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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
BUFFET FROID
A very bizarre 1979 comedy by France’s Bertrand Blier that functions as a film noir parody, a cautionary essay on contemporary dehumanization and an unfiltered blast of surreal invention
FAUST (1994)
Jan Svankmajor does FAUST. Need I say more?
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
The “Most Amazing, Incredible, Remarkable True Story Ever Told”?
MIDORI-KO
The magnum opus of Japanese dementoid Keita Kurosaka
BATTLEFIELD EARTH
A rare example of a film to which the passage of time has actually been kind
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
SPACE ODYSSEY: STANLEY KUBRICK, ARTHUR C. CLARKE, AND THE MAKING OF A MASTERPIECE
Appearing just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, this book can lay claim to being the definitive resource on the making of that classic
SONG OF SPIDER-MAN
Here we get the inside story of SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK, apparently the “Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History.”
MY LAST BREATH
This was the final testament of Luis Bunuel, one of the world’s great troublemakers
BRONSON’S LOOSE!
Right now, with the Eli Roth directed remake of 1974’s DEATH WISH currently in theatrical release, I’d say it’s an opportune time for a look back at this book
BRAVE
In recent years Rose McGowan has gone from being a semi-famous actress, in films like THE DOOM GENERATION, JAWBREAKER and GRINDHOUSE, to a passionate feminist crusader
THE CELL at 20
On THE CELL (2000) and the effects, pro and con, of controversy
TV Flashback: ARABELA
Of the imposing achievements of Czech fantasy television, the 1979 miniseries ARABELA is at the forefront
Exotic Dancers and the Devil in the Swinging Sixties
Exotic Dancers and the devil: a curiously appropriate pairing, especially in Europe
Blood Letters and Trashy Movies in the South Sea
On December 19, 1978 the so-called “Blood Letter from Nanhai” made its bow in the Taiwanese Central Daily News
1983: The Year in Bedlam
If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap