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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: The Roy Andersson Collection

Roy Andersson is a rather unique film director even for a country renowned producing brilliant and unconventional filmmaking. His career in media has mostly been in commercials and in over…

Incoming: True Story

When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Long – who has taken on Finkel’s identity – his reporting job morphs into an unforgettable game of…

Turbo Kid

EIFF Review: Turbo Kid

The year 1997. The apocalypse has already happened and those left struggle to survive in a harsh climate where commerce and existence is dominated by the ownership of water. It’s…

Incoming: Dear White People

follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue…

Film Review: The Reunion

I for one will never go to a school or class reunion. The whole concept of meeting up with people you never liked enough to keep in touch with and…

3 women

Blu-ray Review: 3 Women

Robert Altman got inspiration for 3 Women from a dream and the film itself has a dreamlike quality, feeling slightly otherworldly and obtuse. Having built up fearsome reputation as one…

Incoming: Love and Mercy

Love and Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era-defining catalogue of Wilson’s music, the film…

Incoming: Touch of Evil

In a seething Mexican-American bordertown, narcotics agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) clashes with detective Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles) – a local hero despite his dubious intuitions and bloated bigotry –…

Leaving Africa

Sheff Doc/Fest Review: Leaving Africa

Africa is a very conservative continent. Outside of South Africa, traditional values and beliefs tend to hold a grip on the populous. Uganda is no exception. Outdated gender roles and…

P'tit Quinquin

Film Review: P’tit Quinquin

Bleak, beautiful and unrelenting are three words which aptly sum-up Bruno Dumont’s career to date. A succession of rural dramas where humanity bends its knee to God and beauty and…

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