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All posts by Topo Sanchez

Terrace House: My secret, guilty pleasure for 2016

The last few days of December (post christmas) can be a strangely, dangerous time. It’s that floaty period where you don’t really have to rush any work deadlines, but neither can you go 100% Holiday mode as well. And it is [...]

January 6, 2017 Reviews

12 Most Outrageous Dance Scenes

So you enjoyed those classic moves from Pulp Fiction, Napoleon Dynamite and Van Damme’s “cheesier-than-7-cheese-pizza” gooeyness in Kickboxer. Well, we dug through our SCUM archive to compile a dozen more to stir your loins…   12. Donga A 1985 Telugu [...]

September 1, 2015 Features

Review: R100 (2013)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ When we first read the synopsis for Hitoshi Matsumoto’s (Big Man Japan) R100, our spidey senses were tingling overtime because we knew that this could possibly be the film to soothe [...]

July 8, 2015 Reviews

Review: Tusk (2014)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ (sorry, I don’t know how to do a 2.5 star!) Kevin Smith’s (Clerks, Dogma) latest offering since 2011’s Red State is a mother lode of bizarre and twisted black humour, titled [...]

January 26, 2015 Reviews

Review: He Took His Skin Off For Me (2014)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Today we came across a gem of a short film that embodies the very ethos of SCUM Cinema; that you don’t need a multi-million budget to produce a genuinely interesting film [...]

January 13, 2015 Reviews

Review: Vengeance is Mine (1979)

  Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Based on the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi, whose killing spree gripped Japan during the late 1963 to early 1964, Vengeance Is Mine is director Shohei Imamura’s masterpiece [...]

November 21, 2014 Reviews

Review: Yi Yi, aka A One and A Two (2000)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ The seventh and final film from Taiwanese New Wave legend Edward Yang, Yi Yi, is an epic masterpiece that gives backstage access to the intricacies of relationships within a family unit, [...]

October 18, 2014 Reviews

Review: Post Tenebras Lux (2012)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming or reminiscing about the past? Do you observe that your thoughts are usually abrupt, non-linear and sometimes purely random? Well, Post Tenebras Lux is kinda [...]

August 15, 2014 Reviews

Review: Under the Skin (2013)

  Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ In this highly anticipated film by acclaimed director Jonathan Glazer, Scarlett Johansson plays an extraterrestrial roaming the streets of Scotland to hunt for male prey. After replicating the guise of [...]

July 18, 2014 Reviews

Review: The Lunchbox (2013)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Set against the backdrop of the mindbogglingly complex food delivery system in Mumbai, the story begins when a “dabbawallah” (food delivery man) sends a “dabba” (tiffin boxes) to the wrong recipient, [...]

June 13, 2014 Reviews