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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.

Blu-Ray Review: Giallo Essentials – Black Edition

The often maligned and overlooked sub-genre of giallo is experiencing something of a renaissance, with a whole new generation beginning to appreciate these stylish and bloody soap operas. With plenty…

Alain and Marie

Fantasia Review: Incredible but True

Let’s be honest, there are very few of us who don’t have a midlife crisis in one way or another. For most people it might entail buying a completely new…

Blu-Ray Review: Running Out of Time 1 & 2

The character actor is the unheralded star of the cinematic universe. Those familiar faces which regularly pop up randomly in a film and make everything better. Suet Lam fits squarely…

Jack Carter

Blu-Ray Review: Get Carter

Michael Caine was undoubtedly one of the most famous British faces of the 1960s and 1970s. Sporting his iconic ‘NHS specs’, a swagger and a cheeky grin, he starred in…

Film Review: Hyochondriac

It’s a condition which is often played for laughs in popular culture, but hypochondria is no joke. Regularly stigmatised as a ‘made-up illness’, this type of health anxiety is in…

Film Review: Hit the Road

It’s astonishing, in many ways, that Iranian filmmakers can still keep making top-tier cinema. With all the restrictions and censorship in place in the country, it’s a miracle that any…

Film Review: Winter’s Yearning

Greenland (or Kalaallit Nunaat as it’s officially known) is the world’s largest island. The bulk of the land is uninhabitable, sparsely populated and with most of the 50,000 population clinging…

Blu-Ray Review: Summertime

Today, David Lean is best remembered for classics such as Laurence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Brief Encounter and Doctor Zhivago. However, he made almost twenty films…

Thomasin and her younger brother

Blu-ray Review: The Witch

The idea of a witch, or similar, has been present in folklore from around the world for hundreds and even thousands of years. While the familiar figure of the old…

Kurt Vonnegut

Film Review – Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Most biographical documentaries approach their subject in a fairly standard and linear way. Normally, running through their life and work in chronological order, with friends, family and experts on hand…

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