Visions du Réel Review: Silent Love
If you’ve grown up in Western Europe it’s easy to become complacent about all the freedoms we’re afforded. Things we take for granted are very much major issues in countries…
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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 Review – Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Wars are never straightforward. The bigger the conflict, both in terms of length and size of the arena of battle, the messier things like logistics and communications become. The Pacific…
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Grimmfest Easter Review: Post Mortem
The scientific and lay world have been fascinated with near death experiences for hundreds of years. In the same way we humans are overly preoccupied with our own mortality, our…
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Visions du Réel Review: Chaylla
According to the World Health Organisation, one-in-three women have experience physical or sexual violence at some stage in their lives. This frightening statistic hammers home just how endemic the problem…
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Visions du Réel Review: A Holy Family
Families are complicated units. Created through generations of complex and often contradictory interrelationships and experiences. Not all children are the same. Some want to fly the nest at the first…
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Visions du Réel Review: A Marble Travelogue
We live in a global consumer-driven world and while this might have been great for many in the West in terms of low prices, when the pandemic hit we saw…
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Film Review: See You Then
The culture wars have never been so pernicious and the constant transphobia which infests every online platform is horrendous. Despite what some bigots like to spout, the decision to transition…
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Blu-Ray Review – Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
The late 1970s and 1980s was the era of the mega horror franchises. Innovations in filmmaking techniques and technologies, not to mention the growing turbulence within the world, made it…
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Film Review: Compartment No.6
It’s good to talk. Sometimes we meet the most fascinating people in the most unlikely circumstances. We also, occasionally, encounter characters we wish we hadn’t. On the face of it,…
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Film Review: Small Body
Until fairly recently, up to the Second World War or even later, Europe was in the firm grip of Christianity. Many wars were thought over it and countless lives lost,…
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