Incoming: Let The Sunshine In
Juliette Binoche stars Isabelle, a divorced single mother and artist looking for true love, in the new romantic comedy directed by Claire Denis (Beau Travail, White Material), adapted from Roland…
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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: Never Steady, Never Still
The feature film debut of writer/director Kathleen Hepburn, Never Steady, Never Still is a tender and heart-breaking story of a physically disabled mother and discontent son – each alienated from…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Magic Flute
2018 marks the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest film directors of all time. Very few film-makers can claim to have had such a profound influence on…
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Blu-Ray Review: La Chinoise
After making some of the most iconic films of the French new wave, including Breathless, Pierrot le Fou, Le Mépris and Bande à Part, Jean-Luc Godard decided to move away…
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EEFF Review: Another News Story
Whilst the profession of journalism has never exactly had a good reputation, its kudos is probably at a record low at the moment. UK journalists are often referred to as…
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EEFF Review: The Outsider
Tom Meadmore made small waves with his debut film, the rip-roaring How to Lose Jobs & Alienate Girlfriends. Working as a television editor in his native Australia, he was determined…
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Incoming: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Lily James plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about…
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Blu-ray Review: Neon Bull
The fortunes of the Brazilian film industry seem to be in a continuous flux. Whilst Brazil is a country which has produced memorable works of cinema since the 1930s, undoubtedly…
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Incoming: Funny Cow
Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of ‘Funny Cow’, a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom. Set against the…
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Film Review: The Marriage
It would be naïve to think that, despite the major steps forward taken over the past couple of decades in the UK, there’s no longer any stigma attached to homosexuality.…
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