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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
DONKEY SKIN
A fairy tale adaptation from 1970 that despite a creepy incest angle emerges as a justified classic
COLOR OF NIGHT
I wish I could report that COLOR OF NIGHT, the final film directed by filmmaker extraordinaire Richard Rush, was a superior example of the erotic thriller format, but I’m afraid that’s not the cas
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
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 LATE GREAT CREATURE
I know this literary relic is considered a “lost classic” by many, but it did very little for me
LOVE KILLS
The wild and outrageous inverse of Shane Stevens’ seminal serial killer classic BY REASON OF INSANITY
FEMALE PSYCHO WARD!!!
Behold: emerging from the smut book underground of the 1960s, the “latest sellout” by the prolific trash-meister Con Sellers, a novel its publishers predicted was “going to make headlines from one end of the country to the other!”
VAMPIRE JUNKIES
A rare foray into vampire lore by science fiction legend Norman Spinrad
THE NANNY
Sexy, suspenseful, ominous and gripping: this is a nifty thriller with a well sustained tone of rising apprehension and a convincing depiction of parental angst
MY BEST FRIEND’S BIRTHDAY: THE MAKING OF A QUENTIN TARANTINO FILM
The first and only tome about the making of Quentin Tarantino’s never completed debut film
I’M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY
This memoir, by a famous movie star, poet and Mark Twain enthusiast, is the product of a celebrity who is overprivilaged without question, but not uninteresting
THE GUTTENBERG BIBLE
To those of us who came of age in the 1980s actor Steve Guttenberg is a familiar and perhaps even beloved figure
APROPOS OF NOTHING
It’s an interesting thing about Woody Allen: not too long ago he was considered the epitome of class and sophistication, but now he’s a pariah
I’M SCREAMING AS FAST AS I CAN: MY LIFE IN B-MOVIES
A slim but reasonably satisfying mini-memoir by Linnea Quigley, the most prominent of the 1980s and ‘90s scream queens
TV Flashback: THE BOY WITH TWO HEADS
Here’s proof of something I’ve long believed: children’s programming is the weirdest that exists
9/11 and The Media
9/11 in the media: the (amost) good, the (mostly) bad and (extremely) ugly
Funnybook Flashback: The Grant Morrison DOOM PATROL
Not his best work, but certainly among his most representative
1980: The Year in Bedlam
In this Year in Bedlam overview, highlighting 30 lesser-known and/or underappreciated film releases, I’ll be exploring 1980
AMERICAN ME vs. BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT
Two early 1990s films that are quite similar in conception, and were lensed virtually simultaneously