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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: In This Corner of the World

Sunao Katabuchi’s introspective, beautifully-drawn animation, In This Corner of the World, depicts the incredible horror of Hiroshima via the coming-of-age story of a young girl, showing with great emotional impact…

Film Review: Liberation Day

Music can be a force for change. It can also bring people together. Political leaders like the kudos, publicity and status support from bands can bring. Most recently, Jeremy Corbyn…

Blu-Ray Review: Security

The ‘80s was the decade of the action star. Muscles, mumbling and machine guns dominated a huge market which saw the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone become major…

Blu-Ray Review: Pilgrimage

With the Edict of Milan in 313, which guaranteed the freedom of religion across the Roman Empire, Christianity spread north and west across Europe. Indeed, it tended to mirror the…

Incoming: Baby Driver

A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams…

Incoming: Hampstead

An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home. Hampstead is out in…

Blu-Ray Review: The Sorrow and the Pity

With the passing of each year it feels like our collective knowledge of the events of World War II dissipates. Whilst understanding of the major events will always be there,…

Film Review: Summer in the Forest

For centuries, society’s response to people with learning difficulties normally varied between outfight ridicule and locking them up. They were routinely abandoned in asylums and treated to a mix of…

Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Almost Heaven

Despite being one of the most populous, powerful and rich countries in the world, there’s a huge problem with youth poverty in China. Indeed, the Communist Party has spent billions…

Blu-Ray Review: The Amityville Horror

The most famous house in the history of horror film-making is undoubtedly 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island, New York. The publication of The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson in 1977,…

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