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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
AKIRA
This is the 1988 cyberpunk-themed anime feature that, prior to game-changers like GHOST IN THE SHELL and PERFECT BLUE, irrevocably altered the format
WHALE MUSIC
The late John Candy was a galvanizing force behind this film, which was released in 1994 (the year of Candy’s demise)
GOING BERSERK
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the untimely March 4, 1994 death of the great John Candy, here’s a look back at his first-ever Hollywood starring vehicle
SURVIVING LIFE
A standout effort from the incomparable Jan Svankmajer
GANJA & HESS
Arthouse vampire thrills from the late Bill Gunn
9/30/55
A unique movie novelization from one of the top novelizers of the 1970s and 80s
THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED
The most notorious “lost” film of our—if not all—time, reviewed in screenplay form
FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND
Certainly one of the most unusual novels to emerge from the 1930s hard-boiled school
THE STRANGERS
A vastly overpraised novel, but one that imparts a powerful sense of near-otherworldly strangeness
THE LAST CHILDREN
This uber-bleak depiction of a post-nuclear Germany was published, unbelievably enough, as a children’s book
THE MONSTER SHOW: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF HORROR
20th Century horror, as covered by the enromously intelligent and always entertaining David J. Skal
GILLIAMESQUE
A “Pre-Posthumous Memoir” by the outspoken London-based cartoonist-turned-director Terry Gilliam, and everything you’d expect
NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST
From the underground publishing outfit Amok Books, a sumptuously designed art book about a most unique European art collective
THE EXOTIC ONES: THAT FABULOUS FILMMAKING FAMILY FROM MUSIC CITY, USA–THE ORMONDS
It’s hard to believe this large format hardcover is the first book devoted to the Ormonds, but I’m glad it’s finally here, and that it delivers on its promise
AESTHETIC DEVIATIONS: A CRITICAL VIEW OF AMERICAN SHOT-ON-VIDEO HORROR, 1984-1994
The first in-depth critical study of SOV horror, written by an author who really appreciates this stuff
On KIN-DZA-DZA!
One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not
H.P. Lovecraft and Colin Wilson: A Match Made in Kadath
About the Lovecraft inspired fiction of the late Colin Wilson
TV Flashback: YOGI AT THE MOVIES
Yogi Berra, film critic?
John Carpenter, Halloween Maestro
The aesthetic qualities of John Carpenter’s films are certainly worth enumerating. My interest here is in how those films and their maker transformed Hollywood
BUBBA HO-TEP at 20
Here’s a film that hasn’t been getting too many retrospectives, but I say it’s deserving of at least one