Pan’s Labyrinth
This dark post Spanish Civil War movie – part animation and part real action – is a gripping study of cruelty and imagination. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is a melancholy child with a…
Wah-Wah
Richard E. Grant directs a cast of luvvies in this sentimental portrait of his childhood. In the late 1960s, young Ralph Cameron watches his parents’ marriage disintegrate as he grows up in…
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Mutants are under threat again from those dastardly humans who have found a “cure” for mutancy that can be administered voluntarily by syringe or violently by a gun. As usual, the…
When A Stranger Calls
This 70’s remake is Scary Movie without the laughs but go for it if you like your slash flicks fast and familiar. Nubile high school pin-up, Jill Johnson (Camille Belle) gets the…
Lemming
Don’t tell anyone how this surreal psychological thriller ends! Hitchcock-inspired French director, Dominik Moll, presses all the right buttons. When a bedraggled lemming on an apparent suicide mission is found in their…
Transamerica
Bree, formerly Stanley (Felicity Huffman) is a week from her gender realignment operation when she discovers that she has a 17-year-old son, Toby (Kevin Zegers) a rent boy in trouble with the…
V For Vendetta
Alan Moore wrote his brilliant graphic novel classic in 1981 and set it in his nightmare vision of Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain. He hates this Hollywood adaptation and his name is very prominently…
Capote
, American writer Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) finds the idea for his next book when a newspaper reports the grizzly murders of an ordinary Kansas family. His investigations lead him to…
Tsotsi
Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae), a young South African hoodlum steals a car after shooting its female driver but finds her baby on the back seat. His paternal and criminal instincts battle it out…
Junebug
When David (Alessandro Nivola) brings sophisticated Chicago new wife Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) home to stay with his family in rural North Carolina, everyone is uncomfortable except David’s innocent and extrovert sister-in-law Ashley…
Lewes – My Home Town
Here are some photographs that I have taken around my home town, Lewes, over the last two or three years. Lewes, in the United Kingdom, is the country town of East Sussex…
Out in my garden through the year
I live in Lewes in East Sussex in the South of England and I have been building a new garden in the small space at the back of my Georgian terraced house.…
I am Colin Bell, an Anglo-Irish European citizen based in the UK. I am a novelist and poet, previously a TV producer-director of arts programmes for British, American, German and Japanese broadcasters. I am also known as the blogger Wolfie Wolfgang. My two novels are Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) and Blue Notes, Still Frames (Ward Wood Publishing, 2017). They are both available in paperback or as Kindle editions. My debut poetry collection, Remembering Blue (Ward Wood Publishing 2019) is now available. My poetry has been published in various journals and anthologies in the UK and the USA.
Remembering Blue is the debut poetry collection by Colin Bell, whose novels Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love and Blue Notes, Still Frames are also published by Ward Wood.
'These poems were written during ten years recovering from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
'The poems began before I left hospital. They document, often tangentially, that period, from awakening out of a six-hour coma, through several years of rehabilitation, remembering and decoding - the good things as well as the bad: childhood and adolescence revisited, adult relationships reassessed, and most significantly, what is important now that I am fully recovered.
'Awakening from that death-like coma was a rebirth. When things were difficult, it helped to remember blue.'
- Colin Bell
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It's Brighton in 1994 Busker Joe lives on the beach with his flute and his troubled Goth girlfriend, Victoria, who’s a singer. He borrows a bath towel for her from Rachel and Alan, a prosperous young couple from the rapidly growing world of computers. The meeting will change all their lives…and other lives too.
There’s Harry, a beach bum drummer; Nico, a transient American who takes revealing photographs of passers-by; Kanti and Diep, mysterious artist twins from Nepal; Lionel and John who reveal more than their bodies on the nudist beach; and pub landladies Jacqueline and Rosemary who top up their income by dabbling in the sex trade.
Joe is always there, somewhere, weaving more than melodies with his flute.
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It's 1967 and the start of the Summer of Love. In Brighton, Stephen Dearsley is tempted and intimidated by the way his generation is casting off traditional ways of dress along with the old ways of thinking. His ambition to become a biographer is fulfilled when he's commissioned to research the life story of the mysterious Austin Randolph.
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