I NEVER thought I’d be able to take The Neon Demon seriously. It’s a film (ostensibly) about fashion in a post-Zoolander world, which helped personify and expose the vapid absurdity of an entire industry. A...
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 instalment focuses on a film about...
PLEASE watch Kubo and the Two Strings. If you read only one sentence of this review, please let it be that one. This is one of the most beautifully shot films I’ve seen in a while,...
SINCE its inception, Metronomy has utilised those big electronic beats that sat so comfortably within mid-Noughties British pop music. On the outfit’s second album, Nights Out, the band made the shift from proto-beats that...
Yesterday evening Sony unveiled the new line of Playstation 4 consoles: The Slim and the Pro. The former announcement was pretty funny considering someone already unboxed it a fortnight ago. The Playstation 4 Slim...
ROUNDING off August’s Month of Misery at Torments, Truan takes a look at one of animation’s hardest punches to the gut. Since the time of the Cold War there’s always been something deeply compelling about...
BEFORE I saw Lights Out, I was feeling pretty ambivalent. On the one hand, the short film that it’s based on is fantastic; on the other, the feature adaptation was produced by James Wan,...
WHEN PEOPLE talk about the best punk albums of all time, it’s important to place Dead Kennedy’s debut record up there alongside Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power, The Clash’s London Calling and The...
Nintendo have just finished yet another Direct. This time it is solely about the 3DS predominately so that, I hope, to clear the path for the eventual NX Direct that will come out soon...
THIS week on Film Torments’ Month of Misery, we take a look at one of the original Video Nasties. Cannibal Holocaust is one of those films where the legend precedes the picture. Believed by...
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