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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ANGEL DUST
A very quirky, stylized serial killer drama from Japan’s Sogo Ishii
AUTONOMOUS
Something new: a digitally lensed “Micro Horror” series about an evil self-driving car
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
One of the standout roles of the late Diane Keaton was in this dark 1977 drama, which Stephen King called one of the scariest films of all time
MY SCIENCE PROJECT
A 1985 Disney product that partook, clumsily, of the year’s popular teens-and-SF movie model
PAYCHECK
Further proof that Hollywood is incapable of doing justice to the work of Philip K. Dick
THE WILD
Whitley Strieber once called this his “breakthrough” novel and then decided it wasn’t all that; in truth it falls somewhnere in between those poles
NIGHTSHADE & DAMNATIONS
A grouping of the best stories of the inimitable Gerald Kersh, selected and introduced by the equally inimitable Harlan Ellison
A CRACKUP AT THE RACE RIOTS
A curiously beautiful, one of a kind grotesquerie from the inimitable Harmony Korine
GHOSTBURB PSYCHO
From the land down under, a black-humored exercise in demented misanthropy that recalls FANTAZIUS MALLARE and FIGHT CLUB.
PIRANESI
A surreal fantasy that I found overrated
THE MAKING OF QUENTIN TARANTINO’S ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
A deep dive into the creation of Quentin Tarantino’s most recent film
INSOMNIA
In which The Band’s late Robbie Robertson dishes on his drug taking days with Martin Scorsese
THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
A terrifically entertaining Hollywood memoir by novelist/screenwriter/director Nicholas Meyer
SILENT TRIGGER: SHOOTING THE FILM
A passionate celebration of SILENT TRIGGER (1996), a straight to video thriller that’s received very little attention
SCENE
The long-in-coming memoir by Abel Ferrara, who after Martin Scorsese can be dubbed the ultimate New York filmmaker
2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
2025: A Look Back in Bedlam
2025 in review: The good, the bad and the many noteworthy deaths!
The Bad Christmas Movie
Christmas movies are eternally revered, but in recent years a (relatively) new format has gained in popularity: the Bad Christmas movie
Udo Kier: 1944-2025
Celebrating an actor who “never learned to act” and functioned equally well in camp and serious drama
Tatsuya Nakadai: 1932-2025
Who is the greatest actor you’ve (probably) never heard of? I’d nominate the recently deceased Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the major players in classic Japanese cinema