Film Review: Creepy
It’s probably worth admitting, before I go any further, that Kairo (Pulse) is my favourite horror film. Before moving into mainstream dramas with the award-winning Journey to the Shore and…
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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: Allied
Allied is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited…
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Film Review: The Wailing
There was a period, at the beginning of this century, where South Korea was making the most innovative and exciting films in the world. Oldboy, Memories of Murder, The Host,…
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DVD Review: The Lovers and the Despot
As one of the few remaining ‘closed’ countries in the world, North Korea has continued to fascinate, bemuse, bewilder and scare much of the free world since the Korean War…
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Blu-Ray Review: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Criterion Collection)
Akira Kurosawa is widely considered one of the greatest film-makers in Japanese cinematic history. In 1990, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured his contribution to worldwide cinema.…
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Blu-Ray Review: Roxanne
There was once a time when Steve Martin was the biggest name in film. The former stand-up comedian, who came to prominence for his appearances on Saturday Night Live, made…
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DVD Review: Billions
There’s always been a fascination in the US with money and power; the epitome of the American dream. Whilst it’s not a unique phenomenon to one country, chasing the big…
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Incoming: Your Name
Your Name is the story of a teenage boy and girl who have never met, but who start to magically swap minds and live each other’s lives. Mitsuha, a teenage…
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Film Review: I, Olga
In 1975 Olga Hepnarová was the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia. As with Ruth Ellis, who was the last woman to receive the death penalty in the UK, people are…
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Incoming: Gimme Danger
Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences…
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