AESTHETICALLY, this is a great movie. The CGI looks stunning, the cinematography is spot on and the actors perform well. Unfortunately, it’s the script that lets it down. I’ve always been a fan of...
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...
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,...
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...
WHAT makes a film so good? Well there’s the acting, the cinematography, the direction, editing, lighting and many other things. But a key aspect to the very fabric of the film comes through the...
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...
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