THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED
The most notorious “lost” film of our—if not all—time, reviewed in screenplay form
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
Some commentators would have you believe this film is one of John Carpenter’s biggest failures, while others maintain that it’s a masterwork—I say both views are wrong
2023: Bedlam in Print
Looking back over last year’s books!
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL
The long-in-coming memoir by the German filmmaker and sometime actor Werner Herzog
PAUL BARTEL: THE LIFE AND FILMS
A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
It was inevitable that Japan’s Toho Studios, after decades of aggressively rebranding Godzilla for the international market, would finally get it right.
DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL
DIrector Robert Zemeckis’ ambitious but deadening take on Chsrles Dickens’ clsssic
THE PASSIONS OF CAROL
The one and only XXX take-off of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
TV Flashback: A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
The Christmas ghost story is a British tradition that found its ideal screen capture in the BBC’s A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
On KIN-DZA-DZA!
One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not