Planet Earth II made us all into awestruck children once again and that was really important. It felt like a fairy tale didn’t it? Here is a sky. Here is a climate, as defined and...
Take a tally of how many articles you have read recently that opened with the cheery missive ‘2016 has been a garbage fire of a year.’ If your reading habits are anything like mine,...
YOU DON’T need me to tell you that 2016 had been a pretty horrible year. I’m almost sure that by the time this article goes up, another beloved celebrity will have passed away, another...
CONTINUING the month of Christmas at Torments, Dan watches another animated abomination. I don’t remember when exactly I first watched Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa, but I know for certain it wasn’t in...
PERFECTION IS IMPOSSIBLE. Try as we want, even aiming for contentment is difficult. Even if you manage to achieve the lofty aims of feeling like you have that barest of minimum levels of happiness,...
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I reduced everything to “nothing but bits” with a gun, a chainsaw and even my own fists. I have been fairly ambivalent about the Gears of...
PREQUELS, by their very station in an overarching narrative, face a conundrum: They’re moving toward a foregone conclusion. Star Wars knows this better than most franchises, having crafted an entire trilogy of the things...
FOLLOWING an extended hiatus, Torments returns in time for Christmas with this… thing of a movie. To start us off with the superlatives, Christmas is one of those institutions that, like the Parallax that...
It is easy to forget in this crazy year that a lot of great music came out. Some of it was from well established artists whose albums were expected to a) be released this...
AS WE GEAR up for our top fifty albums of 2016, it’s important to look at the ones which didn’t quite make it. With so many fantastic albums coming out this year, of course...
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