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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: Stalingrad (20th Anniversary Edition)

There have been some classic war movies over the years which, instead of glorifying conflict deal with the madness of war. Vietnam spurned a whole plethora of these, most notably…

Film Festival Review: Celluloid Screams

Celluloid Screams, the Sheffield horror film festival, continued to grow this year. Not only did it make screen 4 its own, 2014 marked its best year yet (both in terms…

Blu-ray Review: The Killing Fields (30th Anniversary Edition)

The role of a producer has faded in importance over the years, but at one time it was considered to be of equal significant as the director. Possibly the greatest…

Incoming: The Overnighters

In the tiny town of Williston, North Dakota, tens of thousands of unemployed hopefuls show up with dreams of honest work and a big paycheck under the lure of the…

DVD Review: The Naked City

The Second World War brought with it one of the richest genres in cinema – film noir. Staring towards the end of the conflict and running to the end of…

Incoming: Mr Turner

Mr Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner. Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes…

DVD Review: All This Mayhem

There have been several excellent skateboarding documentaries: Dogtown and Z-Boyz, Waiting for Lightening, Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator and Bones Brigade: An Autobiography to name but a few.…

Incoming: The Babadook

Six years after the death of her husband, Amelia struggles to discipline her “out-of-control” six-year-old Samuel – a son she finds difficult to love. Samuel’s dreams are plagued by a…

DVD Review: Soul Boys of the Western World

The ’80s was an era of bright clothing, bizarre haircuts and pop cheesy enough to disturb even the least lactose intolerant (although I don’t remember that existing back then). In…

Incoming: Time is Illmatic

Twenty years after its release, Illmatic has become a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the socio-political outlook, enduring spirit, and collective angst of a generation of young black men searching for…

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