DVD Review – Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
There are few more recognisable names in country music than Glen Campbell. He’s been writing and performing music for over fifty years and released more than seventy albums. Indeed, he’s…
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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: Sing Street
Sing Street takes us back to 1980s Dublin where an economic recession forces Conor out of his comfortable private school and into survival mode at the inner-city public school where…
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Incoming: The Call Up
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving…
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DVD Review: Journey to the Shore (Masters of Cinema)
Kurosawa is a household name for film fans around the world, but Akira is not the only master auteur who possesses that surname. Kiyoshi Kurosawa made his name making creepy…
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Film Festival Preview: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016
Now with Liz McIntyre at the helm, Sheffield Doc/Fest returns between 10-15 June with another marvellously diverse line-up. Once again there’s a brilliant and eclectic range of documentaries, including 27…
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Incoming: Departure
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week packing up the contents of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot (Alex Lawther) struggles with…
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DVD Review: The Last Command (Masters of Cinema)
Director Josef von Sternberg is best known for the films he made with Marlene Dietrich. Indeed, he’s often credited with being the catalyst behind her career. He cast the then…
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Incoming: Our Kind of Traitor
While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard), who unbeknownst to them is…
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Incoming: Green Room
Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking…
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Film Review: The Seventh Fire
Life in America has been nothing but consistent for Native Americans (I’m applying the self-identified term used in the film) since the Mayflower landed. From the first colonisers, through the…
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