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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.

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: A Good Woman is Hard to Find

It’s surprising the lengths we will go to in order to protect our family. There’s an animalistic instinct which kicks in around young children, especially if you’re a single parent…

DVD Review – The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead

Throughout history, mermaids have appeared in legends and folklore in many cultures around the world. Often inspired by the sirens and naiads of Greek mythology, they usually manifest similar characteristics…

Incoming – Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk

Centuries old and enjoyed by tens of millions of people worldwide, golf is seen by many as more than a sport. Yet what do we know about the other person…

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: The Incredible Shrinking Wknd

We live in a world where events move so quickly. On a daily basis, we’re assailed from all sides by information and news from around the world. It can become…

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: The Prey

Today’s action movies are full of CGI, unnecessary high moral concepts and diversity quotas. It’s not like the good old days when they were created as vehicles to showcase the…

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: 8

South Africa isn’t a country which you’d naturally associate with cinema but it has produced some of the best contemporary African films over the years. The likes of The Wound,…

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Ode to Nothing

You need to be a very special character to work in a funeral home or mortuary. Someone who is comfortable with blood, bodily fluids and being surrounded by cadavers. It…

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Knives and Skin

The mainstream film industry seems obsessed with re-visiting the past and almost incapable of trying something new. Something a bit different. Endless sequels and remakes. Re-hashes of the same old…

DVD Review: The Isle

Britain, like most countries which have a border with the sea, is surrounded by small (often remote) islands. Many of these are either uninhabited or populated by sparse communities which…

Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Maggie

Along with horror, science fiction and fantasy films often find themselves unfairly maligned. What so many fail to understand is that genre film-making is not just (normally) a case of…

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