My maternal aunt and uncle lived in Plaistow at the time and Iād been up a few times. My paternal uncle also used to live in Walthamstow and Iād visit. So didnāt see the East end in 90s and early 2000s as a worry! I can see the difference now I live here.
Yeah I know re flat roof pubs. Iāve not made the mistake again. We eventually found a pub that was like walking into the Queen vic and everyone was lovely in there.
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Ah. I was thinking of the Ian Dury song, Plaistow Patricia, from the rather wonderful New Boots and Panties album. Gives a good flavour of that area in the late 70s, but donāt play it in polite company 
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Add another recommendation for Ford vs Ferrari.
Watched it yesterday. Enthralling stuff, even if it is not completely historically accurate.
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6 Underground, Ryan Reynolds as a ādeadā billionaire putting the world to rights.
Mildly amusing in places but film is all over the place, probably best to avoidā¦
From the 1st shot it was like they believed they had a new Action Franchise. Just a mess unfortunately, premise was good.
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Extraction. Netflix.
A zillion flaws if I was a critic.
But without doubt THE Lockdown movie.
Great little film.
Brutal and probably a higher body count than all the Rambo films.
A Ripping Yarn
The Big Finish.
This is a strange one. Itās a type of DIY college film, set in Brighton. It starts with the usual āweāre making our own film!!!ā thing, two disaffected students with a camcorder. They spend the day pulling juvenile pranks and filming the reactions, and its rolling along quite mundanely into the evening college party. I was about to give up on it when out of the blue one of the filmers suddenly kills another student with a hammer. Very graphic and very convincing. You arenāt sure whether it was planned, he was nailing the toilet doors shut with the student inside, but the student breaks his way out while itās happening and carnage ensues.
From this point on, everyone seems to be fair game. The pair of them are knocking off all and sundry, and taking the corpses down to the boys toilets where the first one bought the farm. They kidnap a female student and tie her to the radiator in the bogs to witness the japes, and the toilet stalls are rapidly filling with corpses. They bump off a teacher for good measure, in front of the girl, by sticking metal spikes through the wicker laundry basket theyāve forced him into. Then thereās a bit of drama at the denouement which I wonāt spoil in case anyone feels like looking it up.
Iāve got to say I enjoyed it. Iām not much for graphically violent films, but this one was so believable it carries a proper punch, not family viewing but Iād recommend it. Itās different in a Mick Jagger Performance sort of way, and I found it quite compelling. Slightly reminiscent of If.
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Might have to look this up as Iām a big fan of If.
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Yep, hell of a film, that.
Iām old enough to have seen āIfā and āClockwork Orangeā first time round. Really like āIfāā¦
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What was it like watching The Jazz Singer on release?
Me too. I remember taking my wife to see Clockwork Orange, she hated it, didnāt get it at all. If was a great film, as was O Lucky Man.
I found Clockwork Orange frightening and hard to stomachā¦not for me.
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Cracking soundtrack though.
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Never saw it on release but my cousin played the Jolson role in The Southampton Musical Societyās production of āThe Jazz Singerā at the Mayflower. When it came to āMy Mammyā the final song, he when down on one knee in the classic Jolson pose and sang it to his mum in the front row, my auntie Ethel. Brought the house down. 
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I wasnāt in that, but itās a good film.
And who doesnāt love Glenn?
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And Tia Carrere 
Agreed. I wouldnāt take Mrs Fatso to see it. She wasnāt that keen on Last Tango in Paris tbh.
He blacked up?