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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: Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air

A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of human-beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the ‘only in New York’ story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a…

Blu-ray Review: Dr Strangelove: or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick is without doubt one of the greatest film makers of the 20th Century. Whilst the image of Alex or his fellow droogs causing havoc in A Clockwork Orange…

Incoming: Chevalier

Synopsis: In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During this game things will be compared.…

Incoming: Men & Chickens

Men & Chicken is a darkly hilarious slapstick comedy starring Mads Mikkelsen about a pair of socially-challenged siblings who discover they are adopted half-brothers in their late father’s videotaped will.…

DVD/Blu-Ray Review

DVD Review: River

Every so often a news story pops up about a Westerner being arrested in Southeastern Asia. These are normally backpackers or students on gap years and it’s normally in the…

Incoming: Baskin

It’s an easy night on patrol for Arda, Remzi and the rest of their police unit: a bit of cards, a bit of football, a bit of barbecue. They could…

Blu-ray Review: Cocoon

When Steven Spielberg released Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 he spearheaded a raft of American alien encounter movies which would continue for over a decade. Whilst best…

Incoming: The Hard Stop

The racially charged police killing of Mark Duggan in August 2011 ignited the worst civil unrest in recent British history. Duggan’s closest friends, Marcus and Kurtis, take us on a…

DVD Review: Love and Peace

Japanese culture, as you probably already know, is distinct and often puzzling. They’re a nation who like pigeon-holing and almost everything you can possibly think of sits neatly into one…

DVD Review: Queen of Earth (Masters of Cinema)

Alex Ross Perry is a name you may not be familiar with but he’s lauded by many film critics as something of a wunderkind. However, his films have not really…

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