Album Review: An Early Bird – Of Ghosts and Marvels
Here at Backseat Mafia, we have been following the career of Stefano De Stefano since our very inception when he was the front man for Italian folk/rock band Pipers. He…
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LFF Review: Knife +Heart
In 1987, at the tender age of fourteen, Venessa Paradis announced herself to the world with the single Joe le taxi. Two years later she was making a splash in…
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LFF Review: Ray & Liz
There are very few British working-class voices in modern cinema. It’s one area of representation which seems to have been lost in the mix. This is also the case when…
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Blu-ray Review: Daisies
I’m a miserable bastard when it comes down to it but one film which will always make me a little giddy is Daisies. Věra Chytilová’s punk masterpiece is brimming with…
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Box Set Review: Mott the Hoople – Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71)
Before “All The Young Dudes”, before Top of the Pops appearances, before David Bowie, Mott The Hoople were a brilliant live act that arguably struggled to transfer the tremendous energy…
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Incoming: Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How…
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LFF Review: The Guilty
Nowadays, most thrillers you see on the big screen have eye-boggling budgets, multiple action set-pieces and often big dollops of CGI. However, tension isn’t something that can be merely bought.…
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Blu-Ray Review: McQueen
The fashion industry is hardly the most lively and imaginative world at the best of times. Whilst it’s often dominated by a stuffy and snobbish clique, it’s always one full…
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Blu-ray Review: The Fog
Whether it’s sitting around a camp fire or snuggled-up in front of a fireplace on a dark and stormy night, there’s nothing quite like a ghost story to send a…
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Incoming: Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly…
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