15 Songs That Helped Me Through 2020
THIS YEAR I decided to change things around, hopefully for the last time, in order to include the songs I enjoyed in 2020 regardless of when they were released. I did this because, to...
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SCM Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2020
Let’s be honest, you don’t need me lecturing you on how bad 2020 has been. But when we think back on the months we spent inside our homes, let’s remember how vital the arts...
Film Torments: The Lion King (2019)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan sighs heavily. Spoilers ahead. It’s easy to see the appeal of remakes. Taking a piece of media from another time offers ripe opportunities to re-contextualise and re-interpret it, allowing...
Only in the 70s: All This and World War II (1976)
ONLY in the 70s is a feature where we take a look at films that could not have existed in any other decade, as true products of their time. This time, Hollywood hubris comes...
SCM Music’s 25 Best Albums of 2020 So Far
YOU DON’T need me to tell you just how much of a fucked up year 2020 has been so far. We’ve started off the new decade with the wrong type of bang, but with...
Film Torments: Garzey’s Wing (1996)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan examines an anime disaster. In the world of anime, Original Video Animations (OVAs) are straight-to-video releases usually made to serve as a sidebar for an ongoing series. They often...
Final Fantasy VII Remake – A monumental, occasionally maddening achievement
THIS review will not contain spoilers and was written having played the game on a standard PlayStation 4. For a full tech breakdown of the differences between PS4 and PS4 Pro, check out Digital...
Film Torments: Dragonball Evolution (2009)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan powers up to take down the Mr. Satan of Dragon Ball media. If you’ve been on the internet – or happened to be growing up at the turn of...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: The Coda
WE STARTED with a Prelude: here’s the Coda, in which Dan finally, mercifully, concludes this three-year project. In 1987, Hironobu Sakaguchi and a ragtag band of scrappy developers inadvertently created a monster. This bizarre,...
Review: Cats – Cosmic horror in musical form
YOU KNOW what a cat is. A cat is a sleek, elegant creature that licks itself and bounds across its world in apathetic fashion. It preens. It mewls. It doesn’t know whether it wants...
Parasite wins Best Picture… but does it matter?
OSCAR history was made last night with Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite victorious as the first Best Picture winner in a language other than English. Bong also netted Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, to waylay...
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