Only in the 70s: Caligula (1979) (NSFW)
AS WE ROUND off this hideous month of humid August, we can find a little time to spotlight a film that festers with glorious, carefree self-indulgence. It’s Bacchanalia at SCM for – yes, really – Caligula....
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Sons of the Silent Age: The innovation and racism of Birth of a Nation
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...
Film Torments: Braveheart (1995)
CONTINUING our desperate foray into the clogging arteries of Oscar Month at Film Torments, we have Rich Kee’s analysis of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart – a film, and I quote, comprised of: “[A] three hour performance of...
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Greed is not good in Hollywood
“WHAT have we done?” Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) asks at the end of The Desolation of Smaug, the second of Peter Jackson’s three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. “I do believe the worst is...
The good, the bad, and the Ring: Re-evaluating Middle Earth – The Two Towers
AFTER tackling Fellowship of the Ring last time, we’re just about ready to clamber up the proverbial Ungol stair of The Two Towers. Unlike Peter Jackson and co, we won’t take more than three hours and we won’t cut...
Film Torments: The Conqueror (1956)
CAST yourself back about 60 years to 1956. It’s a time when the Berlin Wall was but a twinkle in the East German eye; when the Golden Age of Hollywood was limping to a...
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