Film Review: The Divide
Today, society in much of the First World is more polarised than it has been at any time since the World War I. Indeed, as the introduction in The Divide…
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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.
DVD Review: Miss Hokusai
There are a lot of people who view Manga with disdain and prejudice. However, the art-form, whether it be in the medium of comic, TV show or film, is highly…
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Incoming: Jane’s Got a Gun
A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him. Jane’s Got a Gun is out in cinemas on…
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Film Review: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Art and controversy are regular bedfellows but occasionally an artist will create such a stir that it will resonate to a far greater audience than their work attracts. Robert Mapplethorpe…
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Incoming: Arabian Nights – The Restless One
The latest from Miguel Gomes (Tabu, Our Beloved Month of August) Arabian Nights is probably this year’s most ambitious cinematic undertaking, and the most talked about film experience of the…
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Film Review: Louder Than Bombs
Joachim Trier is one of the most exciting and talented Scandinavian film directors of the last decade. Louder Than Bombs is only his third feature but it follows on from…
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Incoming: Criminal
The story of the right man in the wrong body. In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into…
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DVD Review: Three Days of the Condor (Masters of Cinema)
Sidney Pollock was a strange American director for his time. Whilst he came through at the same time as many of the new American film-makers in the 1970s, his output…
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Incoming: Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote…
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Incoming: Our Little Sister
Sachi, Yoshino and Chika are three sisters living happily together in a relaxed, tight-knit seaside town south of Tokyo. When their long-estranged father passes away they travel to the countryside…
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