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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE MAJESTIC
One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs
DISLOCATION
From China, a heavily stylized sci-fi satire
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
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
DARKTOWN STRUTTERS
A blaxploitation movie parody that’s funny, illuminating and often downright ugly
BLIND VOICES
A “breathtakingly good” horror-fantasy novel? I beg to differ!
THE GLASS CAGE
An “unconventional detective story” by the inimitable Colin Wilson
FADE
It feels wrong to criticize a novel for being too ambitious, but this would-be epic about invisibility is too ambitious
MYTHAGO WOOD
The first of Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood saga, about a mythologically endowed British woodland
RAPTOR RED
The 1990s dinosaur craze found a most unexpected apotheosis in this Cretaceous Period set novel told from the point of view of a raptor
YOU’VE GOT RED ON YOU: HOW SHAUN OF THE DEAD WAS BROUGHT TO LIFE
The making of SHAUN OF THE DEAD is covered with admirable thoroughness in this beautifully designed book
I WAS FLESH GORDON
FLESH GORDON is a film whose behind-the-scenes drama was arguably more compelling than what ended up onscreen, as proven by this book
THE STRANGE WORLD OF WILLIE SEABROOK
All about the late travelogue writer William Seabrook and his weird fetishes, written by his wife
I AM NOT ASHAMED
This shouldn’t be taken as a definitive biographical resource, but as an unabashedly sensationalistic Old Hollywood expose it’s pretty damn compelling
DANGEROUS VISIONS AND NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION, 1950-1985
If you’re a fan of literary science fiction this book is absolutely essential reading
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR vs. EO
Two donkey-headlined films, one from 1966 and one from 2022, one an enduring classic and the other not quite
On SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG
In the lexicon of “revolutionary” black cinema SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG exists in a category of its own
2022: Bedlam in Print
The standout books of 2022, as chosen by me
2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
2022: A Look Back in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Look Back in Bedlam year end overview