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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.

Sundance Review: At the Ready

During the 2016 Presidential election campaign Donald Trump repeatedly turned his attention to the US/Mexico border; most famously with his white elephant border wall. Since entering the race and throughout…

Sundance Review: On the Count of Three

Despite the amount of progress that has been made, particularly in the developed world, it’s still often considered a social taboo to talk about suicide. This is especially the case…

Sundance Review: The Pink Cloud

If you cast your mind back to the dim and distant past of 2019, the very thought of living in some kind of national lockdown was the province of pure…

Sundance Review: Prime Time

Today, anyone who wishes to publicly air their thoughts, opinions or grievances can easily do so at the touch of a button. The internet has afforded us all a soapbox.…

Sundance Review: Writing with Fire

There has never been a more dangerous time, in modern history, to be a journalist. Whilst the profession has been traditionally afforded protection and immunity, in many areas of the…

Sundance Review: In the Earth

When Ben Wheatley first arrived on the scene, he was a breath of fresh air. Down Terrace passed most people by at the time but Kill List became an instant…

Sundance Review: Sabaya

In summer 2014, daesh captured the town of Sinjar and most of the Sinjar district in Northern Iraq. The population fled into the mountains, including an estimated forty thousand Yazidis.…

Sundance Review: President

The ‘resignation’ of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 ended a chapter in Zimbabwe’s history which had begun almost four decades earlier. Whilst the ZANU-PF leader might have been hounded out…

Sundance Review: Mother Schmuckers

The film industry is often a family affair. There is probably no other area of the economy where this is so prevalent. While the insipid nepotism of children of the…

Sundance Review: Son of Monarchs

The United States of America and Mexico have a long and complex history. Dating all the way back to the Texas Revolution in 1835, the socio-political relationship between the two…

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