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Rob Aldam

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Rob worked on a number of online music magazines, both as a writer and editor, before concentrating on his first love - film. After stints as Cultural and Film Editor on local magazines, he took up residency as Film Editor at Backseat Mafia. He specialises in covering world cinema, independent film, documentaries, and championing the underdog.
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Film Review: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

  • July 13, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Whilst today, Luis Buñuel is a household name for cinephiles and Spanish film fans alike, this wasn’t always the case. After the controversy surrounding his feature debut, L’Age d’Or, the…
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Film Review: Disappearance at Clifton Hill

  • July 9, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
There’s nothing quite like a good mystery to set pulses racing and brains whirring. Indeed, some of the most compelling cinema is created when the main protagonist is kept in…
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Film Review: The Beach House

  • July 8, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
The unknown can be scary. As humans, we are programmed to look for, even demand, explanation. When it’s not forthcoming, it can leave us with a hollow uncertainty. There’s a…
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Film Review: Spaceship Earth

  • July 7, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
With the success of SpaceX and a renewed global commitment to go ‘back to the stars’, people are beginning to dream again about the prospect colonising another planet. One of…
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Film Review: Weathering with You

  • July 6, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Outside of Asia, anime is often discounted as being childish or considered something less than live-action films. It’s not always taken seriously, and when it does get coverage is regularly…
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Blu-Ray Review: Hanagatami

  • July 3, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Film-making is a strange vocation. Unlike music, where your first album is often the culmination of a lifetimes’ work, directors can make film after film before bringing their pet project…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: King Rocker

  • July 2, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
There’s often no rhyme or reason why one band makes it whilst another never quite takes off. So many factors are at play but it can come down to nothing…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Me and the Cult Leader

  • July 1, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
On 20 March 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult, orchestrated five coordinated attacks on the Tokyo Metro. During rush hour they released Sarin gas on three different…
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Film Review: A White, White Day

  • June 30, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Icelandic cinema is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment. Whilst its golden age was perhaps the turn of the century (101 Reykjavik, Nói albinói, Stormy Weather), the likes…
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Film Review: The Booksellers

  • June 29, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Some people argue that in life there are two kinds of people. Those who love books, to whom reading is a part of life. And then there are those who…
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