Interview: Jessica Hynes (The Fight)
The Fight is Spaced star Jessica Hynes’ debut as writer, director, and actor. She plays Tina, a 40-year-old boxfit enthusiast who convinces a local boxing instructor (Cathy Tyson) to train…
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DVD Review: The Fight
Films about boxers overcoming adversity are a long and noble tradition within cinema, but the protagonists of such films are, with very few exceptions, men. Spaced star Jessica Hynes is…
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Film Review: The Shock of the Future
Women are only just now beginning to get the recognition they deserve for their role in pioneering electronic music. Whilst this tardy acknowledgment is a sad indictment of society as…
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Film Review: Phoenix
The teenage years can be tricky as it is. What with school, girls/boys and hormonal changes threatening to take over young alien bodies. With all this going on it’s unsurprising…
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Live: Ride, Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 6 September 2019
It’s a spectacular thing to see a band pick up from where they were twenty seven years ago in the same venue with a seamless evolution and imbued with the…
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Album Review: DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising: Part 1
It would appear some of my fondest memories of Auckland (New Zealand, Aotearoa) have managed to follow me to Backseat Mafia. I recall there was a buzz about a band…
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Interview: Cédric Le Gallo and Romain Brau (The Shiny Shrimps)
Having experienced commercial and critical success in its native France, The Shiny Shrimps, a comedy about an ostensibly homophobic competitive swimmer nearing the end of his professional career who is…
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Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – Under Wraps
The mid 80s were a fascinating and fractious time for what would become known as classic rock. The two giant super bands of the 70s were no longer with us,…
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Say Psych: Live Review: Fuzz Club Eindhoven Day 1; Friday 23.08.2019
Following the success of last year’s event, the news that a second Fuzz Club Eindhoven festival would take place this year was greeted with great fanfare. As the line-up has…
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Film Review: Rojo
Latin America has never been the most stable region in terms of politics or government. When not acting as a microcosm of the Cold War, the continent’s recent history has…
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