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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
DON’T LOOK AT ME: DAVID LYNCH
This 1989 French TV profile is one of the more fascinating documentaries on the late David Lynch
THE BLOB (1988)
Here’s a rare case in which a horror movie remake actually surpasses its source
THE NEST
A mutant roach cheapie that delivers exactly what you’d expect
STRANGE DAYS
If there’s such a thing as a New Years thriller then 1995’s STRANGE DAYS is certainly an ideal candidate
NIGHT OF THE COMET
“Valley girls at the end of the world” was the pitch by writer-director Thom Eberhardt for this low budgeter from 1984
WHERE THE NIGHTMARE ENDS
A posthumously published horror novel by the late critic Robin Wood
THE SNOW-WHITE SOLILOQUIES
Amid all the modern-day ire being aired about Snow White, here’s a most unorthodox, 1970 take on that immortal Brothers Grimm fairy tale
HOUSE OF FLESH
Yet another novel that was considered quite the shocker when it was initially published, but now…
AFTER THE BOMB
A very eighties Cold War inflected post-nuke novel
MAN WITH FOUR LIVES
From 1935: good writing, good story, crummy ending
THE BIG LOVE
If nothing else, this outrageous showbiz memoir serves as a fitting footnote to HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
JOHN McTIERNAN: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ACTION MOVIE ICON
Few directors have had a more dramatic career trajectory than John McTiernan
BEYOND WORDS: A YEAR WITH KENNETH COOK
For anyone interested in the work of Australia’s late Kenneth Cook this book is a veritable goldmine
KEN RUSSELL: A DIRECTOR IN SEARCH OF A HERO
A short book but also a valuable one, representing as it does a meeting of two most interesting minds: author Colin Wilson and filmmaker Ken Russell
INVASION OF THE SPACE INVADERS
Here we have a definite literary oddity, a celebration of the video game scene of the early 1980s by the snootier-than-thou British novelist Martin Amis
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
THE CRIMINALS series
There’s something about a multi-part crime movie, particularly a Shaw Brothers crime movie, that compels
Performer Profile: Larry B. Scott
As a child of the eighties who happened to be a prolific moviegoer, I couldn’t help but notice the presence of Larry B. Scott