Author: Yogesh Gautam

The only way a film like this can become palatable is if its gaze mined the multiple painful ironies inherent in the situation the girls find themselves in: one gets pushed into ‘VIP escort service’, another into being a trophy wife, another into a honey-trap between a greedy cricket match fixer and players. These strands are all played out to the hilt, hammering out the message that if you will willingly do these things. At one stage in the film, which up until then has been swimming in a sea of predictable clichés about the ‘glamour’ world, a spiky...

Production companies: Unigram, Altitude Film Entertainment Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, James Corden, Georgia King, Edward Hogg, Tom Riley, Joseph Mawle Director: Owen Harris Screenwriter: John Niven Based on John Niven’s cult novel, this darkly comic feature debut by Owen Harris revisits a golden age of fear and loathing in the music industry. In the late 1990s, the UK music industry hit stratospheric new heights of success and excess thanks to a bumper crop of mega-selling homegrown bands including Oasis, Blur, Radiohead and the Spice Girls. Shortly before illegal downloads and plummeting CD sales brought the party to a...