Government leaving The Youth on the Shelf…

Why must the youth fight against themselves? Government leaving the youth on the shelf This place, is coming like a ghost town". Ghost Town by The Specials This weekend, I had the privilege of attending two screenings (including the World Premiere) of a film called Urban and The Shed Crew, at Leeds International Film Festival. …

Never Judge a Book…

"Never judge a book by it's cover." Never has this phrase been more relevant. I am a relatively new Fannibal. I came to the show through the discovery that an actor I greatly admire, Richard Armitage, had been cast as the iconic character of Francis Dolarhyde/Red Dragon. I knew nothing of this character, and so …

Red Dragon; A Review – My “Becoming” into a reader of a Thomas Harris classic…

I had heard of the "Hannibal" franchise - that iconic scene in the film with "Clarice" and the nightmarish image of Lecter with that muzzle over his face. So when I heard that one of my favourite actors had been cast as the "villain" Francis Dolarhyde in TV Series of Hannibal, I was shocked and …

On Love & Nature as perfect matching metaphors…

Nature and Love are perfect matching metaphors. Nature is life, and Love brings life. Both are about a greater kind of life force... Nature is the ebb and flow of forces; of life & death, all as part of one. Love is the complex binding of two spirits, into a greater whole. And Love is …

The Becoming – Internal Conflict & the work of William Blake

I recently had reason to re-familiarise myself with the work of Artist and Writer William Blake. This happened through a pretty unexpected medium; that of the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon. The character of Francis Dolarhyde, the antagonist of the Harris novel, is obsessed with one of Blake's most iconic paintings; "The Great Red Dragon and …