Blu-Ray Review: Angela Mao: Hapkido and Lady Whirlwind
Although Martial arts films played an important role in Asian cinema since the end of World War II, it wasn’t until the golden age of the late 1970s that they…
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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.
VIFF Review: A Piece of Sky
Relationships are hard. You can meet someone, be swept off your feet, have a whirlwind romance and then look forward to the rest of your lives together. No one gets…
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Fantastic Fest Review: The Antares Paradox
Is there anybody out there? It’s a question which has tasked human minds for millennia. While we have looked to the stars for thousands of years, the need for something…
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Film Review: The Last Out
Sport have always been seen as a way out. A way for young adults from poor backgrounds to escape a lifetime of poverty or crime. A way to earn money…
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GFF Review: No Looking Back
As the arguments over nurture versus nature rumble on, the likely ‘correct’ answer seems to be somewhere in the middle. We inherit the genes of our parents which influence many…
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GFF Review: The Execution
There’s something intrinsically fascinating about serial killers which drives people to fixate on them, read magazines and books about their killing sprees and become obsessed with getting inside their heads.…
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Film Review: Far Eastern Golgotha
I think it’s almost impossible for anyone living on the outside to really understand Russia. It’s such an immensely large country, populated with disparate and incongruous peoples. Scattered miles and…
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Film Review: Tiger 24
When people talk about global warming and the climate crisis the focus is normally on extreme weather events, the melting of the ice caps or rising sea levels. However, our…
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Film Review: Sissy
While novels, film and TV often paint a utopian picture of childhood, in reality this is usually very far from the truth. Life is very far from the kind of…
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Film Review: Inu-Oh
It’s really hard to understand Japanese society’s relationship with Manga and anime from the outside. While, in the West, animation is largely reserved for Disney and similar children’s movies, in…
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