Peace’s Happy People – an exciting and enjoyable Indie Pop album
FIRST and foremost I would like to admit that I was wrong. When I first spied Peace staring haughtily from the pages of the NME at me in 2012, I cast them off as...
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STOP THE PRESSES: Netflix reportedly developing Legend of Zelda series
Well golly gee! According to The Wall street Journal, Netflix and Nintendo are joining forces to develop a live action show based on The Legend of Zelda franchise. This news comes from someone ”...
Album released this week in… 2007: Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City
IN 2007 I WAS GOING through my Alternative Rock/Folk phase. I was listening to bands like Jonquil and Sigur Ros and musicians like Beck. As many people do, I latched onto a specific music...
Review: Inherent Vice – Impenetrable yet fantastic adaptation
IN AN ERA OF MOVIES where classic Hollywood stories are ruling the mainstream and action/superhero movies are garnering the majority of the attention, it’s nice to see a film that completely breaks these prototypical narratives...
What can we expect from new The Walking Dead?
ON FEBRUARY the 8th, The Walking Dead returns to screens in the U.S. With the first half of series five leaving viewers shocked (and some angry with AMC for spoiling it via social media)...
Film Torments: The Golden Compass (2007)
IT’S OSCAR month at SCM, but not the one you were thinking of. This wintry February of Film Torments is dedicated to some of the most undeserving winners of actual Academy Awards, ranging from...
Review: Big Hero 6 – Deeply enjoyable if generic superhero fare
BIG HERO 6 is Disney’s latest addition to their animated canon, and is perhaps the ultimate example of a film which would have been far better received if it came out ten years ago....
Predicting the BRIT Awards
YES, IT’S THAT time of year again friends, everyone’s favourite awards, the BRITs! Once again (Sh)ITV will be hosting the star studded ceremony which will this year be hosted Ant and Dec. At least...
Album released this week in… 1968: The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
IN STARK contrast to the safe solo work of Lou Reed that Dan looked back on at the start of the month, I have taken the opportunity to have a look at some of...
Only in the 70s: An American Hippie in Israel (1972)
IN THE WAKE of Easy Rider, young filmmakers across America thought they could bandy out their own acid-flecked, “maaaaan”-laden approximation of the counter-cultural American Dream. They forgot – or were too stoned to notice...
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