Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Painless is the impressive directorial debut of Spanish director Juan Carlos Medina, and what a brave debut it is. Set in Catalonia, the film is essentially a double tale — one [...]
Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every once in a while, the world at large is gifted with a piece of art that defies genre categorization and throws the rule books out the window. Its [...]
Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ It’s been a while since I got really excited over a creature feature and I was indeed glad to have come across this gem whilst I was shopping at [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Coming hot on the heels of last year’s Searching for Sugar Man (2012) is A Band Called Death, a rockumetary that treads a now familiar path about a long-forgotten star/band [...]
September 27, 2013
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Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ C.H.U.D is one of those oddities that always stood out from the video shelves whenever I visited the rental outlet back in the mid-80s. After reading the synopsis on the [...]
September 13, 2013
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Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ A killer rubber tire on the loose – with a movie premise like that, my curiosity was definitely piqued. I could smell the potential of a cult classic in this [...]
September 7, 2013
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The cinematic world suffered a great loss with the passing of veteran cinematographer, Gilbert Taylor, on 23 August 2013. He was 99. Taylor was involved with classics like Star Wars, Dr. Strangelove, Flash Gordon, The Omen and our favourite Polanski [...]
Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ To commemorate (cash-in on?) the 40th anniversary of Heavy Traffic‘s 1973 release, Shout! Factory recently released the movie on Blu-ray. The re-mastered picture and sound quality of the new disc [...]
Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I’ve been an avid fan of action flicks ever since I was first introduced to Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury and Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master back in the late [...]
Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ At SCUM Cinema, we have always been great fans of Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club, Guilty of Romance, and most recently a film we reviewed, The Land of Hope). This [...]