COME 1985, Talking Heads were in an unlikely ascendancy. Having refined their artistic pop sensibilities in Remain in Light and commercial breakthrough Speaking in Tongues, David Byrne’s troupe of polyrhythmic weirdos established themselves as...
WITH Christopher Lee’s sad passing yesterday afternoon, the world lost one of its last living links to an older age. With a career spanning 65 years and 206 films, Lee inhabited the roles of...
SPEAKING as someone who has never been especially enamoured with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho – a contemporary trailblazer dulled by the passage of time and reference yet buoyed by Anthony Perkins’ wonderful performance as Norman Bates...
NOW THE AWKWARD first steps are out of the way with Dr. No, it’s time to examine one of the most acclaimed films in the series, beloved by fans and critics alike. Often considered to be...
BATHOS: noun – An abrupt, presumably unintended juxtaposition of the exalted and the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. Now try disassociating that word from Muse, particularly their last two albums. We’re never quite sure...
GAME of Thrones has deviated from its source material on countless occasions, but the greatest difference of all between the book series and the television series is that the books come out whenever George R....
TO CELEBRATE the legacy of one of cinema’s most enduring icons, the Film section at SCM is undertaking probably its most ambitious project to date, providing fresh – positive and negative – looks at each...
THE MONTH of June is not especially known for a predilection for remakes, but we at Film Torments spit in the face of Hollywood convention – what do they know, anyway? This week, we’re...
LAST time on Sons of the Silent Age, we looked at one of the all-time pioneering works of true American cinema in Birth of a Nation. This time, we’re sweeping away the cobwebs from...
CONCLUDING Musical May at Film Torments is one of the strangest mis-steps in a respected director’s career. From the creator of Network, Serpico and 12 Angry Men comes 1978’s Motown-tinged retelling of the Oz story: The Wiz. I’ve...
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