Film Review: Panic
David Gyasi is one of a (thankfully) growing number of young black British actors beginning to make their way in Hollywood. Along with David Oyelowo and John Boyega, they’re following…
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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: Punch Drunk Love (Criterion Collection)
Amongst the film-going and critical intelligentsia, Paul Thomas Anderson is vying with Terrence Malick for the title of greatest living American auteur. During the late ‘90s, Boogie Nights and Magnolia…
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Incoming: Indignation
Based on Philip Roth’s late novel, Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to…
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Film Review: Dog Eat Dog
Paul Schrader’s name will forever be part of Hollywood folklore. The American director, screenwriter and film critic has been a part of some of the greatest films of the twentieth…
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Incoming: The Innocents
Mathilde is a young French doctor with the Red Cross on a mission to treat Second World War survivors in Poland in late 1945. When a nun appears at the…
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TV Review: The Killing Season
With the success of the podcast Serial and the Netflix TV series Making a Murderer, documentary investigations into miscarriages of justice and crimes have never been more popular. Traditional confidence…
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Incoming: American Pastoral
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Phillip Roth novel, American Pastoral follows a family whose seemingly idyllic existence is shattered by the social and political turmoil of the 1960s. Ewan McGregor…
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Blu-ray Review: The Small World of Sammy Lee
London was a very different place in the early 1960s. No area more so than Soho. At the beginning of a decade which would put swinging London on the map,…
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Celluloid Screams Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
The mythos and terror surrounding ghosts, ghouls, demons and the occult has long fascinated film makers and cinema goers alike. Whether it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, M.R. James’ ghost stories, fairy…
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Incoming: Arrival
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – led by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) – is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on…
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