The Future Is Unwritten...

The Missus is an old punk who adores the Clash and it's a love she passed onto the Boy, who used to fall asleep in his pirate ship bunk beds listening to London Calling and Combat Rock.

My own dalliance with punk came when I was nine and myself and three friends formed a punk band called the Danglers. We couldn't play instruments of any description, but we had album cover artwork all prepared and another of our friends also came up to us and asked the immortal question: 'Can I be a Dangler too?' We were pretty rubbish punks to be fair.

But Joe Strummer wasn't and The Future Is Unwritten is a film charting the life of this godfather of the punk movement.

And it's bloody good, capturing Strummer's rise to prominence as the frontman of the Clash, his subsequent removal from the limelight and his return to performing with the Mescaleroes. It's not quite a warts and all portrait, but it's informative, funny and even moving.

In short it's a massively accessible film about a fascinating man.