Our hidden gem miner Steve Charnock digs out more overlooked older content from the streaming services...
There’s the surprisingly touching British black comedy-drama Wild Bill, well-pruned horticultural crime thriller Master Gardener and the underrated decade-old HBO action series Banshee to choose from this week. All three are well worthy of your televisual attention, providing as they do a welcome antidote to some of the lesser new films and telly shows pushed our way by the likes of Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , Apple+ TV and Disney Plus . Why not give at least one a run out this weekend? You won’t regret it.
The late nineties and early 2000s saw an absolute glut of films from Brit producers eager to cash in on the runaway success of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Guy Ritchie’s cocky cockney caper inspired a serious number of lazy aitch-dropping copycats that would blight Blockbuster Video ex-rental bins for years to come. Some of these rip-offs were bad (The Business), others were terrible (Love, Honour and Obey) and a few were truly sinful cinematic aberrations (Rancid Aluminum).
Thankfully, all that tediousness eventually died a death and soon, a grittier side to London began to be shown on the big screen. Crime flicks such as Bullet Boy, Hyena and Kidulthood shaped a more realistic cinematic view of crime in the capital. Ironically, one of the best examples of this change would come from a Guy Ritchie alumni.
Lock Stock actor Dexter Fletcher’s remarkabl.