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The Nilsen Files, less a documentary about Dennis Nilsen, this focuses on his victims and puts the case in the wider context of homophobia in the UK in the 80s. The papers basically blamed the victims and advances made by the gay movement and it meant the police didn't follow up on vital clues to catch Nilsen much earlier. Very good and it brought back a lot of memories, the year Nilsen was caught and went to trial was when I moved to London. As the Stephen Port case showed, not that much had changed three decades later when it comes to institutional homophobia in the police force.

Have been watching this tonight, it's quite good and goes into the homophobic failings of police and media.

It puts it more into the context of homophobia in that era, and is a different programme compared to the usual about Nilsen, and better for it as a result.

EDIT: Have now watched some more of it, and it is going forward from that point and is mentioning more recent stuff too in the context of homophobic police/media response, it is a good documentary.

It's horrific that a similar thing happened with the Port case decades later - in both cases if anyone in law enforcement had given a shit at the outset about the first victim, a lot of it could have been prevented.
 
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There's some excellent Partition documentaries on at the mo - the Peter Taylor one is excellent. Wish they'd put the original 3 parter on though.
 
It's grim outside so I'm in the mood for a historical epic. Iplayer has both El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire. Both are nudging three hours.

I've probably seen them both about 40 years ago. Which one should I go for?
 
Young Ahmed...Dardennes film about a young Muslim boy who becomes radicalised by his Imam and plots to kill his teacher.

I love Dardennes films but this one took some criticism when it was released. It's not as good as some of their other films but definitely worth watching.
 
I still have my kids copy of Mr.Magnolia (O mr.Magnolia, poor Mr.Magnolia, Mr Magnolia has only one boot)..as well as my beloved copy of Meal One (Ivor Cutler)
 
I just realised that I'd only watched half of A Very British Scandal, so finished watching that, very good, the misogyny and double-standards were terrible.

While checking out what else was on iPlayer at the moment, I spotted that If Beale Street Could Talk was on for 13 more days. I saw it at the cinema, very good film, cracking soundtrack.

 
This is BRILLIANT. Got everything I need in a travel type programme - proper down to earth, funny, exactly like it is in real life. Gonna rewatch the lot now.

 
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