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Droppin’ Knowledge: UK Emcee Black Josh Releases New Single “Wannit All”
Manchester rapper Black Josh shares a new single from his forthcoming album, Mannyfornia, which drops June 10th, on British label Blah Records. The song “Wannit All,” features Sleazy F Baby and was produced by Metrodome. Josh spits over a sputtering, minimalist beat, with an assist from Sleazy. The video looks like a home movie and …
DVD Review: The Hard Stop
With the recent spate of killings of young black men in America by the police and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the atmosphere in America is beginning to rival the turbulent days at the height of the civil rights movement. The situation is on a knife-edge and one spark could set off …
Film Review: The Seventh Fire
Life in America has been nothing but consistent for Native Americans (I’m applying the self-identified term used in the film) since the Mayflower landed. From the first colonisers, through the Wild West and on to the modern day ghettos and casinos, they’re a group who’ve been constantly abused, killed and now discarded by the migrant …
DVD Review: Hard Tide
Gangsters, drug dealers and growing up in dysfunctional and anti-social families are the staple of low budget British dramas. Sadly, this generally leads to insipid, uninspiring and unoriginal sub-soap opera plots with soap opera actors. Directors Nathaniel Wiseman and Robert Osman skirt dangerously close to cliches in Hard Tide, but a strong central performance, some …
DVD Review: The Forgotten
Britain has a rich history of producing varied and gripping horror films. Hammer Films is undoubtedly the most famous UK production company, building a reputation of making high quality Gothic horror films between the 1950’s and 1970s. More recently, British successes include Under the Skin, Beberian Sound Studios and Kill List. Oliver Frampton’s directorial debut, …
Film Review: The Brand New Testament
There have always been religious films since the invention of motion pictures. Early films such as Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Cecil B DeMille’s King of Kings wetted audiences appetites of silent cinema audience. Since then, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and The Passion of Christ are probably the most well-known. In The …
DVD Review: Sunset Song
The translation of great works of literature to the big screen has rarely been a smooth one. Shakespeare has probably turned in his grave more often than any, but there are very few ‘great’ texts which have remained unscathed. For Terence Davies the task of adapting Sunset Song was even more daunting. Lewis Grassic Gibson’s …
DVD Review: Among the Living
Inside (À l’intérieur) is one of the best horror films of the last decade. The writing/directing duo of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury announced themselves as an exciting new creative team with a big bloody bang. They followed their success up with the slightly disappointing, yet still inventive, Livid. Their star is set to shine …
Film Review: The Propaganda Game
North Korea is one of the most fascinating countries in the world for me. This is largely due to the lack of information we have about the State. Indeed, much of our understanding about the reclusive nation comes almost entirely through overblown stories in the media. This is the pretence behind Álvaro Longoria’s documentary The …
DVD Review: The Visit: An Alien Encounter
If you ever get the chance, have a quick browse of books about aliens. There’s a whole cottage industry of ‘factual’ books about alien conspiracies, visitations and bizarre theories. It’s an equally popular subject in films but most of the alien encounters normally turn out pretty badly. There’s been much speculation around Roswell, cattle mutilation …