The Documentary:

The Movie:

Based on the book of the same name by Bernard O'Mahoney (author of Essex Boys), Sacha Bennett's 2010 big screen adaptation of Bonded by Blood is set in the England of the mid-nineties and it begins with a powerful opening sequence in which two men make their way into a man's apartment and shoot him dead. This dead man, Darren (Adam Deacon), narrates the picture and fills us in on how and why he ended up this way and through a series of flashbacks that occur throughout the film and not always in chronological order, we learn his story and how it ties in with the other characters in the film.

As Darren narrates rather distantly, we meet two of the crooks he's been hanging around with, Mickey Steele (Vincent Regan) and Jack Whomes (Dave Legeno) who get involved with some business dealings made up of another group of guys - Pat Tate (Tamer Hassan), Tony Tucker (Te...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Okay, where do we start with this one. Destricted is a tough film to categorize. It's absolutely an arthouse picture, presumably made with the intention of letting some of today's more interesting avant garde filmmakers poke at our collective id. And yet, it's more than that - it's also basically a collection of short hardcore porno movies. This is a mix that has been done before, but rarely on such a socially mainstream level. There are plenty of filmmakers toiling away in the confines of the adult film industry who mix art with smut quite effectively, but unlike the six directors collected here, their intent is to excite and to titillate. Destricted doesn't do that. It's certainly as explicit as you'd care for it to be, possibly more so, but despite this it isn't particularly arousing - it's just weird, and seemingly only for the sake of being weird. And explicit...Read the entire review