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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
SOME CALL IT LOVING
The altogether bizarre second feature directed by James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick’s former producing partner
PRIVATE PROPERTY
A “Terrible and disgusting” (so claimed JFK) 1960 indie? Perhaps, but it’s also a good one.
MACISTE IN HELL
A monument of silent era Italian cinema, and one of the screen’s most indelible depictions of Hell
UNDER PARIS
There are worse ways to waste 104 minutes.
TOKYO BLOOD
A 33-minute four parter by Japan’s Sogo Ishii, returning to form after a nine-year gap.
THE CATTLE MUTILATORS
Horror-sci fi about just what the title promises
THE NAUGHTY GIRLS
Not actually a horror novel, but a mainstreamy thriller about a most evil little girl
DINNER AT DEVIANT’S PALACE
A post-apocalyptic fantasy with a difference
GOLEM
Horror ficiton trash about the legendary golem. Don’t expect much.
BLOOD: A TALE
A four-part comic book saga that appeared in 1987, a boom time for adult comics
CONCLUSIONS
Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it
RIDLEY SCOTT: A BIOGRAPHY
A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory
BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER: MEMOIRS OF A NEUROTIC FILMMAKER
Barry Sonnenfeld is a cinematographer-turned-director whose defining trait, it seems, is self-deprecation.
THE BIG GOODBYE: CHINATOWN AND THE LAST YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD
This book is ostensibly about the making of CHINATOWN (1974), but its true concerns are Hollywood in the early 1970s and one of that milieu’s most contentious figures: one Roman Polanski
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE STORY OF NASTASSJA AND KLAUS KINSKI
With this self-published book author W.A. Harbinson has hit upon a topic of unquestioned dramatic intensity: the story of actor Klaus Kinski and his daughter Nastassja
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
TV Flashback: THE STARLOST
This 16 episode SF program from the seventies is, quite simply, a travesty
Harry Stephen Keeler in the Ramble House
Ramble House is a most unique Washington, D.C. residence where three sets of characters get caught up in outrageous tales that involve insanity, séances and time travel