Film Torments: Russell Madness (2015)
WITH WRESTLEMANIA 32 coming up this very evening, our resident bad wrestling movie reviewer, Joe, takes a look at Russell Madness – a movie that posits the question: ‘”hat if Air Bud was like,...
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Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane – Three’s a crowd for psychological thriller
THE APPARENT ‘blood relative’ of 2008’s Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane ditches the found-footage genre for something more of a psychological thriller. With J.J. Abrams staying on as producer, 10 Cloverfield Lane sees Dan Trachtenberg...
Album released this week in… 1973: Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
THE YEAR was 1973. Led Zeppelin was the biggest band on the planet. Having already unleashed four monumental classics of hard rock legend – relentless electric riffage that launched a million garage bands –...
SCM Music’s Album Picks: January to March – Blackstars, Suicide Songs and United Crushers
WELCOME to the first music round up of 2016, a year that has, so far, been unusual and distressing. We’ve lost some big names many of which have left holes in the world that...
Breaking Down the Backlog: Yakuza
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I dismantled Japan’s organised crime syndicate by slamming faces into walls and then stamping on them. I had heard so much about the Yakuza franchise before I started...
You Mean You Haven’t Watched… The CW Originals?
THE OTHER DAY the CW made a bizarrely unprecedented move to renew eleven of its current original series’. Bear in mind that this is basically all their programmes confirmed to be coming back for...
Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Just talk it out, guys!
“DEEP down, Clark’s essentially a good person… and deep down, I’m not.” – Jeph Loeb, Batman: Hush It’s finally here. A battle we’ve waited for years, decades, even lifetimes for. The pinnacle of the...
Album released this week in… 1991: Slint – Spiderland
FEW ALBUMS are inherently dark, and Slint’s Spiderland is one of them. It’s black, dreadful and at its core, full of sadness. As the four members of Slint stare at you from the album...
Review: Hail, Caesar! – An enjoyable, if meandering effort from the Coens
It’s no secret that Joel and Ethan Coen love detectives and mysteries. The vast majority of their films bear all the hallmarks of the best detective novels; a kidnapping, put-upon protagonists, red herrings, questionably...
I binge watched Daredevil Season 2 and this is what I thought…
IT WAS INEVITABLE. Daredevil’s first season was a lot of things: unforgiving in its violence, shocking at every turn, and so fantastically orchestrated as to be received with the critical success it deserved. The...
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