Incoming: Elle
Starring iconic actress Isabelle Huppert in a career-defining role, Elle is already one of the most acclaimed films of the year. Huppert is Michélle LeBlanc; founder and CEO of a…
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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: The Creeping Garden
Name any subject and it’s likely that someone, somewhere, has made a documentary about it. The weird and the bizarre can often make for the most interesting and fascinating films.…
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Incoming: Uncertain
Winner of Tribeca Film Festival’s Albert Maysles Documentary Director Award, Uncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas. In…
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Film Review: Catfight
One of the major devices in action films is pitching two characters head-to-head. Man to Man. Mono e mono. Whether it’s Face/Off, Terminator 2, Universal Soldier, Batman vs Superman or…
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Film Review: The Love Witch
As any genre aficionado will attest, there’s something rather magical about finding a great low budget horror film. Whilst there’s a tendency towards gore nowadays, in the ‘60s and ‘70s…
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Film Review: Dancer
Regardless of whether you have any interest in ballet or dance, there’s something incredibly powerful about the athleticism, movement, poise and grace of a dancer. The amount of dedication, sacrifice,…
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Incoming: Certain Women
A portrait of three women living subtly interlocking lives in rural Montana, striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest. Laura, a lawyer living…
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Incoming: Viceroy House
British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of…
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Blu-ray Review: Another Woman
Whilst Woody Allen has amassed an almost unparalleled body of work, it’s fair to say that he’s probably better known for his comedies than his dramas. However, I’d argue that…
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Incoming: Headshot
A full tilt, all out revenge thriller, about an amnesiac in a race against time to piece back his identity before a crime lord executes the only person he can…
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