2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
2022: A Look Back in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Look Back in Bedlam year end overview
Ruggero Deodato: 1939-2022
My thoughts on the recently deceased director of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
On HOME ALONE
One of the more inexplicable cultural touchstones of our era is 1990’s HOME ALONE
TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
Stephen King adapts THE KINGDOM, and not very well
Albert Pyun: 1953-2022
There was simply no one else like the Hawaiian-bred Albert Pyun, one of the most irrepressible directors working in any genre
Reconsidering Nineties Flops
There’s something about the movie flops of the 1990s
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
EYES WITHOUT A FACE vs. THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS
In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version
On Michael Haneke and Emotional Glaciation
A thematic trilogy that marked the emergence of a unique and vital auteur, and exerted a rather sizeable impact on European cinema as a whole