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...
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...
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...
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...
WHIPLASH is faster, more brutal and more exhilarating than even its fast, brutal and exhilarating title would suggest. It’s also, fittingly, just as painful. Rarely have I found myself visibly wincing through the entirety...
HISTORY and film have a funny old relationship. A significant portion of films are based on historical events, and these events are better-remembered as a result of these films. Historical films are, by-and-large, more...
TIME is Illmatic takes about four minutes in its opening to establish the earth-shattering importance of Nas’ 1994 opus, Illmatic. The album, celebrating its 20th year, is a merciless, comprehensive address to the social ills...
GIVEN the recent over-saturation of vampires in popular culture – perhaps second-only to zombies for most overused celluloid nasty – it was perhaps inevitable that they’d receive a lampoon that wasn’t written by faecal-obsessed...
EVERYTHING’S been coming up Cumberbatch in the last couple of years. Not content with dominating the tumblrs of teenage girls with fellow Brit-thesp-heartthrob Tom Hiddleston, Benedict has managed to star in films as far-branching...
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