JAMES Bond parodies. There’s been a whole bunch of them over the years, from Austin Powers to Johnny English to that bizarre time when they tried to make Casino Royale as a comedy. Even...
ALEJANDRO González Iñárritu can never be called deficient in his ambition. Never one to shy away from the dense, ‘hyperlink’ narrative in muddled sprawls like Babel, Iñárritu’s apparent determination to make sense of The Way...
Today Sony unveiled something that could be potentially useful: Spotify will be available on the Playstation 3, 4 and Xperia smartphones on March 29th 2015. The caveat? Well they are also closing their Music...
ARTIFICIAL Intelligence is a topic which every filmmaker seems desperate to stick their stamp on. Steven Spielberg’s promising Kubrick hand-me-down A.I. Artificial Intelligence was ruined by a ludicrously cheesy epilogue back in 2001; since...
TWO SUMMERS ago, I went to the End of the Road festival. Amongst a packed bill of greats like David Byrne & St. Vincent, Eels, Sigur Ros, Frightened Rabbit and Warpaint, the most devastating...
MY FIRST review on SCM was of Selma, a film which made some historical alterations in order to serve its storytelling. Every single biographical film ever made has done this, and as I explained...
LET’S NOT BEAT around the bush. If asked what the most important/best debut of the last 10 years has been, a lot of people would say Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m...
AS A MUSICAL theatre nerd (please don’t question my life choices), no other name fills performers with as much excitement and dread as Stephen Sondheim. Over a career spanning 60 years, starting as a...
FOR ALL THE GIMMICKY horror films that have existed over the years – from rip-offs like Orca to the bafflers like Maximum Overdrive to the gorefests of Evil Dead – the Leprechaun series might...
IN AN AGE OF GUEST stars, I’ve always stuck to my guns and said albums shouldn’t be judged on the amount of cameos it features, else we’d all be crowning Calvin Harris the king...
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