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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.

Film Festival Preview: Sundance London

Taking place in Park City, Utah, Sundance Film Festival has established a reputation for showcasing and promoting the best new voices in independent cinema. Since 2012, the largest US independent…

Blu-Ray Review: Hard Times

James Coburn and Charles Bronson are two of the most iconic faces of American post-war cinema. Both made their names in action films, but by 1975 Coburn was in the…

Film Review: Heal the Living

It’s becoming more difficult by the day to find good in the world as everything seems to be going to Hell in a handcart. It’s easy to overlook every day…

Film Review: Suntan

It’s fair to say that Greece doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to cinema. There’s the occasional film which has been successful outside of Hellas, such as…

DVD Review: The Goddess

From the beginning of the 1930s until the Japanese invasion in 1937, Chinese cinema saw its first golden age. Based in Shanghai, a multicultural and Western-oriented city, these films often…

Incoming: Their Finest

1940, London, the Blitz; with the country’s morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton), an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to…

Blu-Ray Review: The Life of Oharu (Criterion Collection)

There have been many films made about prostitutes, courtesans and concubines, but in Kenji Mizoguchi 1952 film The Life of Oharu the principal is all three. However, it’s more in…

Incoming: The Belko Experiment

In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s…

Blu-Ray Review: Drunken Master (Masters of Cinema)

Martial Arts films were a huge global phenomenon at the beginning of the 1970s. The market was flooded with hundreds of low budget, badly dubbed films from Hong Kong. The…

Incoming: Clash

Set in a police truck, a group of demonstrators from across the divisions in Egyptian society are forced together through a series of violent protests in Cairo following the events…

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