Sword of the Stranger A young boy and his dog find themselves the target of the Ming: a foreign dynasty that will stop at nothing. One day, a
24 x 36: A Movie about Movie Posters The art of the movie poster has become something of a dying breed in the age of blockbusters and studio
This April, SCUM is paying tribute to one of the Masters of Horror, Tobe Hooper! We will be screening two of his unforgettable classics, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The most excellent film to watch in 2019! Kicking off the new year, we are very excited to screen one of the most well-loved buddy comedy of all
Night of the Living SCUFF is back! We will be featuring The Prodigal Son, widely touted as one of the best Kungfu movies ever made. It features two
The Act of Killing is a disturbing new documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer based on the 1965 Indonesian genocide. Joshua managed to track down the actual executioner, Anwar Congo, who had personally executed at least 1000 people, (mostly by strangulation by [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Having read good things about GFP Bunny, I felt slightly disappointed as the closing credits began to roll. The film, which won a Best Picture Award in the 2012 Tokyo [...]
Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Very rarely is there a movie from Hollywood that gets so much buzz and anticipation from the SCUM Cinema camp. I was pretty sceptical about this film, which was probably [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ The Gallery Theatre at the National Museum of Singapore was almost at capacity for the screening of this documentary and for good reason too. Despite some minor shortcomings, Japan Lies [...]
Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Black Belt Jones’ definitely not Academy-Award winning material, but no matter how zany it gets it’s one hell of a ride and entertaining! Let’s face it this b-grade exploitation flick [...]
Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Hentai Kamen was one of the first entries to our blog, so it gives me great pleasure to review this film! First, a quick recap for those of you who [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Part of the Japanese Film Festival’s ‘Around the 80s’ theme, Farewell To The Land was released in 1982 by screenwriter and director Mitsuo Yanagimachi. Screened in crackly, vibrant 35mm to [...]
Martial artist and 70s film icon Jim Kelly has died, aged 67. Kelly was Bruce Lee’s unforgettable co-star in Enter The Dragon (1973) and later starred in Blaxploitation classics including Black Belt Jones (1974) and Three The Hard Way (1974). [...]
We’re unforgivably late in publicizing this, but the annual Japanese Film Festival is on again in Singapore. Built around four themes – Currents, Undercurrents, Around the 80s and Retrospective (of Shindo Kaneto and Yoshimura Kozaburo) – the festival is a [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Since Donnie Yen kicked the living daylights out of the Japanese in Ip Man (2008), we’ve seen a flurry of Ip Man-inspired movies, some good and some not so [...]
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