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....
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is a miracle. The fourth entry in a long-dormant series – 30 years after the last one – helmed by a 70 year old man preoccupied with Happy Feet sequels,...
HERE we go… the most divisive episode of Game of Thrones ever. The only one to get less than 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the one which apparently convinced many viewers to never watch...
CONTINUING Musical May at Film Torments, we’re taking a look at one of the most baffling, ill-advised and awful musicals ever set to film: 1980’s chop-shop disaster, The Apple. The Apple (1980) is a nightmarishly...
SELDOM has an album so viscerally connected with the zeitgeist than Radiohead’s masterpiece, OK Computer. The ship that launched a thousand thinkpieces, Thom Yorke and co.’s 53 minutes of haunting soundscapes and pre-millennial angst...
WHAT makes a film so good? Well there’s the acting, the cinematography, the direction, editing, lighting and many other things. But a key aspect to the very fabric of the film comes through the...
MUSICAL May continues at Film Torments with the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the Parisian sewers – that also happens to feature Torments’ first recurring director in Tom Hooper – Les Misérables (and his orchestra). Musicals and...
FOUR years after dissolving the project known as LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy is no doubt still getting tweets and emails begging him to resume activity. The project only released three albums during their relatively...
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