Incoming: The Dartmoor Killing
Susan and Becky’s plans for a quiet weekend on Dartmoor are de-railed by the psychological and sexual mind games of a charming stranger, Chris. Shocking secrets, recent and deeply buried,…
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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.
Film Review: Horse Money
A Pedro Costa film is not a fun night out at the cinema with a bucket of popcorn as big as your face – you’d probably choke. He makes films…
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Film Festival Preview: Celluloid Screams 2015
Celluloid Screams, Sheffield’s horror film festival, returns to the Showroom Cinema over the weekend of 23-25 October. Now in its seventh year the festival is in rude health. 2015 sees…
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Film Review: The Messenger
Statistically, the British Film Industry appears to be in rude health. Over 150 films were made in the last year and the amount of investment continues to rise. In reality,…
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Incoming: A Girl at My Door
Young-nam was a top graduate of the Korean police academy, but due to misconduct is transferred to a post at a small seaside village. On her first patrol she encounters…
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Film Review: Tangerines
Most wars are bloody stupid, they really are. Young men and women fighting over land based on some random moment in history when it ‘belonged’ to this country or that…
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DVD Review: Hard To Be A God
The writings of Stanislaw Lem and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are as important to Eastern European Science-Fiction as H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke are to the West. Andrei Tarkovsky most…
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Incoming: In Cold Blood
Adapting Truman Capote’s true-crime novel about the senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas, In Cold Blood is a grimly authentic American horror story. Shot in the same house,…
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DVD Review: Eyewitness
Since Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy took the publishing industry by storm and the character of Lisbeth Salander became a household name, there’s been a flourishing industry for Nordic Noir. Whilst…
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Incoming: Legend
1960s icons the Krays live again through the double-barrelled performance of Tom Hardy as he takes on the roles of both Reggie and Ronnie. Legend is out in cinemas today.
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