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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.
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DVD Review: Pulp: A Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets

  • July 2, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
Whilst most of the band prefer shopping at Waitrose, Pulp: A Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets feels more like Morrisons fayre than its up-market sibling. Florian Habicht’s film is…
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Blu-ray Review: Absentia

  • July 1, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
There are a depressingly large amount of uninspiring, lazy and just plain bad horror films made. The proliferation of cheap technology has made it progressively easier for anyone to have…
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Film Season Preview: The Cinema of Childhood

  • June 24, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
The Cinema of Childhood comes to the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield in July. Curated by eminent film scholar and filmmaker Mark Cousins, the season will be touring around the UK…
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DVD Review: The Night is Young

  • June 20, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
With the release of Mauvais Sang (oddly named The Night is Young for English speaking audiences), Leos Carax confirmed his place as one of France’s most inventive and creative young…
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Film Festival Preview: Sheffield Doc/Fest – Part 3

  • June 4, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
Sheffield Doc/Fest is the premiere event in the Sheffield calendar. Taking place between 7-12 June, it’s one of the biggest and most renowned documentary film festivals in the world. Along…
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DVD Review: Generation Iron

  • June 3, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
Sometimes, from seemingly out of nowhere, a documentary really takes me by surprise. I’m really not a fan of bodybuilding and quite frankly can’t fathom why people would want to…
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DVD Review: Hari-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

  • May 30, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
In 1963 Masaki Kobayashi won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes for his film Harakiri. There’s nothing quite like the word “remake” to send a wave of fear through your…
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Incoming: Omar

  • May 29, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up…
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DVD Review: The Chris Marker Collection

  • May 28, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
Cast you mind back to a time before the internet. One of the only ways to discover what wonders the world held in store was through the medium of documentary.…
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DVD Review: The Armstong Lie

  • May 28, 2014
  • Rob Aldam
Lance Armstrong is probably the most famous cyclist in the world, if not sportsperson. Between 1999 and 2005 he won the Tour de France a record breaking seven times consecutively,…
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