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Social Climbing, Social Division : High Rise (Film)

17/07/2016

A unique and dazzling vision of a dystopian Britain on the brink of social meltdown...

Stylotone luxury vinyl edition of Khartoum 620

Soundtracking the Great Game: (Stylotone Vinyl Reissue of Khartoum)

28/05/2016

Frank Cordell's epic soundtrack receives a lavish vinyl reissue...

The Last Man on the Moon

04/04/2016

Gene Kernan was the last man on the moon. This is his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss....

A Battle of Wills, and Bowels (The Smuggler)

20/02/2016

An outlandish premise, played with subltety, The Smuggler teases unlikely laughs from the basest of subjects. Review...

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Film)

22/01/2016

The story that proved we CAN fight Big Pharma, Attacking the Devil is a rallying cry to the spirit of truth...

Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan

20/01/2016

Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm...

Doing the Cartoon Nasty: Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt (Part Two)

05/11/2015

Bazooka Joe is a one eyed boy who heads a secret society and is named after a powerful projectile weapon. He was given life by an ex-pornographer then wrapped in wax and sold to children....

Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt

27/10/2015

By the roaring twenties a cinematic lens was steadily streaming increasingly deranged and lusty images out into the hinterlands of dullsville USA...

Guilt, loss and blame in smalltown America (Little Accidents)

25/09/2015

A bleak smalltown film, centred around a tragic mining accident...

Documenting The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris)

02/09/2015

LA’s early hardcore punk, eighties hair metal and the gutter-punk scene, lovingly filmed by Penelope Spheeris...

Desiree Akhavan in Appropriate Behaviour 2

Don’t give me your lesbian orphan propaganda! (Appropriate Behaviour)

28/06/2015

Appropriate Behaviour is indication of an exceptionally strong new filmmaking talent....

I’m not particularly interested in redoing old films (Colin Vaines)

27/01/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”C/dropcapolin Vaines: writer, educator, film producer, cigar smoker and bon vivant is a busy man and his inscrutable demeanour contains an...

Gallon Drunk [Interview]

18/04/2014

In the late afternoon, on the last day of winter, James Johnston and Trebuchet’s Kailas caught up to talk over the reinvigoration of Gallon Drunk and the ghosts of the past....

Life of Pi: Review

19/12/2012

Ultimately, Life of Pi as film is a visual complement to Yann Martel's story as opposed to a fresh telling of its own. But what a visual complement it is....

London: The Modern Babylon [Film]

07/09/2012

Temple’s film is aimed at middle-aged armchair warriors, like himself, and clumsily manipulates the moving image to reinforce left wing stereotypes. Churchill was BAD. Thatcher was BAD. Ken...

Beyond Histrionics: Film Heroes with Epic Attitude

24/12/2010

Who crushed Leonardo's balls? Made Jackie Chan cry? Let Angelina watch her husband die? These questions and more will be answered. This week, due to thoughts of not providing an answer to last...