Classic Movie Appreciation: The Last Wave
Peter Weir's strange film about secret tribal rituals and climate change has haunted me for nearly 40 years. Read it here #JohnLake #TheLastWave #PeterWeir #ClassicMovies #SabotageTimes
LS13: A New Generation of Leeds Writers
LS13 an anthology of Leeds writers, released to coincide with The Big Bookend, gets reviewed by John Lake, author of the Leeds 6 Trilogy. Read it here #LS13 #Leedswriters #Leeds #JohnLake
Buffy: Vampire Slayer and Queen of My World
This appreciation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was John Lake's first article for online mag Sabotage Times and is still popular and perennial. Not surprising since there's a mighty legion of Buffy fans out there... and John is one of them. Read it here #JohnLake #BuffyTheVampireSlayer #SabotageTimes
Why I Wrote Blowback
Blowback, the sequel to Hot Knife, had an interesting genesis in the dining rooms of Ukraine's political elite and the cafe haunts of London filmmakers. So how the hell did the story end up playing out on the streets of Leeds? John Lake explains all. Read it here #Blowback #JohnLake #SabotageTimes #LeedsNoir #Leeds6Trilogy
How I found Leeds 6 by leaving it behind
John Lake describes for the Big Bookend audience how he had to leave Leeds to find the perspective to write about it. Believe it or not, the grimy Leeds noir world of Hot Knife first took shape in sunny Greece. Read it here #HotKnife #JohnLake #LeedsNoir #Leeds #Leeds6Trilogy
