“Apes will rise” stresses the film’s marketing campaign, presumably since a title like Rise of the Planet of the Apes is just too darn ambiguous in a post-Snakes on a Plane world to decipher. And rise the apes do — eventually. Because we can’t have apes rising all willy-nilly, now can we? They’ve got to be provoked. They’ve got to earn it. So, in order to get to the promised [...]

If it hasn’t been spelled out enough for us with other recent films, surely it has been now. We know New York is a fashion haven and we know that women can walk around with the latest Prada bag and turn heads. Interestingly enough, so many of the subjects are writers with the world at their feet and a lot of time on their hands – in Confessions of a Shopaholic, the latest Carrie Bradshaw gives us a more eccentric line of thought.