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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC
“A gay boy’s acid trip,” and an impossible to forget musical fiasco!
PRIME CUT
Quirky 1970s depravity with Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman and Sissy Spacek
STARMAN
Sci fi romance from John Carpenter
NO BLADE OF GRASS
Societal breakdown, depicted by matinee idol turned sometime director Cornel Wilde
THE LITTLE MERMAID (1976)
Arguably the finest-ever live action filming of Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairy tale.
THE EYES OF THE CAT
When contemplating this horrific graphic novel I find that several terms invariably recur, namely bizarre, dreamlike, enigmatic and surreal
PREY
Among unmade John Carpenter screenplays PREY, a 98 page script hailing from the mid-1970s, is about average
MELTDOWN
John Carpenter has described this never-made script as “kind of HALLOWEEN in a nuclear power plant,” and that does indeed sum it up
THE INFLUENCE
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
THE FURY
Yet another example of a book that seems fated to be known more for the movie made from it than the text itself
MY FRIEND DAHMER
This graphic novel evocation of the teenage years of one of world’s most notorious serial killers is a profoundly disturbing account of real life psychosis
MRS. WAKEMAN VS. THE ANTICHRIST
A book that offers irrefutable proof that truth really is stranger than fiction
MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES
I’m not familiar with the zine MORBID CURIOSITY, consisting of confessions by real people, but after reading this varied, unpredictable, mind-expanding assortment of 41 articles culled from the mag, I fully understand its allure
MOONCHILD: THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER
I strongly doubt this book will be of interest to anyone who’s not already a Kenneth Anger fan, but for those of us who value Anger’s films it’s a must
MIRACLES OF LIFE
MIRACLES OF LIFE, the long-in-coming autobiography of the great J.G. Ballard, is grounded in an extremely sad reality: in 2006 Ballard, author of THE DROWNED WORLD, HIGH RISE and other brain-rattling masterworks, learned he was near death
On GHOST IN THE SHELL, Whitewashing and the Way Things Are
The big movie-related controversy right now? The alleged “whitewashing” of the currently-in-release high-profiler GHOST IN THE SHELL
No-Budget Sci-Fi Cinema: Ten Good Examples
Low budget and science fiction might seem mutually exclusive terms, but I believe the following ten films prove otherwise
TV Flashback: IJON TICHY, RAUMPILOT
It’s a fact that in certain situations a low budget can be a virtue
A Trump Era Reading List
As I’m sure most of you are aware, dystopian fiction is quite hot right now
Bill Paxton: 1955-2017
This morning, on February 26, 2017, it was announced that the great Bill Paxton had died