Only in the 70s: Billy Jack (1971)
SCM’s SEQUELS Month marches into the sunset with a long look at one of the 70s’ most forgotten works of social justice: 1971’s Billy Jack. The early gasp of the 70s was a time...
Author: Daniel Abbott
Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron – A fitting end to Marvel’s Phase Two
WITH the recent unveiling of Marvel Studios’ five-year plan for world domination, it must be difficult for individual filmmakers to make their mark with such a fixed schedule. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, much like...
Review: Song of the Sea – A stunning dive into Irish mythology
TOMM Moore is one of the finest animators of all time, but not many people seem to make a fuss about him. If you watched 2009’s Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells (co-directed with Nora...
Film Torments: Tentacolino / In Search of the Titanic (2004)
SEQUELS Month at Film Torments continues with a follow-up that no one asked for, no one saw and most people haven’t even heard of: The Italian animated knock-off (again), In Search of the Titanic. In Search...
Review: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – A beautiful send-off from a master
PERHAPS it’s appropriate that Isao Takahata, the Studio Ghibli veteran who gave us the emotional abyss of Grave of the Fireflies, should bring a profound melancholy to his latest (supposedly final) film, The Tale of...
Film Torments: Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
THIS week’s instalment in Torments’ Sequels Month is one of the most notorious follow-ups to ever blight the big screen. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for a different kind of magic: Highlander II: The Quickening. When people are asked...
Review: Chappie – A flawed but ambitious sci-fi fable
NEILL Blomkamp is anything but subtle. District 9 – a searing examination of Apartheid via explosions and clicky-faced “prawns” – was an arresting debut that pushed all the right buttons before descending into an...
Film Torments: Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
THIS month’s theme at Film Torments ranks among the most consistently creatively-bankrupt practices in the film industry – sequels. This week, Rich Kee examines the much-maligned follow-up to a classic that nobody asked for: Blues Brothers 2000....
Four reasons why Spider-Man 3 is the best superhero film of all time
NO, THIS is not an April Fool’s. Honest. I’m just as surprised as you are. George Jones, in his first article for SCM, takes us through the reasons why Spider-Man 3 – yes, that one –...
Only in the 70s: Sextette (1978)
AFTER last week’s break from Torments, we return with a senile vengeance for 1978’s self-regarding debacle: Sextette. Mae West was one of the most notorious performers in Hollywood during her 1930s-40s heyday. Mired in controversy for...
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