DVD Review: Snake Outta Compton
If we’re being honest, the world is in an absolute mess. Only a complete masochist would be able to listen to or watch the news all day without wondering if…
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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: Vice
Vice explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and…
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Film Review: Bergman: A Year in a Life
We live in a culture which has a seemingly insatiable desire to learn everything possible about the rich and famous. Social media is riven with people demanding and expecting knowledge…
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Blu-Ray Review: Diamonds of the Night
In a period blighted by massacres, brutality and war, without doubt the lowest point in human history was the Holocaust. Looking back through time it seems almost unimaginable that human…
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Incoming: Destroyer
In Karyn Kusama’s riveting new crime thriller Destroyer, the receipt of an ink-marked bill in the office mail propels veteran LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) on a perilous journey…
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Blu-Ray Review: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Bette Davis was an indomitable presence on screen. In a career which spanned over sixty years she became one of the most recognisable faces of cinema. She is undoubtedly one…
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Incoming: Monsters and Men
When young father Manny witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man, the tight-knit community of Bed-Stuy is pushed to the brink in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Sundance Award-winning portrait…
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Blu-Ray Review: Waterworld
Hollywood has a long and infamous tradition of producing big budget blockbusters which bomb at the box office. Two of the most famous examples are Elaine May’s Ishtar which flopped…
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Blu-Ray Review: Occupation
Australia isn’t exactly renowned for producing large-scale action or science fiction blockbusters. The notable exception to the rule is the Mad Max trilogy. However, it’s a country which has given…
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Incoming: Hale County This Morning,This Evening
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, Hale County This Morning, This Evening allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South – trumpeting the…
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