REBEL DREAD
Cert 15 ★★★ In cinemas now
There’s some pretty relentless name-dropping in punk filmmaker Don Letts’ exhaustive documentary about himself.
He recounts becoming bezzie mates with Malcolm McLaren, going to gigs with Vivienne Westwood and taking a trip to Jamaica with John Lydon. It was these connections (along with his swagger and good looks) that took Letts from behind the counter of a Chelsea clothes shop to the forefront of the UK punk scene.
A flabby middle section covering his time with Big Audio Dynamite is for fans only, but Letts is at his most engaging when discussing the racial politics and music cultures of London in the 60s and 70s.