THE CHARIOTEERS FILM REVIEW

I've been meaning to mention this all week but kept forgetting. I went to the flicks last weekend and saw Starsky and Hutch.

If any of you out there are 30+ and were glued to the original TV series as a kid, as I was, then you simply have to see this film. The car is there, Captain Dobie is there, the huge collars and horrible clothing are there. And as for Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the 2 supersleuths, they are simply brilliant. And Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear? Awesome.

It's a very lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek movie - one of the few of recent times which I have actually laughed out loud at - and is simply great if you feel like a non-mentally-taxing trip to the movies.

Unless of course you're too young to have seen the show first time round in which case you'll have no idea what the hell is going on and it'll all be meaningless.

And while I'm reviewing things..

FASHION REVIEW

If you are young enough to not know the original, then you will probably be sitting in the cinema wearing flares, like some of the characters in the movie, under the misguided impression that they are cool. They are not. They also weren't cool the first time around. And those of us old enough to have seen the original Starksy and Hutch are very smug about knowing this. We are all giggling at you as you strut around in them.