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All posts by Menstrual Bazin

Top 10 Cinephile Destinations

  Love Film, Will Travel. Foodies will fly halfway across the world to eat raw brains off a live donkey, while animal lovers fly to Germany to make sweet love to one. If you can pry a cinephile off their local [...]

November 18, 2015 Features

10 Commonly Misused Terms in Cinema

Countdown of top 10 common Cine faux pas to avoid for any self-respecting movie buff or cinephile: 10. Silent Film Usually accompanied by anything from a guitar, piano, to an entire orchestra. The term “silent film” is a retronym, coined [...]

August 15, 2015 Features

Top 10 Movies Shot in Singapore

From film royalty like Hitchcock and Méliès (Gaston) to cult figures like Wong Jing 王晶 and Murakami 村上 龍, Singapore’s had her ass shot by some of the world’s finest. Here we list the absolute best and/or most important movies [...]

August 5, 2015 Features

10 Ripoff Movies That Surpassed the Original

Original doesn’t always mean better. Many of them ain’t exactly original in the first place. Sometimes rip offs are just as good. (eg Dredd  vs The Raid). But more often, they are lamer. (eg. Cecil B Demented vs. Why Don’t [...]

July 26, 2015 Features

10 Better BDSM Movies for the Badasss – a SCUM makeover

Every top ten list of movies often feature the usual suspects. Are those movies really that good? Or are people just ripping off each other’s list? Here at SCUM, we decided to offer our perfect antidote to the 10 typical, [...]

June 14, 2015 Features

The Great Digital Con (aka the virtues of watching TV in public)

  “Screening films in digital is like forcing audiences to watch television in public.” – Tarantino In just 5 short years the industry killed off film for digital. They saved billions serving us movies in cinema as digital videos stored [...]

May 24, 2015 Features

Review: The Room (2003)

Review by: Menstrual Bazin SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆  It is with great audacity that I attempt to review the movie that is THE very definition of what a cult movie is. Something that S.C.U.M’s wet dreams are made [...]

May 12, 2015 Reviews

Review: Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (2014)

Review by: Menstrual Bazin SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ I remembered how it felt the day my first car was sold off for scrap. Worst feeling ever. I’m not a petrol head, and it wasn’t even my car! It was [...]

May 1, 2015 Reviews