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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.
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Incoming: Snowden

  • December 6, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
From three-time Oscar-winner, Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarising figures of the 21st century, the man responsible for what has been described…
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Film Review: The Black Hen

  • December 6, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
There are many casualties of war but it’s often civilians who withstand the worst of the hardships and atrocities. For children growing-up amidst conflict it can be scary, puzzling and…
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Incoming: The Birth of a Nation

  • December 5, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an…
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Blu-Ray Review: Lords of Dogtown

  • December 5, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
In 2001 Stacy Peralta made the documentary Dogtown and the Z-Boys. It was a very personal film for Peralta as he was one of the leading lights of the Zephyr…
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DVD Review: Three Wishes For Cinderella

  • December 4, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
One of the universal things all cultures hare, regardless of where we are in the world, is the love of fairy tales. It’s a subject entrenched in Disney films such…
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Blu-ray Review: Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

  • December 2, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
There are few people in the world today like Werner Herzog, let alone film directors. Whilst he made his name with early films such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God,…
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Incoming: Sully

  • December 2, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain “Sully” Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the…
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Film Review: The Dreamed Ones

  • December 1, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
The relationship between film and literature has always been a rather fraught one. It’s very rare for a film to live up to the book it’s based on, let alone…
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Incoming: Moana

  • December 1, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped, and…
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Incoming: Chi-Raq

  • November 30, 2016
  • Rob Aldam
Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a Child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by…
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