LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR

“I swear by the spirit of my parents to avenge their deaths by spending the rest of my life warring on all criminals.” One of my more recen...

This is the text of a piece I read out at the recent Alternative Press Fair in London. It’s something of an ‘oldie’, I wrote it to celebrat...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a film on the Baader Meinhoffs (aka Red Army Faction) proved controversial in its native Germany. Ignes Ponto, widow...

Yes, I am not exactly being timely here, finishing my posts on a festival which actually ended two weeks ago. However, I am due extra nerd p...

I must admit to having a fair bit of catching up to do with legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda, having only seen the early (if widely ...

Tom Stoppard’s account of the birth of Poland’s free trade union Solidarity was, according to the Cine-City site , “broadcast in the ‘golden...

NB If you’re worried about plot spoilers for a 1948 film, they follow! And yes there is more to spoil than ‘someone’s bike gets nicked.’ The...

Bob Dylan, 1967 Despite being another reprint from Ye Olde Print Days, this is also part of an occasional series where I eulogize some ...

Well Resonance FM anyway...

Alas, a surfeit of stuff has stopped me blogging anything new for a while – and may well stay that way into the near future. Some of that s...