THE HISTORY of video game to movie adaptations has always been a mixed bag. For every Silent Hill you get a Hitman. For every Lara Croft: Tomb Raider you get a Prince of Persia. For...
THIS week on Film Torments, we take a look at one of Roger Corman’s lower moments. Oh dear. It’s 1980’s Humanoids From the Deep. WARNING: This review will make several references to scenes of sexual...
SONS of the Silent Age returns with a look at one of the finest comedies of all time: Sherlock, Jr.. Buster Keaton was a stone-faced man made of elastic. He was also, quite probably, clinically...
THIS week, Rich takes an extended look at one of the most successful and most derided adaptations of a beloved children’s novel: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Back in the late-noughties, we received word...
MOVIES made about the Holocaust are, for obvious reasons, a contentious topic. There’s the dichotomy between sensitive depiction and garish flippancy, the clash between Hollywood schmaltz and grim realism. For many, documentaries like Shoah or...
The Canon of Cannon is a new feature where we take a wandering look at the backlog of world-renowned trash peddlers, Cannon Films, and the work they left behind. Kicking us off, it’s Ninja III: The Domination....
FILM Torments returns from belated hiatus for a film of two halves: 1986’s Thunder Run. WHEN Mad Max: Fury Road became the greatest film of 2015 (and perhaps recorded history), 0.00001% of the international population may...
IN THE MIDST of this cinematic war between WB and Marvel Studios, and despite playing second fiddle to Kevin Feige’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, director-producer Bryan Singer has managed to stand his ground and keep the...
IN THE OVER-INFORMED society that we find ourselves in, I was presented with a rare opportunity in which I could go into a nationwide film release with very little knowledge and thus ensure a completely...
ANDREW wants to incur the wrath of cineastes everywhere and tackle the belated Oscar darling of 2014: it is, of course, chuffing Boyhood. Where to begin with Boyhood? It’s a hard task to class the...
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