{"id":73,"date":"2012-10-06T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=73"},"modified":"2012-10-06T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:18:29","slug":"ill-manors-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Ill Manors Blu-Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ILL MANORS Ben Drew, director\/Revolver Blu-ray \u00a0<\/strong>In the long and prestigious history of the British crime film, how has its typical product developed in the 21st-century? Is the genre still alive and kicking? It most certainly is \u2013 and proof that the genre is in the rudest of health is the remarkable directorial debut film by Ben Drew, Ill Manors<\/em>, which now appears in a striking-looking Blu-ray transfer from Revolver; a transfer which does full justice to the eye-jolting cinematography. The defining locale of modern British crime movies is no longer the police station or seedy Soho nightclub, but the graffiti-ridden, drugs-focussed urban scene, usually evoked in the most unsparing and caustic of fashions \u2013 precisely what Ben Drew does in this kinetic piece. The tough narrative centres on eight protagonists living in Forest Gate in East London and follows their often hopeless lives over a course of days as their various grim stories perform an awkward dance. As a picture of modern Britain, this is a film that pulls absolutely no punches \u2013 but makes for utterly riveting viewing, even if its conclusions are hardly hopeful. Film aficionados will sincerely wish that Drew spends much more time making movies such as this rather than following his other career as a rapper \u2013 we have plenty of interchangeable rappers appearing on a daily basis, but few filmmakers with his obvious talents.<\/p>\n

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ILL MANORS Ben Drew, director\/Revolver Blu-ray \u00a0In the long and prestigious history of the British crime film, how has its typical product developed in the 21st-century? Is the genre still alive and kicking? It most certainly is \u2013 and proof … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}