Volver, an’ that

With canny timing, just before the release of his new film Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar’s Volver was on FilmFour t’other night. It tells the story of a crisis in the main character Raimunda’s life which disturbs the memory of traumas she thought she’d buried long ago – memories which become physically embodied in the form [...]

Dave Against The Machine: Our Time Or Theirs

You wait months for one of these to come out and then bam, two at once.  But who am I to understand publishing?  Ho hum.  This week/month/quarter I call for smashing the BNP with our own response to the crisis.  I’m not massively happy with it – a bit ultra-left in its panicked socialism-or-barbarism message, and [...]

You can’t fire a torpedo without breaking a few eggs

I’m sure we all heard BNP fuhrer Nick Griffin talk about sinking ships full of black people on the news t’other night.  That should go a long way towards dispelling people’s illusions about them being anything other than a squad of Nazi scum.  But what a lot of people might have missed is the damage [...]