MERRY CHRISTMAS
A Bollywood Christmas movie with everything you’d expect
STAND BY ME
In remembering the recently deceased Rob Reiner, I’ll be taking the good with the bad. Here’s the good…
NORTH
…and here’s the (very) bad.
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
A lesser film by Belgium’s Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, who specialize in uniquely tripped-out takes on European genre cinema from years past
PROFESSOR DOWELL’S HEAD
A Soviet sci fi lark from the 1920s, a far simpler time when authors tended to run riot with coincidence and weird science in pursuit of a good story
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
INSOMNIA
In which The Band’s late Robbie Robertson dishes on his drug taking days with Martin Scorsese
CHERRY 2000
Above-average Maxploitation madness from 1986