But, if you’re craving steak, they offer certified Angus beef too. As you’d expect, the restaurant specializes in fresh Gulf seafood. The restaurant is adjacent to Waterman’s Marina, so if you travel by boat, it’s a great stop during a sunset cruise. Waterman’s Restaurant (14302 Stewart Road) offers an outdoor bar and patio area with a stunning sunset view. Savor some local flavor while overlooking the bay at either place! If you decide to venture away from dining al fresco on your beach or bay house’s deck, there are two great options for a delicious West End meal. Beach or bay, it’s as easy as walking onto your rental’s deck to watch the sun sink slowly over the water. Galveston Island is no more than 3 miles across at its widest point, so vibrant sunset views can be had just about anywhere on the West End of the island. We think the best place to enjoy it is sitting on the deck of your vacation rental, but there are other great Galveston sunset spots too – including “meals with a view” options! It’s a mark of how astute Hanson is that we also get early roles for Anthony Mackie and Michael Shannon, while the film’s downbeat mood is all the more bittersweet for the premature passing of Brittany Murphy, playing Rabbit’s on/off girlfriend, and the director himself.Ĩ Mile is available on Netflix UK, as part of an £9.99 monthly subscription.Every great vacation includes time to slow down and enjoy the sunset. Remarkably, while you’d have to figure this 50-something’s knowledge of the scene isn’t encyclopaedic, Hanson realised the importance of putting the energy and lyrical talent of genuine rappers (including Xzibit) on-screen, which, of course, finds its apogee in Eminem himself, who has a guarded, Brando-esque shyness that is electroshocked on stage into the fierce, profane wit of the rap battles. Crucial to Hanson’s success is his relaxed shooting style, going into derelict districts and factories, and there’s a moment of real poetry in a sex scene that’s scored to the cogs and pistons of the machines. Hanson lets this play out as an old-fashioned melodrama, as indebted to Rocky as to musicals, to fold the nuanced social commentary into an effective crowd-pleaser. Just as Eminem struggles to make his voice heard because he’s the ‘wrong’ colour, so he has his corollary in the character of DJ Iz, the literate, liberal philosopher who is constantly shouted down because he’s speaking a different language to his homies. Here’s a film that understands hip-hop’s roots in poverty and protest crucially, it’s set in the mid-1990s, before bling really took over as rap’s default setting. This is a far cry from the films that Elvis made it’s a social-realist, deeply political work about making ends meet when the government has given up on you. The result is that this becomes a portrait of a community that’s been left for dead, whatever its citizens’ colour. Hanson leans into the difficulty, referencing Elvis, Vanilla Ice and the Beastie Boys and even showing a scene from 1950s race-relations melodrama Imitation Of Life – to which 8 Mile, in some strange way, is a modern successor. Fortunately, the film knows that it has this issue to overcome indeed, that’s the entire point. There are moments, notably when ‘B-Rabbit’ (aka Eminem) is beaten up by a black gang, when the film plays merry havoc with politically correct notions of presenting racial identity on screen. The big question, especially today – when films are scrutinised to see how ‘woke’ they are – is how this victory of a working class white boy over his black peers, on their turf, plays. Yes, 8 Mile won an Oscar, but it was for a hip-hop song it’s far from the usual Academy bait as you can get. Credit goes to Hanson, who might easily have chased bland prestige projects after his breakthrough, but instead, tried to invest B-movie material with grace and intelligence. This is one of those ideas that sounded absolutely awful on paper – Eminem’s origins story, in which the rapper essentially plays himself – which somehow mutates into a film that isn’t just watchable, but a thoughtful view of a city and a subculture. Confidential working with Eminem? It shouldn’t work – but then, that’s what they said about Slim Shady himself.
WHERE TO WATCH 8 MILE TV
Watch 8 Mile online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Google Play Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy
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