Blu-Ray Review: Human Desire
Gloria Grahame was not your usual Hollywood star. Despite being obsessed by her looks later on in her career (to a worrying degree) her contract was sold by MGM to…
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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.
Incoming: If Beale Street Could Talk
In early 1970’s Harlem, Tish, a nineteen-year old girl, is in love with a young sculptor, Fonny, the father of her unborn child. When Fonny is falsely accused of rape…
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DVD Review: Tides
There are still over one hundred functioning canals in England covering over two thousand miles of navigable waterways. In their heyday they played an integral role in Britain’s industrial revolution,…
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DVD Review: VS.
Being a middle-aged white liberal, I rely heavily on the broadsheets to tell me about what the young people are up to. Millennials, it turns out, are work-shy, stupid and…
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Blu-ray Review: Rosa Luxemburg
There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard the name Margarethe von Trotta before. Despite being a leading light of the German New Wave, the Berliner has been over-shadowed by…
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Incoming – Alita: Battle Angel
When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate…
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Incoming: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their…
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Blu-Ray Review: Blindspotting
It seems almost unbelievable in this day and age that race relations in America have regressed towards the levels they were during the Civil Rights movement. Some of the gains…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Possessed
Alleghe is a popular tourist destination which attracts visitors all year round to enjoy its narrow lanes, beautiful mountains and tranquil lake. Between 1933 and 1946 a chain of four…
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Film Review – Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Whilst Japan has a rigid social and ultra-conservative society, it’s a country with a long, unusual and complex history of myths and legends. Shinto is one of the oldest continually…
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