Diary of a Bad Lad is the story of a frustrated film maker who gets way out of his depth when he sets out to make a documentary about two local businessmen who he believes to be involved in property rackets, prostitution, pornography and drug trafficking.
The film is released on DVD on June...
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I saw Diary of a Bad Lad back in September and liked it. A lot, so much so, in fact, that it was one of my top films of 2009. The film tells the story of Barry Lick, a frustrated filmmaker who finds himself suspended rom his college lecturing job. He takes the...
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As the first decade of the 21st Century draws to a close I've noticed a number of people have been looking back over the past ten years. This sort of thing always strikes me as being far too much work, so I am not going to. What I am going to do, however,...
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Diary of a Bad Lad is a powerful and effective films and one that is, by turns, both bleakly funny and uncomfortable to watch. It is also a remarkably intelligent film with much to say about the way in which the media often pursues sensationalism with little or no consideration of their complicity in...
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Frustrated filmmaker Barry Lick has been suspended on full pay from his college lecturing job. He takes the opportunity to produce a documentary about two local businessmen, Ray Topham and Tommy Morghen, who he believes are involved in property rackets, prostitution, pornography and the importation of large quantities of recreational drugs.
Barry recruits a...
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