Review: Lights Out – The value of a good monster
BEFORE I saw Lights Out, I was feeling pretty ambivalent. On the one hand, the short film that it’s based on is fantastic; on the other, the feature adaptation was produced by James Wan,...
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Film Torments: A Serbian Film (2010)
THIS week on Film Torments’ Month of Misery – you might have heard about this one. Many words have been used to describe Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film. Disgusting, extreme, horrifying, even – according...
Review: Star Trek Beyond – The saviour of the summer
SINCE its inception, Star Trek has had its highs and its lows. However, since J.J. Abrams’ reboot/alternative reality setting kicked off, things have been on the up, even if Into Darkness did divide some...
Review: Suicide Squad – Another nail in DC’s coffin
This review contains mild spoilers. LET’S get something out the way; the DC cinematic universe is having a bit of a rocky ride at the moment. With Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice failing...
Review: Batman: The Killing Joke – An underwhelming yet passable adaptation
FULL, weeping spoilers ahead. Consider yourself warned. IT’S FINALLY time, once again, for a graphic novel by Alan Moore to be adapted to film. Not that you’ll ever see the infamous curmudgeon’s name in...
Review: Tale of Tales – A gorgeous vision of Giamattista Basile’s dark classics
ADAPTED from the works of the Neapolitan poet, courtier and folklorist Giamattista Basile (c.1565-1632) principally, his Lo Cunto de li Cunti, overo trattenemiento de peccerille- The Tale of Tales, or entertainments for the little ones,...
Review: Ghostbusters – Late-night TV fodder
WARNING: Contains mild spoilers. WITH its trailer becoming the most disliked in YouTube history, it’s safe to say that the new Ghostbusters movie hasn’t had the greatest start in life. With fan boys and...
Review: Independence Day: Resurgence – A perfectly serviceable popcorn-cruncher
ROLAND Emmerich knows how to make a blockbuster. He paints, in the broadest strokes imaginable, on a canvas bigger than the Sun, the things that will make an audience shovel popcorn in their faces...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 10 – The Winds of Winter
HOUSE SCM MOTTO: What is spoiled may never be a spoiler. Before we begin, I want to ask, regardless of how good this episode was, does this season deserve a good finale? As fine...
Review: The Do-Over – A shrieking nothing of an Adam Sandler comedy
I DON’T know what dying feels like, but I imagine The Do-Over comes pretty close. The gradual numbing of both my senses and my body; the sensation that my very essence was dribbling out...
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