SCUM CINEMA PRESENTS: The Warriors VENUE: The Arts House Screening Room DATE & TIME: 28 February 2014, 8:30pm RATING: M18 (Violence) COST: Free admission – This film is rated M18, therefore all patrons need to be at least 18 years [...]
Best known for his legendary mockumentary Zombie Dogs (a.k.a. Eat Shit Fuck & Die), Singaporean film-maker Toh Hai Leong died yesterday at the age of 58. According to The Straits Times, he succumbed to ‘diabetes-related pneumonia‘. Hai Leong was a one-of-a-kind [...]
Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’ve been a fan of action/kung-fu films for a while now and I’m glad that aside from Tony Jaa and Jeeja Yanin, we have another action star in-the-making from [...]
Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 28 Days Later was not the first film to feature running zombies. That honour belongs to Lifeforce, which is, of course, one of the greatest, if not the greatest [...]
December 18, 2013
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Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Brian De Palma’s The Fury (1978) gets the high definition treatment with not one but two Blu-ray releases this year. Back in March, Twilight Time released their Blu-ray of The Fury for [...]
November 29, 2013
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Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ During the 80s and 90s, Donnie Yen’s had some hits and misses with the movies he’s starred in. Over the last couple of years, I was glad that he was [...]
November 16, 2013
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Review by: Mountain Monkey Hong Kong film fans in Singapore were offered a rare treat last month, when the National Museum of Singapore presented ‘The Story of Kong Ngee’ retrospective. Presented in conjunction with the Hong Kong Film Archive, 15 Cantonese [...]
November 15, 2013
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SCUM CINEMA PRESENTS: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin + 5 Deadly Venoms VENUE: The Arts House Screening Room DATE & TIME: 13 December 2013, 7:30pm RATING: NC16 COST: Free admission Kicking-off a series of bi-monthly, free screenings of cult classics, [...]
These days, we are bombarded with so many reel gems sitting around in YouTube that we decided to start a new feature (where we spend hours) sifting out the best in class, so you dont have to. Whenever possible, we [...]
November 8, 2013
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Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Available on DVD as part of Quentin Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature, and also on Blu-ray from Japan (warning, no English subtitles available with the Japanese release), I finally [...]