1994: The Year in Bedlam
1994 was the year of PULP FICTION and HOOP DREAMS; here I’ll be concentrating here on thirty lesser-known films, which provide a plethora of genre-spanning quality cinema!
Nicolas Roeg: 1928-2018
On November 23, 2018 we lost one of the world’s greatest filmmakers
William Goldman: 1931-2018
Yet another tragic celebrity death? I’m afraid so. The dear departed this time around is the great William Goldman, one of my longtime heroes
More Scary Kid Lit
A few years ago I wrote about children’s literature of an especially dark and aberrant nature. Here I’ll be revisiting this topic..
Funnybook Flashback: FROM BEYONDE, DOGHEAD and THE BIOLOGIC SHOW
It’s time for another trip back in time to the 1990s, when horror anthologies and David lynch-inspired weirdness were mainstays of the comic book universe—for a time, at least
The Taiwanese Inferno
Hell has always played well on screen. We’ve seen the inferno depicted in countless films over the years, from 1911’s Dante inspired L’INFERNO onwards
BLADE RUNNER: Novel, Treatment, and Movie(s)
Clarification: this article is not actually about BLADE RUNNER (1982). It refers, in fact, to a key line in its end credits sequence: “WITH THANKS TO WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND ALAN E. NOURSE FOR THE USE OF THE TITLE BLADE RUNNER.”
The Complete Memoirs of Charles Willeford
Here I’ll be looking at four autobiographical volumes by the late Charles Willeford
1995: The Year in Bedlam
Some great films premiered in 1995, including Michael Mann’s HEAT, Todd Haynes’s SAFE and Mike Figgis’s LEAVING LAS VEGAS
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts