Review: Cats – Cosmic horror in musical form
YOU KNOW what a cat is. A cat is a sleek, elegant creature that licks itself and bounds across its world in apathetic fashion. It preens. It mewls. It doesn’t know whether it wants...
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Parasite wins Best Picture… but does it matter?
OSCAR history was made last night with Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite victorious as the first Best Picture winner in a language other than English. Bong also netted Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, to waylay...
Film Torments: Barb Wire (1996)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a rightly forgotten relic. For those who grew up in the 1990s, Baywatch hit its peak just outside of the collective memory. Asserting itself into international pop-culture...
SCM Music’s Top 100 Albums of the Decade
ABOUT a million years after every other publication has given their verdict on the best albums of the 2010s, here comes ours. For myself, the last decade was a formative period. I left school,...
Film Torments: The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)
THIS TIME on Film Torments, Dan takes a look at a standard-bearer for a forgotten sub-genre. Exploitation as a cinematic phenomenon comes in all forms and fashions. As the name implies, films that snuggle...
Review: Dolemite Is My Name – A joyous celebration of Blaxploitation
BLAXPLOITATION is, to put it mildly, a fascinating snapshot of 70s cinema. Providing real opportunities for aspiring black artists, hits like Shaft, Coffy and Black Caesar proved that there was a fierce demand for...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy XV (PlayStation 4)
A QUICK note: This took me too long to write, and there are spoilers ahead. Let’s cut to the chase for a moment: Final Fantasy XV is a deeply compromised experience. It is the...
Review: Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker – A safe but sorry conclusion to the saga
STAR WARS is a funny old beast, isn’t it? 43 years have passed since George Lucas’ original swept the globe and changed everything, and the ensuing franchise has enjoyed an astonishing degree of pop-culture...
Only in the 70s: The Song Remains the Same (1976)
ONLY in the 70s is a feature where we take a look at films that could not have existed in any decade, as true products of their time. This time, rockstar bombast runs roughshod....
Joe’s Best Songs of 2019
I’ve found the musical output of 2019 to be pretty lackluster, if I am honest. A lot of hyped projects or projects from people whose previous output I have enjoyed disappointed me or for...
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