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LFF Review: Eyimofe (This is My Desire)

To even use the term ‘African cinema’ when describing the diversity and richness of myriad national film industries scattered across a huge continent, is to say the least slightly patronising.…

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Grimmfest Review: Urubú

If there’s one thing that the political turmoil and polarisation of the last few years have demonstrated it’s that we’re increasingly living in socio-economic bubbles. Surrounding ourselves with likeminded people.…

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Meet: Niklas Sandin Of Katatonia

Katatonia are riding high this year. After releasing their fantastic new studio album earlier this year – ‘City Burials’, read our review here, the band have also just announced the…

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News: Katatonia announce new live album of fan favourites – Dead Air

Swedish band Katatonia annouce news of a new live album – Dead air due 13th November via Peaceville Records. The album will see Katatonia performing an extensive and majestic set…

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ALBUM REVIEW: A Lily – ‘Sleep Through The Storm’: bewitching tronica to guard us from where we’re at

Sleep Through The Storm is eight tracks of beautiful, bewitching, cyclical and warm electronic minimalism, intended to guard us from 2020

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Track: Blue States drop ‘Friendly Fires’ from the expanded ‘Nothing Changes …’

IT’S HARD to believe that Blue States downbeatz classic, Nothing Changes Under the Sun, has reached its twentieth anniversary – who pressed fast forward, cos it wasn’t me; but it’s…

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TRACK: Annie returns with first album in a decade: hear ‘Corridors Of Time’

ANNIE, the Norwegian singer-songwriter and DJ who soo should’ve had the whole world supplicant on the back of the brilliant “Chewing Gum” back in the day, is all set to…

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LFF Review: Wildfire

Whilst ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland might be over (although there are worrying signs that this isn’t the case) it doesn’t mean that those who lived through them can just…

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Grimmfest Review: Triggered

One of the great joys of watching genre cinema is the amount of films where a bunch of suspiciously model-like and relentlessly annoying ‘teenagers’ come to a succession of bloody…

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LFF Review: Wolfwalkers

Whilst animation has always been popular with cinema audiences, until recently it was only really Disney films which attracted mainstream attention. With the rise in popularity of Pixar, Studio Ghibli…

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LFF Review: Eyimofe (This is My Desire)

Grimmfest Review: Urubú

Meet: Niklas Sandin Of Katatonia

News: Katatonia announce new live album of fan favourites – Dead Air

ALBUM REVIEW: A Lily – ‘Sleep Through The Storm’: bewitching tronica to guard us from where we’re at

Track: Blue States drop ‘Friendly Fires’ from the expanded ‘Nothing Changes …’

TRACK: Annie returns with first album in a decade: hear ‘Corridors Of Time’

LFF Review: Wildfire

Grimmfest Review: Triggered

LFF Review: Wolfwalkers