Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Harpoon
Not all films set on a vessel are tales of endurance, loss and triumph or involve a battle of wits with a nefarious sea creature. Whilst pitching ‘man’ against the…
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Rob Aldam
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Rob worked on a number of online music magazines, both as a writer and editor, before concentrating on his first love - film. After stints as Cultural and Film Editor on local magazines, he took up residency as Film Editor at Backseat Mafia. He specialises in covering world cinema, independent film, documentaries, and championing the underdog.
Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Kingdom
There’s nothing in the West quite like Asian historical action epics. That sense of grandeur which mixes fact and fiction to produce a glossy spectacle on a huge scale. Akira…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Hard-Core
With a myriad of streaming services at our deposal, a great many online resources and active film communities, it has become increasingly simple to watch cinema from all around the…
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Blu-ray Review: Asylum
Psychological horror continues to be the scariest and most compelling sub-genre because human imaginations can conjure up all manner of terrors. People have been labelled ‘insane’ for many reasons over…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: House of Hummingbird
South Korea was booming in the early 1990s. It was one of the biggest global success stories. Driven by a buoyant real estate market, Seoul in particular was rapidly expanding.…
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Blu-ray Review: One Deadly Summer
Iconic is a perfect word to describe Isabelle Adjani. The French actress had a face and persona you were unlikely to forget in a hurry. She had sex appeal and…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Door Lock
When people think about Asian horror, they often focus on Japanese cinema. Whilst some of the most famous films (Ringu, Audition, Dark Water) come from the land of the rising…
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Blu-Ray Review: The House That Dripped Blood
Whilst today the name Hammer Horror is known all around the world, it was far from being the only British film production company which was making world-class horror during the…
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Blu-Ray Review: Don’t Look Now
Nicolas Roeg was one of the most distinctive and innovative independent British film directors of the late twentieth century. He made some of the most iconic and daring films of…
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Incoming: Are You Proud?
Are You Proud? documentary brings together rare archive footage and interviews from across a spectrum of historical campaigns to celebrate the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) movement’s landmark protests…
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