HBO Weekend At The BFI

There are always cool films and events on at the BFI. This month to coincide with the launch of The Pacific there is HBO Weekend. I'd quite like to go to all the events though sadly Larry David's talk is already sold out. I booked tickets for David Simon's Treme premiere though. There's still a few left so get in there quick.

GET DETAILS, TICKETS AND THAT HERE

This World Mexico

This World on Mexico's drug wars is the best documentary i've seen since HBO's Cat Dancers. It was on BBC 2 on Sunday and was really thought provoking, informative and above all heartbreaking.

The shot of a dead seven year old is shattering. And the facts about American guns being used in Mexico will make your blood boil.

It's proper journalism that made me wish I was a real reporter.

YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY WATCH IT ON iPLAYER HERE

TV Recently...

Been watching loads of good TV recently. Red Riding on Channel 4 (in three 90 minute parts) was dark but brilliant and featured spot-on direction and class A acting. Paddy Considine, Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean and Rebecca Hall were all brilliant as their conflicted Northerners.

Free Agents (also on 4) is a naturalistic comedy about two 30-something media workers. It is frequently bizarre, crude and features some fairly horrible characters but still manages to be warm and very funny.

Finally i'm making my way through Mad Men's first series/season. 1960 looks amazing but at first I wondered if there was any more emotional depth to it than say Desperate Housewives. It got to episode six and the plot took a few unexpected turns and I realised its fairly amazing.

Like all the best TV it never tells you what to think or signposts what will happen next and it's concerned with Love, Lust, Money, Family and Power. All seen through the prism of a still rigid society- which will soon collide with the (swinging) 60s.