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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.

Fantastic Fest Review: Unidentified Objects

There’s something inherently American about a road movie. It probably has something to do with the distance between cities and a national obsession with the automobile. The same can be…

Fantastic Fest Review: Lynch/Oz

It may not have seemed likely at the time, but when The Wizard of Oz was introduced to the world in 1939 it would go on to form one of…

Blu-Ray Review: Hearts and Minds

The Vietnam War was one of the lowest points in post-war US history, and there is stiff competition for that title. The USSR and America spent almost twenty years waging…

Blu-Ray Review: The Great Dictator

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Today, if you watch any of the rallies Hitler addressed it’s easy to see how dangerous he was or would become. At the same time,…

Fantastic Fest Review: Attachment

When we talk about mythology, it’s usually around the ancient Greeks or Romans. However, while much of it might have disappeared from modern religions, the major ones have a much…

Fantastic Fest Review: A Life on the Farm

There was a time, not too long ago, when farming was seen as a vocation where good honest toil, a bit of luck, and fair weather would set a man…

Fantastic Fest Review: Country Gold

The country music scene is, in a way, a microcosm of the wider industry, but is so distinct it’s basically a separate entity. While it originated in the 1920s from…

Fantastic Fest Review: Mister Organ

As the saying goes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This is what happens in the best documentaries. Those films which start out as one thing and suddenly morph into…

Fantastic Fest Review: Everyone Will Burn

Children are scary. Small versions of adult people who seem to have total confidence in their approach of constantly asking questions. They seem to know too much. They probably do.…

Film Review: My Imaginary Country

Like much of South America, Chile has had a difficult, complicated and rather dark history. It’s also a rich and vibrant country. Evidence of settlements date back over 10,000 years,…

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