Kill Your Friends Movie Download

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Based on a novel by John Niven who worked in the British music industry. Kill Your Friends is a nihilistic look at the dog eat dog record industry.

Set in the Britpop era of the late 1990s. Steven Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult) is an A&R man who wants the top job at his record label. When his drugged up fellow worker Roger Waters (James Corden) gets the promotion to be the head of A&R. The amoral Stelfox kills him and his dog.

However there is more to come. There is a policeman who wants to be songwriter on his tail, a secretary who suspects Stelfox has more to hide about Water’s death and his record label bringing in a new head.

Stelfox has to be at his malevolent best to get on top of the greasy pole.

The film told me nothing new about the cynically corporate music business where the almighty dollar is the bottom line.

The film itself is modelled on American Psycho. However I found myself getting bored with Hoult’s increasingly repetitive narration in a film that did not have anything new to say.Read More