We all like writers who have a bit of moxy about them, don't we? Hemmingway, Hunter Thompson, Burroughs, Bukowski. Rumour has it that when our own Mike Sheridan writes up a review he goes straight ...

In the early 1990s, John Healy was an English media sensation. Born in 1943 to Irish immigrants in London, he left school at age 14 and ended up living on the streets for 15 years, fighting and ...

Open City Docs Fest is screening the John Healy film Barbaric Genius. The screening of Paul Duane’s film, to be held this Friday (June 22), at UCL/Torrington Square, London WC1, will be followed by ...

Austin Collings chats with author, chess master, ex-prisoner and former boxing champion John Healy, the subject of new documentary Barbaric Genius, which opens this weekend. Chess photograph by Glyn ...

A gripping, if very obviously low-budget, documentary about the weird life and times of London-Irish author John Healy. In prison, age 30, the tormented alcoholic learned to play chess, became a chess ...