The news of Andy Warhol’s death on BBC television in 1987 provoked a discussion about modern art at the dinner table with my parents who thoroughly dismissed his work while claiming that he was a bit…

Musician artist Cosey Fanni Tutti interviews film maker Peter Strickland... and vice versa, with no interference from us.

The first film I ever saw in the cinema was Star Wars - or at least half of Star Wars, as my mother and I were late for the London screening in 1977 at what I think must’ve been the Dominion Cinema…

Whatever one’s sexual persuasion, the consensus among film fans is that gay pornography is not only less prone to the on- and off-screen power imbalances that can contaminate its straight equivalent,…

A far cry from a John Hughes production, this is one of the less prominent teen movies from the ‘80s, assuming you can call the twentysomething James Spader, Robert Downey Jr and Kim Richards teens…

One of my earliest memories is of befriending a caterpillar in the blazing heat of a Greek summer in the middle of the 1970s. As it crawled up a wall towards a drainpipe, a voluminous and…

A film executive recently informed me that you can’t have a decent kids’ film without making children cry and though I would normally beg to differ, I had to nod in agreement in the hope of landing a…

Danny Peary’s Cult Movies book introduced me to the mythology of Werner Herzog at the age of sixteen - a director who’d think nothing of pointing a gun at Klaus Kinski and forcing him to complete his…

As with ABBA and disco, The Carpenters’ music needed an intervening decade of cultural culling in order to renew itself in sturdier and more enduring form from the ‘90s onwards. The supposedly…

An authoritative celebration of the past, present and future of queer cinema.

The ultimate cautionary tale for film schools, only I’m yet to show this rollercoaster of a documentary to my students, as I don’t think their egos would ever get the better of them. The ego on…

The son of one of my mother’s friends showed me Apocalypse Now during Greek Easter in 1990 upon renting it from an Athenian video store. It was our way of getting out of roasting a pre-slaughtered…