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Blu-ray Review: After Midnight

Multiplexes are dominated by big-budget studio horror films which, as often as not, are uninspired and insipid franchises. However, if you look hard enough it’s possible to find low-budget independent…

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Film Review: Outside the City

When Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 it dealt a blow to abbeys, priories and friaries from which they never truly recovered. It also marked one…

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See: The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps

The Chills are one of New Zealand’s finest exports – born out of the inimitable Flying Nun Records era in the eighties and from a coterie of bands coming out…

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Film Review: Uncut Gems

The hype surrounding Uncut Gems has been ridiculous, but does it live up to it? In a word, yes. As was the case in Funny People (Judd Apatow, 2009) and…

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Film Review: Bad Boys for Life

Viewers of a certain age (including yours truly) were excited to learn last year that a new installment of the popular Bad Boys franchise was due to hit cinemas this…

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New Music: Max Richter – ‘AD ASTRA’ soundtrack

A sci-fi thriller set in the future, AD ASTRA stars Brad Pitt as an elite astronaut who travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing…

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Blu-Ray Review: Cruising

Following the masterful 40th anniversary Blu-Ray restoration of his lost classic Sorcerer in 2017, it’s now the turn of director William Friedkin’s even more unjustly forgotten 1980 thriller Cruising to…

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Blu-ray review: Eating Raoul

After the prudish post-war years and the stifled ‘50s, America was rocked by the sexual revolution. Which coincided with the free love movement and the emancipation of women from their…

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Film Review: Mystify

Michael Hutchence is the kind of pop star/rock God that the musically industry simply doesn’t tolerate today. In INXS, he fronted one of Australia’s most popular bands. During the ‘80s…

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Film Review: What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

Race relations in the United States of America are probably at their lowest levels since the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. 2017 was a particularly turbulent year,…

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