TO CELEBRATE the legacy of one of cinema’s most enduring icons, the Film section at SCM is undertaking probably its most ambitious project to date, providing fresh – positive and negative – looks at each...
THE MONTH of June is not especially known for a predilection for remakes, but we at Film Torments spit in the face of Hollywood convention – what do they know, anyway? This week, we’re...
Community has certainly been through a wild ride yet maintaining enough popularity to stop it from dying, like a damaged motor trying it’s best to keep driving because everyone demands to see it race...
FOR ALL FREE spirits and wannabe English teachers out there, Florence Welch is a guide. Her prancing, wafting and references to twentieth century female authors regularly attract large crowds to her and her machine’s...
FOR THOSE who refuse to accept the inevitable, The Vaccines are the ‘saviours of Indie Rock’. It must be a real kick in the teeth for those people when the band stated they wanted...
LAST time on Sons of the Silent Age, we looked at one of the all-time pioneering works of true American cinema in Birth of a Nation. This time, we’re sweeping away the cobwebs from...
BEFORE Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, who exactly were Phoenix? After dissolving his punk rock band Darlin’ with the members of what would become Daft Punk, Laurent Brancowitz joined Thomas Mars, Deck d’Arcy and Chris Mazzalai in...
CONCLUDING Musical May at Film Torments is one of the strangest mis-steps in a respected director’s career. From the creator of Network, Serpico and 12 Angry Men comes 1978’s Motown-tinged retelling of the Oz story: The Wiz. I’ve...
FINALLY, I think we might be getting somewhere. Season Five hasn’t exactly been bad television, but it has had a consistency in conveying placeholder narratives, biding its time until the next big thing happens. There...
MUSICAL comedy Pitch Perfect was a surprise hit back in 2012, and a sequel was rapidly put into production with all of the original principals returning, looking even more implausibly old for college students....
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