{"id":728,"date":"2013-12-20T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=728"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:22:57","slug":"review-bullet-boy-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/review-bullet-boy-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Bullet Boy (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very poignant film highlighting the major problem with gun crime in London. If you have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bullet-boy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-729\" alt=\"bullet-boy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bullet-boy-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> just recently enjoyed the British Channel 4 TV series <em>Top Boy<\/em> you will see where it pretty much came from.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Walters plays an estate thug who has just been released from Gaol. He has a troubled relationship with his family and friends who start a tug of war between him relapsing back into his bad ways or finding a new life.<\/p>\n<p>His younger brother finds his gun and terrible things start to happen. I won&#8217;t ruin the film for you by explaining too much more&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting new breed of films coming out of England which ask very important social questions, ok so its all been done before (remember Stanley Baker in <em>Violent playground<\/em> in the sixties? David Mcallum letting rip with a machine gun?) but I guess each new generation has a unique take on its problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very poignant film highlighting the major problem with gun crime in London. If you have just recently enjoyed the British Channel 4 TV series Top Boy you will see where it pretty much came from. Ashley Walters plays an estate thug who has just been released from Gaol. He has a troubled relationship with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/review-bullet-boy-2004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Bullet Boy (2004)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}