Incoming: Slaughterhouse Rulez
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about…
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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.
Blu-ray Review: Candyman
It doesn’t matter what part of the world you’re in. if you keep your ear to the ground it’s likely that you’ll stumble across a local urban legend or two.…
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Film Review: Possum
Matthew Holness is one of the great enigmas of British comedy. After being nominated for the Perrier Award at Edinburgh Fringe two years on the bounce, he brought his most…
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Incoming: Bohemian Rhapsody
The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound, their near-implosion as Mercury’s lifestyle spirals out of control, and their triumphant reunion on…
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Blu-ray Review: They Live
With the global political shift towards the right and extremist opinions on the rise, we’re closer to the kind of police state envisaged by George Orwell in 1984 than at…
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Incoming: An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
When Lulu Danger (Aubrey Plaza) sees a TV commercial for this magical event, she is stunned when she recognises a mysterious man from her past (Craig Robinson). Unhappy with her…
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Blu-Ray Review: Night of the Demon
The occult has played a pivotal role in the evolution and development of genre cinema. The essence of evil, broken down into its component parts. The idea of demons, witches…
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Incoming: The Hate U Give
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighbourhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these…
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LFF Review: Knife +Heart
In 1987, at the tender age of fourteen, Venessa Paradis announced herself to the world with the single Joe le taxi. Two years later she was making a splash in…
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LFF Review: Ray & Liz
There are very few British working-class voices in modern cinema. It’s one area of representation which seems to have been lost in the mix. This is also the case when…
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