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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.

Incoming – Godzilla: King of the Monsters

The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with…

Film Review: Starfish

Grief is a powerful feeling. It can overpower all human emotions and leave you virtually crippled. How you handle this trauma is a distinctly personal thing. There’s no right or…

Film Review: Freedom Fields

Whilst it’s a laudable notion that sport and politics should never mix, in reality it’s almost impossible to separate one from another. How a nation views their athletes and sportspeople…

Incoming: Booksmart

Told from a wildly original, fresh and modern perspective, Booksmart is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds we create that last a lifetime. Capturing the…

Incoming: Memoir of War

In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, young Marguerite Duras is a talented writer and an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she…

Blu-Ray Review: The Blood on Satan’s Claw

When discussing British horror films produced in the 1960s and ‘70s, thoughts naturally turn towards Hammer or Amicus. However, whilst the name might not be as well know, Tigon or…

Blu-Ray Review: La Ronde

There’s a strange and quite frankly farcical notion that in the ‘good old days’ everyone held hands until after marriage and promiscuity was something which only happened in the shadows.…

Film Review – John McEnroe: In The Realm Of Perfection

Consensus has it that the golden era of men’s tennis began with the emergence of Roger Federer around the middle of last decade. Whilst the athleticism and technical ability of…

Blu-Ray Review: Julius Caesar

During the 1950s and 1960s Hollywood couldn’t get enough of big budget historical epics. The likes of Spartacus, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments proved incredibly popular as well as…

Incoming: Rocketman

Taron Egerton is Elton John in Rocketman, an epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and…

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