Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Back in ’82, one of my primary school classmates passed me the bootleg version of “Zombi 2″ on VHS. The visual and audio quality were pretty nasty and I could only [...]
Review by Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Stumbling out of the National Museum after viewing the restored Singhalese classic, Nidhanaya (1972), I was greeted by rain as I made my way to an eagerly-awaited SGIFF (Singapore International Film Festival) [...]
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 [...]
Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ “Brilliant”. That was the first word that came to mind after I finished The Raid 2. I remember watching Ong Bak a number of years back followed by Chocolate [...]
Review by Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ The 1970s seems to have been one of the most fruitful decades for movie genres we just love at SCUM. Blaxploitation, pinku, grindhouse… and in the form of Deliverance (1972), the survival [...]
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, [...]
Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Sonny Chiba shines as the anti-hero Tamuka Tsurugi, a hired assassin capable of taking out entire armies with his deadly fists. Sonny Chiba’s a killing machine here, truly ferocious and merciless. At [...]
Review by Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’m told by Topo Sanchez that Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise screened in Singapore during one of the country’s film festivals in the 1990s. For late-comers like myself, who [...]
Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Frankly I do not even know where to begin with this ultra-cheesy entry from Mexico! This one’s released during the Batman craze back in the late 1960s. Somehow DC Comics didn’t sue for [...]
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 [...]
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