DVD Review: Threads
We live in scary and unsettling times. Along with the usual suspects of power crazy dictators in charge of small nations around the world, we appear to have egotistical maniacs…
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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: Wonderstruck
Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has…
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Blu-ray Review: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Are we alone? The eternal question which has occupied humans for centuries. In the 1950s, the boom is science-fiction books and films, followed by interest in the space race, sparked…
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Film Review: Devil’s Freedom
Documentaries can serve as many things but one of their most important roles is that of providing testimony. Not every atrocity can be captured on camera. There are many different…
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Incoming: Thoroughbreds
Childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript…
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DVD Review: Terrifier
Coulrophobia is persistent and irrational fear of clowns. It’s a phobia that seems to affect many more people than you’d think. Whilst it might be an illogical fear, clowns have…
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Film Review: I Kill Giants
One of the most creative and innovative areas of new writing over the last decade has been in independent comics and graphic novels. Some of the most notable recent examples…
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Incoming: Love, Simon
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t…
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DVD Review: Song of Granite
Ireland is a country steeped in a long and fertile history of traditions, culture and storytelling. It has produced some of the most inspiring, creative and talented artists. Integral to…
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Film Review: 120 Beats Per Minute
Since being clinically observed for the first time in 1981, AIDS has been one of the most aggressive and stigmatised diseases to blight the world. Whilst now largely under control…
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