Author Archives: Lee Russell Wilkes

Lessons from a Decade of Travelling

I was awaiting the departure of my plane. My phone rang; my mum’s departing words were ‘Don’t bring back a girl that does the ping-pong ball trick’. One of us had no illusions of what awaited; it wasn’t me, clearly. That call now approaches it’s ten-year anniversary, COVID sees me staying a kilometre from whereContinue reading “Lessons from a Decade of Travelling”

Is the reverence for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction justified?

At the 1994 Cannes film festival, the controversial young filmmaker at the centre of the violence in movies debate was about to win the film world’s most prestigious prize. The UK tabloids blamed Child’s Play 3 for the 1993 murder of the infant James Bulger; the country was busy reliving its video-nasties hysteria. Quentin Tarantino’sContinue reading “Is the reverence for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction justified?”