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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA (Film)
The one and only Raymond Roussel film adaptation, made by the French TV ace Jean-Christophe Averty
FANTASY MISSION FORCE
This 1983 film is often called the worst Jackie Chan movie ever—it’s certainly the weirdest
RABID
David Cronenberg’s second feature, which stands as an interesting companion-piece to his first, the notorious SHIVERS
DROWNING BY NUMBERS
Three women, all named Cissy, drown their husbands in one of the most inscrutable (and bizarrely entertaining) films made by the UK’s Peter Greenaway
THE HITCHER (1986)
A true slasher classic from the eighties
EVIL ANGELS
A pitiless investigation into the farthest reaches of uncontained passion, adapted for the screen in 1992 by Roman Polanski
THE EXTREMES
There’s an interesting novel lurking in THE EXTREMES by Christopher Priest, but it never quite makes its way to the surface
PFITZ
A witty and concise exercise in postmodern whimsy involving an imaginary city and a very real murder
KATIE
In my view the least of Michael McDowell’s novels, although KATIE contains some good, and on occasion great, elements
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (Book)
One of the more famous late Twentieth Century movie novelizations was this prose rendering of the first STAR TREK feature, credited to series’ creator Gene Roddenberry
HOLLYWOOD ENDING: HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND THE CULTURE OF SILENCE
The latest in a long line of nonfiction accounts of the crimes committed by Harvey Weinstein
I LOST IT AT THE VIDEO STORE
This short and sweet oral history of the VHS era is enjoyable enough, but far from the definitive book on the subject
THE CANNON FILM GUIDE Volume II (1985-1987)
Anyone who’s read my review of volume one of THE CANNON FILM GUIDE will know I’m quite partial to it. Now volume two is here, and I say it’s even better
CIMINO: THE DEER HUNTER, HEAVEN’S GATE AND THE PRICE OF A VISION
A frustrating and inconclusive book, although that’s an inevitability give its subject: the notoriously hermetic Michael Cimino
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
This publication deserves praise for being the first book devoted entirely to HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
On KIN-DZA-DZA!
One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not
H.P. Lovecraft and Colin Wilson: A Match Made in Kadath
About the Lovecraft inspired fiction of the late Colin Wilson
TV Flashback: YOGI AT THE MOVIES
Yogi Berra, film critic?
John Carpenter, Halloween Maestro
The aesthetic qualities of John Carpenter’s films are certainly worth enumerating. My interest here is in how those films and their maker transformed Hollywood
BUBBA HO-TEP at 20
Here’s a film that hasn’t been getting too many retrospectives, but I say it’s deserving of at least one