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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ALIEN ON STAGE
A 2020 documentary about a dramatic adaptation of ALIEN put on by a consortium of UK bus drivers
EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE
A film whose reception has then and now centered entirely on the nudity displayed by its star Alyssa Milano
TRIP TO MOON
In acknowledgment of the India’s moon landing, here’s a look back at a 1967 Indian made dramatization of just what the title promises
DEDICATED TO THE AEGEAN SEA
The one and only Japanese made, Italian financed, Greece set erotic drama
TWISTED ISSUES
The debut feature of SOV auteur Charles Pinion was this self-proclaimed “Psycho-Punk Splatter Comedy”
THE COMING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A.
Of the many black uprising fantasies that appeared in the late 1960s and early 70s this is the most expansive and outrageous of the lot
PLAN B
A posthumously published novel by the late Chester Himes that like most posthumously published novels has a number of problems
HOW MANY TIMES?
This one seems daunting, I will admit: a collection of unabashedly experimental tales based on mathematical formulae
INSIDE BLACK HOLLYWOOD
The WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART of the Blaxploitation film cycle, a thinly fictionalized expose of the filming of THE MACK (1973)
THE AGE OF DECAYED FUTURITY
A collection that proclaims itself “the best of” horror story maestro Mark Samuels
POLANSKI
The fifth major biography of world-renowned filmmaker Roman Polanski, and, I feel, the best
PLATES OF MEMORY
This beautifully designed art book is as powerful a testimonial to the work of Poland’s Marian Kolodziej (1921-2009), a Holocaust survivor and renowned stage designer, as anyone could possibly desire
BEYOND HORROR HOLOCAUST: A DEEPER SHADE OF RED
The final book by one of my favorite horror movie commentators
BATMAN: THE COMPLETE HISTORY
This 1999 publication is obviously a bit out of date, but is otherwise an admirably exhaustive recounting of the exploits of the Caped Crusader, a.k.a. Batman
STANLEY KUBRICK AND ME
For Stanley Kubrick buffs this memoir, written by Kubrick’s longtime personal assistant, can be classified as one of the few truly essential print resources on the great man
TV Flashback: HARLAN ELLISON’S WATCHING
HARLAN ELLISON’S WATCHING was initially broadcast as part of the Sci-Fi Channel’s SCI-FI BUZZ series during the years 1993 to ‘96
The Good and the Bad of WILD PALMS
A 1993 miniseries that was never as weird or revolutionary as the “psychedelic dossier filled with borrowed moonlight from a floating world” it purported to be
Thoughts on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
By now TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the Showtime shepherded follow-up to 1990-91’s TWIN PEAKS, has been analyzed from every conceivable standpoint
TOBE HOOPER: 1943-2017
Here we bid farewell to the brilliant, and frustratingly erratic, Tobe Hooper
TV Flashback: THE NECESSARY MINUTE OF MONSIEUR CYCLOPEDE
Here we have what may well be the oddest TV show of all time: THE NECESSARY MINUTE OF MONSIEUR CYCLOPEDE