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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE POLAR EXPRESS
This 2004 movie has problems, but it’s still the most interesting entry in director Robert Zemeckis’ post-2000 filmography
A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS
A shocker: a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie that’s actually good (and not so-bad-it’s-good)
INTERROGATION
This politically minded 1982 film has assumed legendary status in its native Poland, but for American viewers its allure is much simpler: it fits quite snugly into the Women in Prison subgenre
GO AND GET IT
No, it wasn’t the “first” man-in-a-monkey suit film, but this 1920 programmer was quite the oddity
THE SUBSTANCE
Body horror and Hollywood: a true match made in Hell.
OLD DEATH
The posthumously published last novel by David Britton, arguably the most confrontational writer of our time
WHOREDAUGHTER
A depraved blast of deviant behavior and street-level reality from a protege of the late Donald Goines
EXTREME PREJUDICE
Undoubtedly one of Hollywood’s most intriguing “unmade” screenplays
HORROR LIBRARY VOLUME 8
Being familiar with much of editor Eric J. Guignard’s previous output, I had high expectations for this anthology. I wasn’t disappointed
THE CITY OF UNSPEAKABLE FEAR
A rare example of a novel by Belgium’s Jean Ray and an even rarer example of an English translation of Ray’s work
BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. HOW 1999 BLEW UP THE BIG SCREEN
Yes, that title is serious: author Brian Raftery really believes 1999 was the “best” movie year ever
AMERICATHON: THE SKITS BEHIND THE SCREENPLAY
The futuristic comedy AMERICATHON has since become quite the cult item, and this book relates how the movie came about
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
The first and very likely best history of underground “comix” in America
HANCOCK ON HANCOCK
This, the first in-depth account of the life and films of director John Hancock, is an extremely long book (900-plus pages in ebook format), but also a vital one
DON’T DISTURB THE DEAD
DON’T DISTRUB THE DEAD is the first-ever book about the Ramsays, and must be counted as the premiere print resource on the subject
On THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
One of the more bizarre film-related occurrences of our time is the ascension of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION to Great Film status
The Dollar Babies
All about Stephen King’s Dollar Baby program, and the festival it inspired
The Cinerama Dome: A Personal History
The Cinerama Dome, LA’s greatest and most unique movie theater, is now closed.
Performer Profile: Elina Löwensohn
The fabulously exotic Elina Löwensohn, who for a time was the indie “it” girl, and remains an actress to watch
1981: The Year in Bedlam
Just what the title says.