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Film, TV and media critic and entertainment journalist.
Editor at Valnet and FILMHOUNDS.
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What's the Alternative? - The Guardian

What's the Alternative? - The Guardian

Independent cinemas used to be a premier hang-out for students. But with multiplexes pushing smaller venues o…

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Interview: Renny Harlin On The Strangers - "I was just waiting to get to the third movie"

Interview: Renny Harlin On The Strangers - "I was just waiting to get to the third movie"

The Strangers - Chapter 3 is more than just the final instalment of a trilogy-it's the end of a single psycho…

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Black Hawk Down: Two decades after the battle which inspired the movie, here's our top 10 war fil...

Black Hawk Down: Two decades after the battle which inspired the movie, here's our top 10 war fil...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the First Battle of Mogadishu, Matt Goddard looks at the film it inspired, Bl…

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Satire By A Hundred Papercuts – No Other Choice (Film Review)

Satire By A Hundred Papercuts – No Other Choice (Film Review)

No Other Choice starts with a family barbecue. Two parents, two children, two dogs, under falling blossoms. F…

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Interview: Miguel Torres Umba On Playing Ben In Primate — “A lot of the scares were genuine”

Interview: Miguel Torres Umba On Playing Ben In Primate — “A lot of the scares were genuine”

When it came to realising the simian threat at the heart of its horror, Primate went old-school. With an eye …

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The Best Video Game Commercials - We Got This Covered

The Best Video Game Commercials - We Got This Covered

For many gamers, it's in the commercial before it's in the game. Consoles and their headline franchises have …

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The Demon Detective (Film Review) — Won’t Exercise The Exorcists

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The troubled exorcist is a well-worn figure in horror. We’re used to Father Merrins and John Constantines sacrificing everything to protect us from the demon horde, but, like the burnt-out, flawed detective with one more case to solve, there’s plenty of holy water left in the bottle. Behind its literal title and between some familiar story beats, The Demon Detective is determined to tap into that font.
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Ice Cream Man (Film Review) — Terribly Confected

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Forget the flavours in the van, Ice Cream Man is a giant playbox for Eli Roth to play around in. Day of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, Hannibal and more all get nods in this dedicated run of non-stop, brutal gore. But as he establishes his new media company, The Horror Section, the director who broke through with Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005) serves up something that feels just as indulgent as lacking in any nutritional value.
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The Mahabharata (Blu-ray Review) — A Storytelling Feast

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The major Hindu poem, The Mahabharata, lends a different weight to the word “epic”—at nearly 2 million words, it’s three times the length of the ‘Bible’, and over 16 times longer than Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’. It features war, betrayal, loyalty, familial infighting, and celestial intervention, as in those other ancient texts, but it’s also a major thematic dialogue about the defining principles of Hinduism. So this six-hour adaptation is a huge achievement on any level.
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