PREVIEW: Bad Boy (2025 Film) The Fight Beyond the Ring

Preview by Jon Donnis

Back in 2006, Britain watched one of the most audacious crimes in its history unfold. Armed men raided the Securitas depot in Tonbridge and made off with £53 million in cash. Dozens were pulled in for questioning. Among them was Jeremy Bailey, a fighter from Basingstoke already carrying the nickname "Bad Boy." He was eventually cleared after years of trials and interrogations, but the association never really left him.

That's the backdrop for Bad Boy, a new documentary from Terry Stone and Richard Turner. Rather than reheating the details of the heist, the film digs into Bailey's story, a messy mix of crime, sport, and survival. Born into trouble, homeless at sixteen, he found purpose in prize fighting and clawed his way up to become an MMA and kickboxing champion. Alongside Bailey's own words are contributions from his lawyer, UFC veteran Michael Bisping, and Stone himself, each shedding light on how the case and its fallout shaped him.

What makes the film intriguing is the way it moves between worlds. Bailey's time working security in the '90s rave scene, his criminal connections, the endless suspicion around the heist, all sit alongside his career in combat sports and his work building a gym in Basingstoke. It's not a neat redemption tale. It's the portrait of someone still fighting, both for titles and for a reputation that refuses to shift.

Bad Boy lands in select UK cinemas on 17 October, before heading to digital platforms on 20 October via Miracle Media. It looks less like a true-crime retread and more like a character study of a man who never fully escaped the shadow of Britain's biggest cash robbery.

PREVIEW: Vinnie Plays Vegas (2025 Documentary) Starring Vinnie Favorito

Preview by Jon Donnis

Comedian, quick-fire insult artist and infamous high-stakes gambler, Vinnie Favorito is the subject of Vinnie Plays Vegas, a new documentary charting his meteoric rise and dramatic downfall. Directed by Brian Burkhardt in his debut feature, the film offers an unflinching portrait of a man who once had the Las Vegas comedy scene in the palm of his hand, only to lose it all to a crippling gambling addiction. Set for a UK digital release on 18 August via Miracle Media, it promises a compelling mix of laughs, scandal and sobering reality.

Vinnie's journey began in the bustling Boston stand-up scene in 1986, performing alongside soon-to-be comedy heavyweights like David Cross, Joe Rogan, Nick Di Paolo and Louis C.K. His sharp tongue and unfiltered approach to comedy quickly became his signature, carving a path that led straight to Las Vegas. It was here that Favorito truly thrived, and where the seeds of his downfall were sown. Vegas seemed tailor-made for his style, a city that embraced his brashness and gave him the stage to perfect his craft. But as Vinnie Plays Vegas reveals, the same environment that brought him success also fed his worst habits.

The documentary doesn't shy away from the darker chapters of his life. From his long-running Vegas residency to the spiralling gambling debts and desperate loans that eventually torched his reputation, the film paints a portrait of a man both celebrated and scorned. Through candid interviews with friends, fellow comedians and those left burned by his schemes, audiences are given rare insight into the highs and lows of the Vegas comedy circuit, as well as the personal cost of living life in the fast lane.

Vinnie Plays Vegas also raises the question of whether redemption is even possible for someone who has betrayed so many. Is there a path back for a performer who made audiences roar but left a trail of mistrust behind him? Burkhardt's film doesn't offer easy answers, instead letting viewers draw their own conclusions about guilt, forgiveness and the price of ambition.

Hitting UK digital platforms on 18 August, Vinnie Plays Vegas invites audiences to take a seat in the front row for a story that's as outrageous as it is sobering, a raw look at a comedian whose greatest gamble was on himself, and who learned the hard way that the house always wins.

Vinnie Plays Vegas is on UK digital 18 August (Miracle Media)

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