MUSICAL comedy Pitch Perfect was a surprise hit back in 2012, and a sequel was rapidly put into production with all of the original principals returning, looking even more implausibly old for college students....
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is a miracle. The fourth entry in a long-dormant series – 30 years after the last one – helmed by a 70 year old man preoccupied with Happy Feet sequels,...
HERE we go… the most divisive episode of Game of Thrones ever. The only one to get less than 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the one which apparently convinced many viewers to never watch...
CONTINUING Musical May at Film Torments, we’re taking a look at one of the most baffling, ill-advised and awful musicals ever set to film: 1980’s chop-shop disaster, The Apple. The Apple (1980) is a nightmarishly...
MUSICAL May continues at Film Torments with the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the Parisian sewers – that also happens to feature Torments’ first recurring director in Tom Hooper – Les Misérables (and his orchestra). Musicals and...
‘KILL the Boy’ sees us jump to the resolution of last week’s skirmish between Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) and Ser Barristan’s (Ian McElhinney) beleaguered unsullied patrol and ambushing sons of the harpy, in what...
HELLO and welcome to a new, hopefully irregular feature in the annals of SCM: Sons of the Silent Age. In this feature, we’ll be examining the continuing resonance of silent films, their influence on contemporary cinema...
THE WACHOWSKI siblings have traded on ideas in an ideas-unfriendly Hollywood system for well over a decade now. Since their breakout hit The Matrix (and its critically-beleaguered sequels), Lana and Andy have never been...
HELLO and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all, to a putting on of the Ritz. The theme for this Film Torments month of Musical May is… yeah. It’s Musical May at SCM, and we’ll...
MILES Davis is one of the all-time titans of jazz music, there’s no getting around it. Davis was at the forefront of several defining moments in jazz, from the ‘cool’, swing-inflected Birth of the...
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