Moby might not be the first person you would imagine to direct a film about vegan punks but he provides a banging soundtrack and speaks from the heart. The Punk Rock Vegan Movie documentary had its world premiere at the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival on January 20 in Park City, Utah. So, does it work? Well, it’s turned me veggie again so thank you Moby. It’s also his directorial debut and it’s not a bad start. Any film that exposes cruelty to animals, from the 1981 Animals Film to Andrea Arnold’s Cow (2021) runs the risk of kicking the butcher in the pocket, and rightly so, but this film takes a different path that is both educational in animal welfare and as an alternative history of punk. Comic interludes of Moby talking to Bagel the dog or playing the Devil in a mock news report punctuate...