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SILENT TRIGGER: SHOOTING THE FILM

A passionate celebration of SILENT TRIGGER (1996), a straight to video thriller that’s received very little attention

The long-in-coming memoir by Abel Ferrara, who after Martin Scorsese can be dubbed the ultimate New York filmmaker

Peter Biskind’s riotously compelling chronicle of the American independent film revolution of the 1990s

A book about the life (and death) of everybody’s favorite Canadian funnyman John Candy

A nifty book-length study (the first, if I’m not mistaken) of disease/pandemic movies

A resolutely witty and enjoyable recounting of a couple years in the life of the Australian film director Bruce Beresford

A hilarious and endearing account of the making of “The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” and the friendship that forged it.

The stranger-then-fiction story of the making of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION

In remembrance of actor Michael Madsen, who died on July 3, 2025, here’s a look at his first book of poetry

A gossipy memoir by one of the main architects of the movie apocalypse that occurred in the late 1970s and early 80s