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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
GANJA & HESS
Arthouse vampire thrills from the late Bill Gunn
STOP!
One of the most famous “lost” films of the late Twentieth Century was this never-released counterculture drama from the late Bill Gunn
DESERTERS
If you’re willing to put up with an abundance of low budget distraction you’ll find this to be one of the most interesting Canadian films of the 1980s
THE FALLS
An astonishing tapestry that’s comedic, alarming and poetic by turns, THE FALLS was the first feature by Peter Greenaway, who went for broke in a panoramic 194 minute epic
DONKEY SKIN
A fairy tale adaptation from 1970 that despite a creepy incest angle emerges as a justified classic
THE SLAVE TREE
A novel that’s interesting enough to make me wonder why it was published solely in limited edition hardcover format
AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL
In the category of fiction written by famous singers AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL, the first novel by Australia’s Nick Cave, ranks with classics of the form
ALEISTER CROWLEY: WANDERING THE WASTE
A graphic novel that attempts to encompass the entirety of Aleister Crowley’s life into a 108-page whole–and very nearly succeeds
BEAR
A highly literary “Canadian classic” about a woman schtupping a bear.
SPICY LADY
The term “product of its time” could have been coined to describe this novel
70s MONSTER MEMORIES
Unquestionably one of the standout books of 2016, and also, unfortunately, one of the scarcest
REFLECTIONS FROM A CINEMATIC CESSPOOL
A must-own for films nerds everywhere, this is a joint memoir by the notorious Kuchar brothers
IT DOESN’T SUCK: SHOWGIRLS
Here we have a wholehearted defense of SHOWGIRLS, director Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 hymn to stripper life
OVER MY DEAD BODY
This heavily illustrated overview of “The Sensational Age of The American Paperback” is hardly the definitive book on the subject
DIRECTOR’S CUT
This isn’t the greatest movie director memoir I’ve ever read, but it is a vital one
E-Books, Astrologers, Ocean Parks, Buried Treasure and SURVIVOR
The decline of print media is a subject that in the post-Coronavirus era has taken on a new relevance
1985: The Year in Bedlam
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point
On TIGER KING and Lucky Documentarians
A bonafide phenomenon, TIGER KING enjoyed a 25 day ranking as Netflix’s number one show, and the reasons for its popularity aren’t difficult to figure out
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance