Foo Fighters’ new release fails to impress
IN MY MIND, Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters have never really been an ‘album’ band. Foo Fighters was fine. Wasting Light was fine. The Color and the Shape was fine. But when it comes to...
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Film Torments: Kazaam (1996)
AT SOME hazy point in the 90s, Shaquille O’Neal was huge, and not just 7’1 huge. Next to fellow NBA stars Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, Shaq was one of the most famous athletes...
Review: Dracula Untold – A toothless affair
THERE’S a Welshman at the heart of Transylvania. Much like Anthony Hopkins before him, Luke Evans seems to be carving out a sullen Glamorgan niche in the heart of Hollywood. Unlike Hopkins, however, Evans...
Album released this week in… 1981: KISS – Music from ‘The Elder’
KISS were a band at the peak of their creative and mercantile powers in the mid to late 70s. Powered by power chord slabs and striking aesthetics, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons’ humble beginnings...
The good, the bad, and the Ring: Re-evaluating Middle Earth – The Fellowship of the Ring
WITH the final Hobbit film, The Battle of Five Armies, coming to cinema screens in December – no doubt to assembled choruses of internet viscosity – we at SCM decided to take a long look back at Peter Jackson’s...
Film Torments: Hansel & Gretel – Witch Hunters (2013)
PICTURE the scene. You’re at a meeting at MTV Films meeting (I know, right?) and the boss man says: “Okay, guys, we need a film where we can squeeze Gemma Arterton into a reasonably...
Doctor Who ends well with ‘Death in Heaven’
I wanted to leave some time for the dust to settle before I posted this review. I know that sometimes I can finish watching something and think it was great and, after a few days...
Album released this week in… 1991: My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
NEWCOMERS at the time, My Bloody Valentine burst into the grunge scene with uncontrollable force in the early 90s with their sophomore album Loveless. It promised us just that; a loveless concussion of what...
Film Torments: I, Frankenstein (2014)
WITH hot-off-the-presses cinematic perversion, Dracula Untold, hurling anti-heroic confetti on a much beloved legend among monsters, it’s time we take a sidelong skew at another recent tarnishing of a literary classic: I, Frankenstein. Directed...
Calvin Harris’ ‘Motion’: About as exciting as eating a rice cake
CAST your mind back to 2007 and to the beginning of Calvin Harris’ professional career. His debut, I Created Disco, was a funky, and sometimes funny, release, with hit tracks ‘The Girls’ and ‘Acceptable...
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