Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar: The Town: robberies, guns, and Boston, Massachusetts

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

The Town: robberies, guns, and Boston, Massachusetts

You know, I’ve got to admit, it always amazes me, sometimes, what people will do to get a hat, it really does.

Well …

Let me rephrase that.

It’s amazing what some local newspaper editors will do to get free publicity, it really is.

After all, getting Movie Night Adrian to stand sill, for long enough to show off the rather fetching Brentwood Gazette pop-out rain hat … ?

Is — or possibly isn’t — that hard.

Especially when Adrian, bless him, says I’m the Drama Queen …

Yeah …

Lets get moving on, shall we … ?

Yeah … … !

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23/2/2011

Yeah …

Moving … !

Something I know I meant to do, earlier today.

Until I got interrupted by the rather sad news that Nicholas Courtney had died.

Definitely a bit sad, that …

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Lets definitely moving on, shall we … ?

Last night was one of those quiet Tuesday movie nights: one which saw myself and Movie Night Adrian — complete with … the hat! — got ourselves together to catch a film.

Adrian, bless him, had managed to actually managed to corner something from Brentwood Library’s DVD collection.

The 2010, Ben Affleck film, The Town.

Which — at the time of it’s initial release — seems to have caused something of a stink, by claiming that Charlestown — a small, mostly Irish-American suburb of Boston, Massachusetts — had the highest number of bank-robbers, per head of population, of any town in the US.

Hmmm …

Yes …

That’s an attention grabber …

At any rate, the Ben Affleck directed, co-written and starring film sees Affleck as Doug MacRay, part of a group of old friends who specialise in robbing banks and holding-up bank vans.

And — after a job that goes a touch lopsided — manages to get himself involved with Claire Keesey: played by Rebecca Hall.

The problem there, of course, is that Miss Keesey … ?

Had been taken hostage in that self-same bank-raid …

That’s only the start of his problems …

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Now, I’ll be honest, here, if I may … ?

The Town isn’t the most stunning of films that I’ve seen, recently.

But it did manage to fill in a quiet evening, with a nice set of thrills and spills.

And does show us what has to be one of Pete Postlethwaite’s last performances, as Fergie the Florist, Charlestown’s menacing Irish mob boss: The Town is worth catching for that.

The Town