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“The microchip revolution was our rock and roll.” Nicola and Anthony Caulfield tell us about their new feature-length Zx Spectrum documentary, The Rubber-Keyed Wonder.

There’s a real buzz of excitement in the air as we talk to filmmakers Anthony and Nicola Cauflield about their latest documentary, The Rubber-Keyed Wonder. First, it’s world premiere night for their film about the Zx Spectrum computer and the late genius behind it, Sir Clive Sinclair; quite rightly, the Caulfields are thrilled that their work is showing on the gargantuan BFI IMAX screen in London.

Several engineers and programmers who alternately made or developed for Sinclair Research’s legendary 1982 computer are mingling in the foyer downstairs. There are even a few rubber-keyed Spectrums, hooked up to chunky Crt televisions, playing such bygone gems as Manic Miner and Bruce Lee.

There’s also another tinge of electricity in the air. A screening of Megalopolis...

The name Meyer Lansky usually conjures up the image of a mobster. But to Joseph Bologna, Lansky was a tragic figure. "He was a brilliant man who could have been anything he wanted, but he chose the wrong road," says Bologna, author (with Richard Krevolin) and director of the Off-Broadway solo play Lansky, starring Mike Burstyn. "Lansky was never convicted of a crime, he never served time in jail, and if he did it was for a misdemeanor. At the end of [Lansky's] life his father [symbolically] sat shiva for him, and they never spoke again. And he was unable to be buried next to his beloved zeda [grandfather], who had moved to Palestine, because the law of return that allows all Jews to be repatriated to Israel was denied him. For the real Lansky, it all might have been a façade -- he may have just wanted to go to Israel to...