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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.

DVD Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances…” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are assuredly players but they’re pretty stumped…

Incoming: Trumbo

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. Trumbo (directed by Jay Roach) recounts how…

Film Review: Rams

If you’ve read Halldór Laxness’ Independent People you’ll have a good idea of the relationship between Icelandic farmers and their sheep. Fast-forward almost a hundred years and there are still…

Incoming: The 33

In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the collapse of a gold and copper mine. Over the next 69…

Incoming: The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016

Since 2004, the Japan Foundation, London has organised a Japanese film programme in close partnership with distinguished film venues and programme advisors in the UK. Each year, a programme of…

DVD Review: The House on Pine Street

Haunted house movies have been a staple of the horror genre for decades now. There have been three great periods so far, beginning with the classics of The Haunting, House…

Film Review: Backtrack

After seeing the marketing behind Michael Petroni’s new film Backtrack you could be forgiven for assuming that it’s a horror or thriller. Despite a few early ‘jumps’, Backtrack is more…

Film Review: Innocence of Memories

Orhan Pamuk will be a familiar name to many and is widely regarded as one of the best authors of the last decade. In 2006 he was awarded the Nobel…

Blu-ray Review: Essential Godard

Jean-Luc Godard was arguably the greatest film director of the 1960s. He was also the driving force behind the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) movement and one of the…

Incoming: Youth

Springtime. Fred and Mick, two old friends now approaching eighty, are on vacation together in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is…

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