HERE at SCM, we don’t often get the chance to review every single album or song that creeps into the musical world. So with that in mind, SCM Music have compiled some of our...
I HAVE ONLY recently rediscovered the distinct sound of Laura Marling and with her fifth album being released, I just had to check it out. The new album Short Movie, takes a somewhat new...
NEILL Blomkamp is anything but subtle. District 9 – a searing examination of Apartheid via explosions and clicky-faced “prawns” – was an arresting debut that pushed all the right buttons before descending into an...
EVERYONE knows it. Everybody knows THAT riff. DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DERRRRR-DERRRR. In case you didn’t understand, that was my rendition of ‘Seven Nation Army’, a song that took the world by storm. But this is not an argument...
THIS month’s theme at Film Torments ranks among the most consistently creatively-bankrupt practices in the film industry – sequels. This week, Rich Kee examines the much-maligned follow-up to a classic that nobody asked for: Blues Brothers 2000....
NO, THIS is not an April Fool’s. Honest. I’m just as surprised as you are. George Jones, in his first article for SCM, takes us through the reasons why Spider-Man 3 – yes, that one –...
FOR MUSIC of any genre, repetition is a trap an artist can’t afford to fall into. Alas, if The Day is My Enemy is anything to go by, The Prodigy are a wild animal...
THE LATEST phase in dystopian films, with the likes of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner series, has a seen a number of similarly-themed movies come to our screens. The Divergent series is...
‘THE TAB ON the tea bag said “Love what is ahead by loving what was come before.” But what came before was no dream you wake from, it was human sacrifice’ – Jean Valentine,...
AFTER last week’s break from Torments, we return with a senile vengeance for 1978’s self-regarding debacle: Sextette. Mae West was one of the most notorious performers in Hollywood during her 1930s-40s heyday. Mired in controversy for...
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