Blu-Ray Review: Four Film Noir Classics
Between the beginning of the 1940s and end of the 1950s, the most exciting genre in American cinema was undoubtedly film noir. With its mix of stylistic black and white…
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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: Ingrid Goes West
Following the death of her mother and a series of self-inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) escapes a humdrum existence by moving out West to befriend her Instagram obsession,…
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Film Review: Trophy
There are more predators in South Africa now than one hundred years ago. This is the contradiction at the heart of Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz’s new film Trophy. Like…
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Incoming: Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool
Liverpool, 1979: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the one person Gloria…
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Blu-Ray Review: Goldstone
Cinema hasn’t really painted rural Australia as the perfect place to visit on a vacation. Sure, it all looked rather pretty in Walkabout, but don’t be fooled by appearances. The…
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Incoming: Only The Brave
All men are created equal… then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit…
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Film Review: Maynard
When Barrack Obama became the first black American president, he created history. It was the culmination of the hard work and struggle of many through the civil rights movement and…
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Incoming: The Florida Project
The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six-year-old and her rag-tag group of close friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of…
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Film Review: Marjorie Prime
1 in 6 people over the age of 60 in the UK have dementia and someone develops the disease every 3 minutes. Last year, 18% of the British population was…
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Film Review: The Last Animals
We, as humans, quite often do the most unspeakable things to animals. If we’re not caging them for our own entertainment we’re battery-rearing them to fill our incredibly increasing stomachs.…
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