Incoming: Tickled
After stumbling upon a bizarre competitive endurance tickling video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story…
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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: Valley of Love
Screen legends Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu star in the poignant drama about love and loss. Valley of Love is out in cinemas from today.
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DVD Review: Conversation Piece (Masters of Cinema)
Italy was once the home of some of the greatest film directors in the world. Fellini is arguably up there with the greats, and the likes of Antonioni, Rossellini, Pasolini,…
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Incoming: Wiener-Dog
From director Todd Solondz, Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts…
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Blu-Ray Review: The In-Laws
Modern cinema is littered with gross-out and offensive comedies. We’ve become studio-fed by Apatow, Rogen, Rudd, Mottola, Macfarlane and the like. And whilst it’s brilliant to see actresses finally being…
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In Coming: The Confession
From supporting the Bosnian Mujahideen to being imprisoned in Bagram and Guantanamo, from the rebel training camps in Syria to the prison cells of Belmarsh in Britain, Moazzam Begg has…
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Film Review: Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
In the history of Hollywood there have perhaps only been a handful of actors who could walk into a room and command silence. Not only did Ingrid Bergman have that…
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Incoming: Bobby Sands: 66 Days
In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause.Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands’ emotive,…
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Film Review: Sid And Nancy
Punk was one of the most memorable and most distinctive musical movements on the Twentieth Century. Much more than merely a musical genre, it was, and still is, a way…
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DVD Review: The Hard Stop
With the recent spate of killings of young black men in America by the police and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the atmosphere in America is beginning…
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