SCM Music’s Top 50 Albums of 2015
2015 HAS BEEN an exceptional year for music. We’ve seen a wide range of exceptional albums, from jazz, to rap, to metal, to folk, to indie and beyond. Sure, we also had The BRIT...
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Jekyll and Hyde: A Show of two halves, both of them awful
Spoilers. Well, if it’s spoiling anything is really very much debatable. The Conservative Party have, for a very long time now, been against the BBC. A nationalised institution making entertainment for the masses is...
Film Torments: The Gingerdead Man (2005)
CHRISTMAS Month continues at Film Torments with The Gingerdead Man. I’d say more but, well, The Gingerdead Man. Gingerbread is a Christmas thing, right? The Gingerdead Man. Christ. The average word count for the...
Wow, an awards ceremony! Oh, it’s the Grammy’s.
NOT TO NAME drop, but this October I found myself in Los Angeles, and the Grammy Museum. While the museum was undoubtedly excellent fun, and I’d recommend it anyone who enjoys music, one thing...
BDTB: Condemned: Criminal Origins
In this week’s Breaking Down The Backlog: I beat homeless people, drug addicts and mentally disabled people to death with a variety of rusty implements. I don’t usually play horror games. Hilariously, I find them...
In defence of… Shia LaBeouf
THERE are some things everybody loves; there are others everybody has seemingly agreed to hate. I’m George Jones, and I’m here to tell you why you’re wrong. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the...
Only in the 70s: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
FOR THIS instalment of Only in the 70s, Truan puts on his finest analyst’s glasses, dusts off his snob cap and tries to determine what the fuck is going on with David Bowie. In Nicolas...
Film Torments: Home Alone 3 (1997)
IT’S COMING up to that point in time that you know and we know so let’s not labour the point. It’s Christmas Month at Film Torments, and to celebrate this time of ostensible festivity...
Doctor Who – Hell Bent
SPOILERS FOLLOW, you know this by now, get into it. “Nothing’s Sad Until It’s Over” – The Doctor, Hell Bent So let’s just get in front of the big controversy: Another Doctor Who character didn’t technically...
Doctor Who – Heaven Sent
WARNING: THERE BE SPOILERS BELOW! “If thou canst give me an answer to three questions which I will ask thee, I will look on thee as my own child, and thou shalt dwell with me...
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