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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ROAD GAMES
A standout Ozploitation flick from 1981, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis in a stealthy and suspenseful truckbound varient on REAR WINDOW
THE CORPSE GRINDERS
A vintage splatterthon whose appeal I don’t get
THE BRIDE!
I wanted to like this mega-flop, but have to admit there’s a reason for its non-success
THIS MAN MUST DIE
One of the finest-ever films directed by the late Claude Chabrol, a most unique and distinct revenge thriller
SLEEPWALKERS
The first wholly original screenplay written by Stephen King and, frankly, a pretty lousy movie
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 BRIDGE
One of the bleakest, nastiest, most despairing dystopian novels of the 1970s, written, ironically enough, by a devout Christian
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
DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES: MIRAMAX, SUNDANCE, AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT FILM
Peter Biskind’s riotously compelling chronicle of the American independent film revolution of the 1990s
LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE: THE LIFE OF JOHN CANDY
A book about the life (and death) of everybody’s favorite Canadian funnyman John Candy
A VIEWING GUIDE TO THE PANDEMIC: DEPICTIONS OF PLAGUE AND PANDEMIC ON FILM AND TV
A nifty book-length study (the first, if I’m not mistaken) of disease/pandemic movies
On THE STATE OF THINGS, STRANGER THAN PARADISE and THE TERRITORY
In answer to the query “What do Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Roger Corman, Raul Ruiz, Jon Jost, the district of Sintra and the city of Lisbon have in common?”
2025: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2025, ranked by moi
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