What would you say, which sunglasses had the most memorable appearance in the movies? Ray-Ban in Top Gun, Oakley in Mission: Impossible 2, Oliver Peoples in Fight Club, several slick and modern…
Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey? I haven’t. Yet. But I might, just because there were 40 million copies of the series sold worldwide and I’m curious what all the fuss…
We all know that there are massive restrictions when it comes to the use of Olympic symbols and advertising in the Olympic venues and events. Only a handful of Olympic sponsors and…
As we heard the news that British movie director Danny Boyle would be responsible for London 2012’s opening ceremony, we expected that his screenplay would include some elements of modern culture, rather…
This blog post is written for all hipster readers of Brands & Films. Just kidding – it’s about a piece of photo history that was immensely popular, became almost extinct, but is…
American Reunion is the fourth and hopefully the last installment of the American Pie series. It started in 1999 with the hugely successful movie American Pie, which was made for a meager…
A few days ago I published blog post Product placement in pictures: 21 Jump Street where I showed some of the most notable examples of product placement from viagra perscription online the…
21 Jump Street is a 2012 remake of the popular ‘90s TV show of the same name. It stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two young-looking cops who were transferred to…
When Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner scored his second goal vs Portugal in the European Football Championship a few days ago, he lifted his jersey and lowered his shorts. There wasn’t wearing anything…
The question above is rhetorical, I know. But one certain T-shirt has now appeared in one hit TV show and one fairly successful Hollywood movie. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Nerdy Elephant…
Those of you who have been watching HBO’s show Girls probably know that Marnie’s ex-boyfriend Charlie has a band called Questionable Goods. It was first mentioned in the fourth episode when they…
Do you know that one of the reasons why Beats by Dr. Dre headphones look cool is the fact that we can see several celebrities wearing them? I don’t know when it…
Brands&Films has been covering Mad Men very closely, mainly from the product placement point of view. But the series isn’t interesting just from that aspect, but also as a character study, relationship…
Chronicle is a 2012 science fiction movie that represents one of the finest movies from the “found footage” subgenre. The definition of found footage from Wikipedia states that “found footage is a…
The latest issue of Ekran, Slovenian monthly magazine for film and television, featured my story about set-jetting “Where lives … Lisbeth Salander?” In the article I’ve described this relatively new phenomenon and…