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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
SOLARIS (1972)
The third feature by Andrei Tarkovsky and his first foray into science fiction, SOLARIS is the most famous such film to emerge from Russia
NARCO SATANICO
Mexi-madness containing all the things one might expect from a south-of-the-border trash fest, starting with the Big Three: sex, nudity and gore
POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN
This profoundly bizarre 12 minute short was made back in 1983, yet has become quite popular online (with good reason!)
VIOLATED ANGELS
A ground-breakingly gruesome example of avant-garde “pinku” (adults only) cinema
MADNESS (1969)
The concept of an insane asylum as a metaphor for modern civilization didn’t originate with this Estonian import, but the film did provide this particular movie model with a quintessentially Eastern European highlight
ANCIENT OF DAYS
An “Anthropological SF Masterpiece”? Not quite, but a damn good novel nonetheless
JOYRIDE
The word for this splatterific book is fun—dumb fun, yes, but fun, nonetheless
SUPERGIRL
This is about what you would expect quality-wise from a novelization of what was (until the 1987 release of SUPERMAN 4: THE QUEST FOR PEACE) the worst of the SUPERMAN movies
SEVEN COFFINS FOR THE KILLER
The final novel by the late James Williamson, writing as James Havoc, who offers up a full blast of splatterific nastiness in a wild west milieu
DREAMS OF THE RAREBIT FIEND
The legendary early-1900s comic strip by Windsor McCay, which I found authentically dreamlike
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
JOSH HARTNETT DEFINITELY WANTS TO DO THIS…TRUE STORIES FROM A LIFE IN THE SCREEN TRADE
A resolutely witty and enjoyable recounting of a couple years in the life of the Australian film director Bruce Beresford
THE DISASTER ARTIST: MY LIFE INSIDE THE ROOM, THE GREATEST BAD MOVIE EVER MADE
A hilarious and endearing account of the making of “The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” and the friendship that forged it.
RAIDERS! — THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE
The stranger-then-fiction story of the making of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
BEER, BLOOD AND ASHES
In remembrance of actor Michael Madsen, who died on July 3, 2025, here’s a look at his first book of poetry
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
Udo Kier: 1944-2025
Celebrating an actor who “never learned to act” and functioned equally well in camp and serious drama
Tatsuya Nakadai: 1932-2025
Who is the greatest actor you’ve (probably) never heard of? I’d nominate the recently deceased Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the major players in classic Japanese cinema