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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
HARDCORE
A strong film that could have been much better
THE JUDAS PROJECT
Although mostly forgotten these days, THE JUDAS PROJECT, which asked “What if Jesus Christ came for the first time in 1993?,” was very likely the most ambitious evangelical film of the 1990s
THE MAJESTIC
One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs
DISLOCATION
From China, a heavily stylized sci-fi satire
FEAR IS THE MASTER
An astounding hour long documentary chronicling the “Disco Sex Guru” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990), who together with a bevy of followers literally took over the town of Antelope, Oregon in 1981
FOG HEART
In my view one of the absoloute finest books by horror writer extraordinaire Thomas Tessier
THE HOUSE THAT GROANED
A graphic novel that’s plenty weird, with a narrative that leans rather heavily into the perverse and psychosexual
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NIGHT
This 1945 novel is considered the masterpiece of the “French Kafka” Marcel Bealu (1908-1993)
LOCUS SOLUS
The materpiece of France’s Raymond Roussel, and one of the most astonishing displays of unfettered imagination I’ve ever experienced
IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA
Raymond Roussel may well be the strangest writer of all time and this 1910 novel offers ample proof of that claim
ART! TRASH! TERROR! ADVENTURES IN STRANGE CINEMA
Quite simply, if you’re a horror fan this book, which collects several decades’ worth of reviews of “movies that refuse to behave,” is a must read
THE KILLING OF THE UNICORN: DOROTHY STRATTEN 1960-1980
A grief-fueled remembrance of the late Dorothy Stratten by “the director who loved her.”
IMAGES
A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch
ECCO: THE STORY OF A FAKE MAN ON 42ND STREET
This is actually the final issue of the initial iteration of SLEAZOID EXPRESS, which took the form of a nonfiction novella by that publication’s editors Bill Landis and Jimmy McDonough
QUENTIN TARANTINO: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
A graphic novel biography of Quentin Tarantino that is, as the front cover makes clear, “Unofficial and Unauthorized”
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
Confessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer
Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd
George Armitage: 1942-2025
On February 15, 2025, one of America’s most individual, and least known, filmmakers left us
On SLEAZOID EXPRESS
Of the “Big Three” horror/exploitation film review zines, which included PSYCHOTRONIC and GORE GAZETTE, SLEAZOID EXPRESS tends to be the most acclaimed, and apparently boasted “The largest circulation of anything of its particular type.”
Werner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS EVENTS
It certainly seemed like a good idea: a Russian American co-production in which six world class directors partook in “the gigantic cinematic canvas of historical change in Russia,”