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I, Daniel Blake
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I, Daniel Blake

"This is a story about a new strain of an old oppression, a fresh alienation from a long-standing social order" - Ian Maleney on Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake
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High Rise

'A boozy, sweaty, violent, side-burned mess of a film' - Ian Maleny on High Rise
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Slomatics – Flooding The Weir & Kalceanna

'quality sludge from a band who know exactly what they’re doing' - Ian Maleney on Slomatics' recently reissued Kalceanna and Flooding The Weir

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The Lobster

'This is the logic of Venn diagrams, of Boolean gates, of OKCupid' - Ian Maleney on The Lobster

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You’re Ugly Too

'its untethered nature, its lack of specificity, is frustrating when it is trying to be a close-up of a particular fractured family' - Ian Maleney on You're Ugly Too

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David Toop – Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 / Lost Shadows In Defence Of The Soul

'an echo, a ghostly presence gifted to us by the powers of magnetic tape' - Ian Maleney on David Toop's 1978 recordings of Yanomami ritual songs & ceremonies

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Hilde Marie Holsen 'transforms the simply beautiful into the sublime' on Ask, says Ian Maleney

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The Look Of Silence

The Look Of Silence is 'intensely personal in a way that The Act of Killing is certainly not' says Ian Maleney

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Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls

'blunted fragments of a monumental whole' - Ian Maleney on Prurient's Frozen Niagara Falls

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

'There are many choices we can make, few are presented to us here' - Ian Maleney on Russell Brand's The Emperor’s New Clothes

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