adminWelcome to another weekend. I hope last week was fun and intriguing. Sorry about the weather which was somehow unreliable and unpredictable. This week I am focusing on the hats that many are donning in town, the trendy is off the hook. According to fashion analyst, Jerome the hat is called Happy hats because of its nature.
The good thing about the hats, not the fedora type but those with long cover, can suit on anything, any fashion style.
Firstly, it was made famous by Pharell Williams although Chris Brown toned it down in the cool style.
It is true that many of pop’s royalty are trading in their crowns for custom-made toppers by Los Angeles hat designer Nick Fouquet.
Pharrell Williams and Madonna both took the Grammy stage this year wearing his one-of-a-kind designs, and Chris Brown, Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway also counted themselves as fans.
“Hats are the pinnacle of elegance in so many ways, both for their fashion and utilitarian purposes,” said Fouquet the hat-maker whose studio is tucked away off Venice’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard.
The hats come in different colors with white so far being rated the best. I bought one for myself at Hip-hop store along George Silundika which is going for US$20 while on eBay they are going for US$19.20.
Big Screen Review
Last week together with the boys, I took time to visit the Westgate complex for lunch then decided to go to the Ster Kinekor for the movies. We were happy to receive the news that Transporter Refuelled (six) is now in cinemas. We couldn’t resist the opportunity and watched the movie which is 96 minutes long.
Well, now that the 2015 summer movie derby has started, Jason Statham can be named one of its biggest winners, I must say. Although we might seem late when it comes to catching up, Jason entered the season riding high on the mammoth success of “Furious 7,” the latest instalment of the shockingly durable franchise in which he played the main bad guy.
Later on, he appeared in the hit comedy “Spy” and scored many of its biggest laughs by deftly sending up his tough guy screen persona to hilarious effect. By the way, the mentioned movies have been shown at Ster Kinekor theatres.
Now, with the arrival of “The Transporter Refuelled,” the latest instalment of the action film series from one-man production slate Luc Besson, Statham seems likely to receive some of the best reviews of his entire career.
Of course, he isn’t actually in the film at all — the rumour is that he turned it down after being offered a lower salary than his previous go-around and no opportunity to read the script beforehand — but once people get a load of this listless retread, they will no doubt fall all over themselves in praising both the earlier ones and his significant contributions to them as a way of underscoring just how useless this one really is.
Frank Martin, an ex-Special Forces soldier who now resides in the south of France and makes a ridiculously lucrative living as a top-notch getaway driver who is, naturally, the best at his job and, naturally, lives by a certain set of rules that he is always ready to preach about at the drop of a hat.
Since most of his jobs seem to end up with him in the middle of high-speed and high-profile car chases resulting in millions of Euros in property damage, one might argue that he is more lucky than skilled but that is a debate for another time.
As story opens, Frank (now played by Ed Skrein) is about to spend some time with his recently retired father (Ray Stevenson) when he is hired by the super-sexy Anna (Loan Chabanol) to pick her and a couple of packages up outside of a bank.
The ‘packages’ turn out to be her equally glam cohorts Gina (Gabriella Wright) and Qiao (Wenxia Yu) and they have just robbed a Russian gangster of millions of dollars.
It turns out that the three, along with additional babe Maria (Tatiana Pajkovic), are prostitutes who have decided to break free of Karasov (Radivoje Bukvic), the crime kingpin who has enslaved them since they were children, by stealing the ill-gotten gains belonging to him and his associates through various elaborate means.
To do this, they need Frank’s help and to ensure his compliance, they take his old man hostage.
To be honest, this storyline is not noticeably bad in theory than any of the other “Transporter” films — the characters are as black-and-white as can be, the narrative is little more than a laundry line to connect the action beats and the entire enterprise is noticeably less complicated than ordering a takeaway.
Actually, I kind of liked those earlier instalments, as I enjoy much of Luc Besson’s composition, because as cinematic eye candy went, they were of the specialist variety — the action sequences moved with a combination of grace and giddiness that meshed well with Besson’s fondness for salting the carnage with goof-ball humour.
Besson may still have an interest in the franchise — he produced and co-wrote the screenplay — but his connection to the material seems tenuous at best. I will give him four stars although somehow it seemed a bore.
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