Incoming: Girl
Determined 15-year-old Lara is a young woman who is fiercely committed to becoming a professional ballerina. She throws herself into this quest at a new school, but finds the usual…
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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.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Review: Screwdriver
It has been a theme, throughout history, that the oppressed often look for champions whom they can rally around. Fairly normal people can be elevated into god-like figures as long…
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Incoming: Benjamin
The bittersweet comedy tells the story of Benjamin (Colin Morgan) a rising star filmmaker, who is thrown into emotional turmoil on the brink of premiering his second film, when Billie,…
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival Review: Minding the Gap
Today, America finds itself in a strange position as a country riven by conflict. Whilst Donald Trump’s politics and persona are well and truly hideous, his success has highlighted the…
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Film Review: Children of the Snow Land
Whilst availability of education is something we often take for granted in the UK, life isn’t so simple or easy in many other countries around the world. Some children walk…
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival Review: Roll Red Roll
The treatment women receive at the hands of men in almost all countries around the world is reprehensible. It came as no surprise to many but the #metoo movement highlighted…
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Film Review: Lifechanger
“Brian doesn’t seem his usual self this morning”. Is Brian just having one of those days or has an alien creature taken possession of his body and is using him…
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Blu-Ray Review: Sink the Bismarck!
Named after the former German chancellor, the Bismark was one of a pair of fast battleships which were the largest and most powerful built under the Third Reich. It was…
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Incoming: Ben is Back
Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother’s undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.…
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Incoming: Everybody Knows
The film follows Laura on her travels from Argentina to her small home town in Spain for her sister’s wedding, bringing her two children along for the occasion. Amid the…
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