On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
THE KILLING OF THE UNICORN: DOROTHY STRATTEN 1960-1980
A grief-fueled remembrance of the late Dorothy Stratten by “the director who loved her.”
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
IMAGES
A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch
LOUIS THE 19th, KING OF THE AIRWAVES
A once-outlandish French-Canadian comedy about a thoroughly Average Joe who finds himself the star of a reality TV program
THE HOUSE THAT GROANED
A graphic novel that’s plenty weird, with a narrative that leans rather heavily into the perverse and psychosexual
Confessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer
Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd
DARKTOWN STRUTTERS
A blaxploitation movie parody that’s funny, illuminating and often downright ugly
POLTERGEIST III
The Second sequel to POLTERGEIST, and about on par with the first, which is to say a mixed bag: bombastic, cynical and plain dumb, but with some affecting elements
POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE
A lousy movie, yes, but one that actually improves upon its predecessor in many respects.