FULL, weeping spoilers ahead. Consider yourself warned. IT’S FINALLY time, once again, for a graphic novel by Alan Moore to be adapted to film. Not that you’ll ever see the infamous curmudgeon’s name in...
THIS WEEK on Film Torments, Dan takes a look at yet another Adam Sandler bomb. You wouldn’t be blamed for assuming that we like to pick on Adam Sandler at SCM, but the reality...
RETURNING to the decade of flairs, perms and nationwide blackouts after a lengthy hiatus, Dan examines one of many sci-fi travesties that scrambled to fill the demand from a certain blockbuster. You might have heard...
ADAPTED from the works of the Neapolitan poet, courtier and folklorist Giamattista Basile (c.1565-1632) principally, his Lo Cunto de li Cunti, overo trattenemiento de peccerille- The Tale of Tales, or entertainments for the little ones,...
THIS WEEK on Torments, George has a stab at an anthology that, inexplicably, made it to three instalments. Let it never be said that I don’t suffer for my art. I have now sat...
THIS WEEK, Rich brings a conclusion to his look at Tim Burton’s horrific Alice universe with the most recent entry in the history of Torments. This has been a summer of sequels. Some have...
THE CANON of Cannon is a feature where we take a wandering look at the backlog of world-renowned trash peddlers, Cannon Films, and the work they left behind. This time, we examine the enduring cult appeal of three...
THIS WEEK on Film Torments, Dan takes a look at a slice of cheap and cheerless nonsense that’s, inexplicably, deeply dear to him: Corman-produced and brimming with 80s-sleaze, it’s Deathstalker. Deathstalker (not to be confused with...
ROLAND Emmerich knows how to make a blockbuster. He paints, in the broadest strokes imaginable, on a canvas bigger than the Sun, the things that will make an audience shovel popcorn in their faces...
THIS WEEK on Film Torments, we finally take a look at the progenitor of the good-bad film in Hollywood: Glen or Glenda, by Ed Wood. The legend of Edward Wood, Jr. speaks for itself....
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