I'll wave as you fly overhead! Safe travels....let me know if you're back up this way, I'm always floating around the country somewhere
Boiling Point starring Stephen Graham, a 'one-shot film' (I don't really get how they do that). Brilliant cinematography and excellent acting performances, but I hated it. I wasn't sure why at first but then realised that it was because it made me claustrophobic - I just wanted to get out of the bleeding restaurant. My wife loved it, so don't take my dislike as a reason to avoid it.
Heard about it, never fancied it. Technical tour de force etc etc, but all I’ve heard about is ‘oh, all in one take’ - which should be irrelevant, and anyway, you can see much more impressive stuff in one take every night - in the theatre. Except that in Boiling Point they actually did it four times (wanted to do 8 but COVID intervened), a luxury you don’t get in the theatre. Not sure if they picked the best version or cut the 4 into one. Plus I’m Stephen Grahamed out. He’s a brilliant actor but I’ve seen too much of him, most ludicrously in The Irishman. As Marlon Brando said ‘we (actors) only have so many faces in our pocket’.
That's been around ages! Very good film....Try The Menu if you want to watch a film about a chef....really ****ing weird
Go back about 8 months and it was reviewed in this very thread. Great film. And from experience, very true to life…most kitchen staff are on the gear and it’s a **** job, full of aggression and confrontation. Did it for a month to help my mate out in the kitchens and wasn’t a great experience.
Hope he's not related to the poor **** that's been carried out of this boozer tonight by four police and an ambulance crew! **** me, thought I could drink but this **** was guzzling bottles of vino (probably **** plonk, not the good stuff Stan drinks) and is absolutely comatose in his booth. If I didn't know better, I'd think he'd been rufied, but no gain for some.predator here....poor bastard gonna miss out on a Rajpoot dinner tonight
Gold on BBC portraying the scumbag piece of dirt Kenneth Noye as a relatable man of the people. **** off.
Haven't watched any of it, is it any good ? Remember watching the Sean Bean 1 off version of it years ago, that was very good !
Very good point Strolls.....The media often take people who are of somewhat dubious character (stabbing two people to death is pretty ****ing dubious for sure) and paint them out to be “lovely fellas”. I always think the same of the various “drill” rappers I listen to......feted by the right on media as heroes...but in truth the vast majority are pretty ****ing horrible. Something my daughter hates to be reminded of.
It's something that's always bothered me. Some of the best drama - The Godfather, Good Fellas, The Sopranos - all require some level of buy-in, or empathy with, people who should really be considered to be beyond the pale.
Spot on. A true story by way of an example.....many years ago I started seeing a young girl who’s ex boyfriend was pretty abusive and a nasty piece of work. Didn't bother me as I liked to think I could look after myself, however she was pretty scared of the whole situation. Now this ex boyfriend was an acquaintance of some pretty high up nasty people, and the girl I was seeing started getting calls from a older bloke, telling her to watch her back and that she was gonna get some serious trouble, which she did when her car was vandalised. Now this old bloke was a serious player, and someone who was very well known, been on TV and was presented as one of those old time gangsters who would walk your granny across the road....etc etc. I could never think of those sorts of gangsters as being “salts of the earth” ever again........to make it even worse we split up and she went back to the ex. Just my luck, eh ?
Just watched the first episode of “Parole” on BBC, that deals with the inner workings of the parole board and the potential release of prisoners in the jail system. First episode deals with a murderer, who killed someone in a fight over 20 years ago, and a serial romance fraudster. Found myself torn from at one time being on the side of the prisoner (the killer), who genuinely seemed remorseful of his actions and had had a difficult and violent upbringing as a child...to then totally understanding the feelings of the victims wife and family, who wanted him to serve life for the crime of killing their loved one. Can people really change, people like Shamima Begum ? Or are they inherently bad and deserve to serve time for their crimes until they die.? Very thought provoking and gets you thinking......episode two on this week
Have a listen to the Gangster podcasts on Sounds. There's three series - the latest one on John Palmer (the guy smelting the gold in Gold). Paints him and Noye in a totally different light than the TV series. A total ****er. Other series are on scouse drug lord Curtis Warren, who's empire was so big he made it on to The Times' rich list, and Paul Massey, Mr Big of Salford who even ended up running for mayor. Serious criminals, and definately not romanticised by the researcher.
