Incoming – Gary Numan: Android in La La Land
At the end of the 1970s a nervy young musician topped the music charts. He quickly became one of the most famous men on the planet. Three decades of groundbreaking…
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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: Julieta
Julieta is a teacher of fifty five. She writes a long letter to her daughter, Antía, trying to explain all the things she has kept secret from her over the…
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Film Review: Indigo Children
Anyone who has ever had the dubious pleasure of watching an overly arty and try-hard low budget independent film knows there are few worse experiences at the cinema. Too many…
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Incoming: Cosmos
Witold has just failed his law exams, and Fuchs has recently quit his job at a Parisian fashion label. Both are going to spend a few days in the countryside,…
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DVD Review: The Bloodstained Butterfly
Giallo, as a genre, doesn’t have the best reputation for producing films that are either coherent or make a great amount of sense. Much of the dialogue would normally make…
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Film Review: Cosmos
Mainstream, unoriginal and tired, not three words you could ever use in relation to the films of Andrzej Zulwaski. The Polish director has been confounding, confusing and surprising since his…
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Incoming: Black
Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx member. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is…
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DVD Review: Sweet Bean (Masters of Cinema)
We live in an ageing society, and as the EU referendum demonstrated, you ignore the grey vote at your peril. However, the way societies treat their elderly differs around the…
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Film Review: Almost Holy
Matters of right and wrong in terms of ethics and morality are, by and large, fairly black and white in the Western world. The same cannot be said in Eastern…
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DVD Review: The Shop on the High Street
Voted as one of the greatest works of Czechoslovakian cinema by critics at the end of the last century, The Shop on the High Street was one of the first…
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