History is made at night

Mark Leckey's film 'Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD' is a collage of what he has termed 'found memories', fragments from ...

This weekend is the last chance to see 'A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance' at Tate Modern in London. The exhibition '...

The Workers Film and Photo League  (sometimes just 'The Film and Photo League') was a 1930s organisation associated with the Commun...

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...

Rita Tushingham and Michael York in Smashing Time (1967) 'Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be ...

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on this day, 19th May 1925. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by him with Alex Haley, was p...

The 121 Centre in Brixton , variously known as an ‘anarchist centre’, ‘social centre’ and ‘squatted centre’, was a hub of international ra...

Well you can now watch the whole of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film Battleship Potemkin for free on youtube . If you don&#...

The following text is still one of the best things I've read on Star Trek. It was originally published in a magazine called Melancholic ...

The Girl with Green Eyes , starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave, is a 1964 film based on Edna O'Brien's novel The Lonely Girl ...

Enjoyed Black Swan, a whole movie about dancing - what's not to like? If you've been living in a cave for the last month you might...

RIP Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart , who died today. He features on the soundtrack of one of my favourite films, Blue Collar (1978), i...

When Walter Hill's film The Warriors was released in 1979, there were fears that it would lead to an explosion of gang related violenc...