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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE SHROUDS
Cronenberg’s latest, a so-so excercise in brooding despair
FILME DEMÊNCIA
A weird Faust movie in the grand tradition of weird Faust movies
ALTERED STATES
From Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell, a weird and wonderful sci fi freak-out with something for everybody
CHERRY 2000
Above-average Maxploitation madness from 1986
THE RUNNING MAN (1987)
The original adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, hailing from 1987
CHRONOLYSIS
Disorienting is the word for this very Phil Dickian excercise in reality displacement
HUMANIMALITY
A self-proclaimed “hybrid monster of a book that interrogates humanity’s troubled relationship with its animality, & so its relation to animals, the earth, and ultimately the cosmos”
SNAIL
I don’t know what kind of drugs Richard Miller was on when he wrote this novel, but I want some
NOCTURNAL APPARITIONS: ESSENTIAL STORIES
A newly translated assortment of “Essential Stories” by Poland’s Bruno Schulz
BURNT OFFERINGS
Potent but overrated haunted house scares from the 1970s
INSOMNIA
In which The Band’s late Robbie Robertson dishes on his drug taking days with Martin Scorsese
THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
A terrifically entertaining Hollywood memoir by novelist/screenwriter/director Nicholas Meyer
SILENT TRIGGER: SHOOTING THE FILM
A passionate celebration of SILENT TRIGGER (1996), a straight to video thriller that’s received very little attention
SCENE
The long-in-coming memoir by Abel Ferrara, who after Martin Scorsese can be dubbed the ultimate New York filmmaker
DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES: MIRAMAX, SUNDANCE, AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT FILM
Peter Biskind’s riotously compelling chronicle of the American independent film revolution of the 1990s
Udo Kier: 1944-2025
Celebrating an actor who “never learned to act” and functioned equally well in camp and serious drama
Tatsuya Nakadai: 1932-2025
Who is the greatest actor you’ve (probably) never heard of? I’d nominate the recently deceased Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the major players in classic Japanese cinema
Fast Times with the Uncool
On Cameron Crowe’s FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (the book) and THE UNCOOL
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Antifa and Brett Easton Ellis
As of October 2025, the major movie-related controversy is over Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Drew Struzan: 1947-2025
Celebrating the work of America’s most iconic movie poster artist