‘KILL the Boy’ sees us jump to the resolution of last week’s skirmish between Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) and Ser Barristan’s (Ian McElhinney) beleaguered unsullied patrol and ambushing sons of the harpy, in what...
HELLO and welcome to a new, hopefully irregular feature in the annals of SCM: Sons of the Silent Age. In this feature, we’ll be examining the continuing resonance of silent films, their influence on contemporary cinema...
SPOILERS AHOY, steer clear if you’re not up to date. As I sit here writing this, the General Election has been called; the Conservatives reign supreme in the Kingdom and most traces of opposition...
FOR MANY slackers and dreamers out there, American ‘Geek Rock’ band Weezer’s self-titled debut album still stands today as one of the pivotal albums of the 1990s. Weezer; the band with a name that...
THE WACHOWSKI siblings have traded on ideas in an ideas-unfriendly Hollywood system for well over a decade now. Since their breakout hit The Matrix (and its critically-beleaguered sequels), Lana and Andy have never been...
In this month’s Breaking Down The Backlog: I committed war-crimes, saved the world on no less than two occasions & learned to be brave Dust: An Elysian Tale was a game which I came to with...
HELLO and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all, to a putting on of the Ritz. The theme for this Film Torments month of Musical May is… yeah. It’s Musical May at SCM, and we’ll...
MILES Davis is one of the all-time titans of jazz music, there’s no getting around it. Davis was at the forefront of several defining moments in jazz, from the ‘cool’, swing-inflected Birth of the...
SCM’s SEQUELS Month marches into the sunset with a long look at one of the 70s’ most forgotten works of social justice: 1971’s Billy Jack. The early gasp of the 70s was a time...
WITH the recent unveiling of Marvel Studios’ five-year plan for world domination, it must be difficult for individual filmmakers to make their mark with such a fixed schedule. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, much like...
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