Film Torments: Anonymous (2011)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at an insulting fabrication of history. Full disclosure: I studied English Literature at university – I know, the shame – which involved a considerable deal of William Shakespeare....
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Film Torments: Sex and the City 2 (2010)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a facile mess. The original Sex and the City television series, from the scant few episodes I caught on Bravo past midnight as a teenager, was an occasionally...
Film Torments: After Last Season (2009)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan stares into the void of avant-garde a clue. When I was 13 or 14, some friends and I decided we were going to make a movie. We had no...
Film Torments – Foodfight! (2012)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a disgusting piece of awful garbage. Much has been made of The Emoji Movie this past month. A brazen advertisement made to propagate its sponsored content with...
Film Torments: Showgirls (1995)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan watches an all-time camp classic. How do you describe Showgirls to someone who hasn’t seen it? That can be a difficult question to answer – there are so, so many...
Film Torments: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at the bastard child of a cultural milestone. Final Fantasy VII was kind of a big deal. If you read my absurd two-part dissection of both the game...
Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming – A deeply enjoyable, if not revolutionary, take on the webslinger
YES, IT’S ANOTHER Spider-Man movie. Toby Maguire kicked off what feels like an endless cycle of Spider-Man films 15 years ago, and since then we’ve had five films. The films have varied in their...
Review: In This Corner of the World – A vibrant study of a dark period
ALMOST anyone familiar with Grave of the the Fireflies will assent it was a work of art. Even if they’re not personally fond of it, it’s one of a handful of animated films that regularly features on published lists...
Film Torments: Ben-Hur (2016)
THIS WEEK on Torments, Dan looks at a surprisingly interesting bomb. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was a staggeringly popular novel at the turn of the 20th Century. Set in the time of...
Film Torments: Dracula 3000 (2004)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan wanders where the sun don’t shine. The direct-to-video market is dominated by horror. There’s a simple reason for this: Horror movies, by design, rarely require inflated budgets or star-studded...
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