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"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 Read the whole post here.

'A boozy, sweaty, violent, side-burned mess of a film' - Ian Maleney on High Rise Read more...

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

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

'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 Continue reading...

'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 Continue reading...

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

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

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

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

'an attack on the senses, a violence towards the audience that targets expectations of beauty, of wholeness, of integrity' - Ian Maleney on Jean Luc Godard's Adieu Au Langage Continue reading...

Paul Thomas Anderson's Pynchon adaptation is a beautiful and funny masterpiece of over-the-top story-telling, with a dark and serious heart, says Ian Maleney. Continue reading...

Patrick's Day is an interesting study of mental illness let down by a lack of conviction, says Ian Maleney Continue reading...

The conclusion to Peter Jackson's Tolkein project is "no more sophisticated than Die Hard, or an episode of Spartacus: Blood & Sand," says Ian Maleney Continue reading...

The Imitation Game is a false tribute to one of the 20th century's greatest scientists, says Ian Maleney. Continue reading...

Brigid Power-Ryce's first solo full-length contains "the best songs she's ever written", says Ian Maleney. Continue reading...

'None of it suggests Lanois is operating at the edge of anything, least of all contemporary technology' - Ian Maleney reviews the new album from Daniel Lanois Continue reading...

Hey, just getting a distro going alongside me new label, a few people here might be interested. Going to be stocking records and tapes from a few international labels; Digitalis, Experimedia, Further, NNA, Alter, Opal Tapes and a bunch more. Only got the first delivery in this week so it's...