded like a well-executed modern military campaign, conquering the hearts and minds of the public. First came the rumours: in January this year, People Magazine picked up the story that Idol judge Paula Abdul had been punked by Brüno. When they asked her to comment, she didn’t [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under Blog, Cover Feature, Issue 319 (6 July).
Tags: Brüno, Dee Jefferson, Sacha Baron Cohen