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JUDEX On Blu-Ray

Published June 18, 2026 by Warren Ellis

I have always wanted to see this, and it popped up on sale while I was trawling through the bottom of Amazon the other night.

Judex (real name Jacques de Trémeuse) is a fictional French vigilante hero created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède for the 1916 silent film serial of the same name. Judex (whose name is Latin for “judge”) is a mysterious avenger who dresses in black and wears a wide-brimmed hat and cloak. He was possibly conceived as a heroic version of the criminal character Fantômas, about whom Feuillade had directed the popular 1913 serial Fantômas. The character has since appeared in other films, in novels, on stage and in comic books. Judex may have been an inspiration for the American pulp hero The Shadow, who was himself an inspiration for Batman

A 4K restoration of a black and white film serial that’s over a hundred years old. That is an amazing thing. UK only. But if you have a multiregion player you can probably figure it out.

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HAXAN On Blu-Ray

Published June 15, 2026 by Warren Ellis

I had this on VHS about a million years ago. HAXAN is a lovely little thing, genuinely strange, and I am looking forward to discovering the ton of extras they’ve bundled in here.

This is the UK only release: the US+ has a different version on Criterion.

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EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL WILD PLANTS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Robin Harford

Published January 5, 2026 by Warren Ellis

Handy Xmas gift. I let the garden largely alone last year, but this year it requites intervention, sowing and planting, and I want a lot of flowers and edibles (both of which have been getting increasingly difficult to raise), so I’m hoping this will help.

EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL WILD PLANTS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND (Amazon)

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SUCH SWEET THUNDER and FRUTIGER AERO

Published January 3, 2026 by Warren Ellis

I got gifted these two records by Such Sweet Records just before Xmas.

SUCH SWEET THUNDER is very much a chill-out record, improvised electroacoustic ambient. There’s quite a range in the three pieces on here, a collection of soundscapes that transition cleverly. I’m reminded of a few other people – there’s a flash of guitar work that made me think of Windy and Carl – but it’s very much its own thing.

FRUTIGER AERO is a shorter piece – I have to say, I’m usually allergic to saxophone, that most abused of instruments, the skronk criminal and soundtrack to every shit thriller from the eighties and nineties. But here it is pleasingly textural and carefully applied. I’m very pleased with both of these and very grateful to Such Sweet.

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HEROINE, Pauline Kim Harris

Published December 12, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Heard one track from this on the radio the other day (Deo) and had to have a copy. Shimmering and transcendent.

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BRIGHTLY SHONE THE MOON and GODDESSES OF ICELORE, Laura Cannell

Published December 12, 2025 by Warren Ellis

Next year I will probably buy more music by different people, honest. But I love her work and collector’s mania has set in at this point, I imagine. It’s basically muscle memory to buy her new work on sight.

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accessions 8dec25

Published December 8, 2025 by Warren Ellis

I am generally being good and not buying new books but this was on sale and I’ve read the first two.

THE WOMAN WHO LAUGHED, Simon Mason (UK) (US+)

PREVIOUSLY: accessions 30may25

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AMBIENT, Alice Thompson

Published December 6, 2025 by Warren Ellis

A bit spendy for a digital album, but the third track is worth the price of admission all on its own. Those big grainy washes and slow movements that have that indefinable Philip Jeck like tone to my (tin) ear

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