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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: Celluloid Screams Classic Horror Allnighter

If you’ve never done a horror allnighter before you’re missing-out on an almost unique cinematic experience. Imagine spending your sleeping hours in a darkened room watching gore, comedy, monsters and…

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Incoming: The Lobster

The Lobster is a blackly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death. It’s the new film from the highly…

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Film Review: Estranged

Our brains can be fickle, such complex and intricate organs but when they go wrong they can destroy our world. If we lose our memory we lose the most vital…

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Film Review: Dear White People

Authentic Black (Afro-American/Black Minority Ethnic etc) voices are often hard to find in mainstream popular cinema. Events in America over the last year have highlighted that racism has never gone…

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Incoming: Crimson Peak

When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place ﬁlled with secrets that…

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Film Review: Night of the Living Deb

Horror and comedy mix well when there’s the required care and attention to genre needs. Most famously realised by Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi, it’s a combination which can work…

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Incoming: Suffragette

Suffragette is the epic and thrilling first film about the remarkable untold story of the real foot soldiers of the Suffragette movement. These women were not primarily from the genteel…

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Film Review: Aaaaaaaah!

There have been many twisted works of genius produced by British comedy over the years. The Monty Python crew, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, Chris Morris, Steve Coogan…

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DVD Review: Dark Matter Season 1

When it comes to science fiction on TV the benchmark is undoubtedly Star Trek, which is almost impossible to compete with in terms of budgets and depth of universe. However,…

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Incoming: Regression

Regression is an upcoming American-Spanish thriller film directed and written by Alejandro Amenábar. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson and David Dencik. Regression is out in cinemas today.

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