When Neon Neon – the brainchild of Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) and Boom Bip (aka Bryan Hollan) – released their debut album Stainless Style, a concept album on the life of John DeLorean (who produced the car of the same name), over five years ago, it …
‘Hotfingers Talks’ is a new compilations series by the premier Italian label. Out on 11th November, the first release has been created and constructed by Federico Scavo.
Always eagerly anticipated, Hotfingers’ latest compilation goes under the expressive title, Hotfingers Talks, and is selected and mixed by …
Antonio Campos’ second film, Simon Killer, is a electric examination of insanity – or at least peripheral insanity of an apparently sane man. Something like that, anyway. Simon, a recent college graduate specialising in the link between the eye and the brain (this is mentioned a lot), flees to Paris …
Films about schools and students seem to be the latest trend to sweep independent cinema, with Afterschool, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Goodbye, First Love all making waves in the past few years. But none of these films come as close to greatness as Michel Franco’s Un Certain …
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme D’Or in 2007 with his previous (and second) film, the abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Now, with his long-awaited follow-up, Beyond The Hills, Mungiu has not only surpassed the quality of his last film, but established himself as one …
Laurence Anyways, the new film from prodigiously talented filmmaker Xavier Dolan is 160 minutes of pure emotion, telling of the resilience of love under the weight of the world. Heavy stuff, right? Well, yeah, Xavier Dolan isn’t exactly one for subtlety. The film follows the titular Laurence, a professor whose …
This latest tour-de-force of emotion from agent provocateur Michael Haneke recently won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival – the most prestigious honour in arthouse cinema. So to say this had a buzz around it would be underselling it. With buzz comes expectation – in this case, massive …
This story of love against all odds is one tailor-made for melodrama, yet it’s the restraint of Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone that lends it its emotional heft.
The film follows Stephanie, a killer whale trainer and Ali, an unemployed single father, whose relationship blossoms following a horrifying tragedy – …
If I was 13-years-old I’d have been mentally making space on my bedroom wall for posters of this lot before the show was even two songs in. Opening on ‘Paranoid People Meet Me In The Middle’, MT’s first “taster” of their sound, which is accompanied by a video that gradually fades …
Having not learned to not anger Liam Neeson the last time he went medieval on them, some evil foreigners are at it again, with predictable results, in Taken 2. Like how Die Hard 2 just capably did Die Hard in an airport, Taken 2 is essentially Taken in Turkey; …
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