I'd had this one my YouTube watchlist for a while without ever really knowing what it was all about. Just one of those things that you keep stumbling across in your recommended and/or the occasional post from a Letterboxder.
Honestly I didn't really think it was for me. I had dipped my toe into this sort of found footage/quasi docu web series before with the likes of Marble Hornets but didn't really press on with it because, being a bit…
"Monday we begin national broadcasting. You better have something to say - I know I do."
Not something you'd immediately think of as a childhood fav; a dark and adult drama verging on a chamber piece which focuses on the verbal rather than the visual, but it really was because, despite all those things, this film was and still is a riveting, raw and dynamic piece of filmmaking that gets right up close and shouts at your face.
I always…
The trailer for Hope dropped recently and if you've seen it then you may agree it looks pretty intriguing. I thought I hadn't heard of director Na Hong-jin before, but then realised I had seen his previous effort The Wailing and really enjoyed it. One of those films that has you gripped until the end and then leaves you pondering it for hours after, checking online to read theories about what it was all about.
Anyway I wanted to check…
This is the sort of stuff Netflix is really good at and the kind of content I can totally get behind.
A six part limited series created and written by The Gold's Neil Forsyth, this is about Margaret Thatchers war on the growing heroin crisis that hit UK shores in the late 80s/early 90s, enrolling very ordinary 9-5 style custom officers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the gangs behind it.
A very risky roll of the dice from Thatcher…
Proof that this is so much more than its one shot "gimmick", writer James Cummings, director Philip Barantini and co creator Stephen Graham (and others) clearly realising these characters were just too good not to explore further, follow on from that one eventful and very stressful night in Point North.
Far from feeling like a cash in, (four very taut, emotional episodes in themselves) this is very much an attempt at delving deeper into the lives of the other employees…
The attention to detail in this is staggering.
Makes me feel nostalgic for a time and place I've never experienced. Like the best summer that never was.
I could bask in its languid pace easily for another couple of hours, hanging out with Rick and Cliff as they watch F.B.I together.
By the end I'm so invested in the fantasy that's been constructed that I end up becoming quite sad because always at the back of my mind are the true to life parallels that make reality come crashing in.
Definitely Quentin Tarantinos most poignant as well as funny and uplifting movie.
