Just One More Thing: This is What You Want, This is What You Get...

I'd like to tell you a little story about me and a guy called Richard Stanley.  Many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and the most Boris Johnson had fucked up so far was the buses, I was attending the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival at the Apollo Cinema in Regent's Street.  I had picked on a whim a showing of a 1990 film called Hardware, not knowing a whole lot about it, and after the film started late due to the guest who was going to introduce it, 2000AD's Kevin O'Neill, turning up late (whole other matter), I was really impressed.  That began a fascination with the writer/director Richard Stanley, which led me to a lot of fascinating titles… and a later crushing disappointment.