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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ZEIRAM
An inexplicably popular example of Japanese Tokusatsu (live action special effects based cinema) that I say is mid
RETURN TO BABYLON
The world’s most famous “Haunted Film,” with ghosts alleged to have been directly involved in its production
THE WORLD OF DARKNESS
An example of a failed 1970s TV pilot that went on to become a cause celebre among horror fans
LOOKER
1981 SF from writer/director Michael Crichton that deserves points for its prophetic concepts—but that’s ALL it deserves points for
THE BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD
A 1973 grindhouse product, of note primarily because it was directed by future arthouse auteur Alan Rudolph
THE SOULSUCKER
A long out-of-print paperback, involving blood drinking alien spiders, that really isn’t very good at all
THE WILD
Whitley Strieber once called this his “breakthrough” novel and then decided it wasn’t all that; in truth it falls somewhnere in between those poles
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.
WHO KNEW
A gossipy memoir by one of the main architects of the movie apocalypse that occurred in the late 1970s and early 80s
THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES
The first major biography of the late Ray Bradbury and, I’m pleased to report, a good one
ART! TRASH! TERROR! ADVENTURES IN STRANGE CINEMA
Quite simply, if you’re a horror fan this book, which collects several decades’ worth of reviews of “movies that refuse to behave,” is a must read
THE KILLING OF THE UNICORN: DOROTHY STRATTEN 1960-1980
A grief-fueled remembrance of the late Dorothy Stratten by “the director who loved her.”
IMAGES
A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch
Fast Times with the Uncool
On Cameron Crowe’s FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (the book) and THE UNCOOL
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Antifa and Brett Easton Ellis
As of October 2025, the major movie-related controversy is over Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Drew Struzan: 1947-2025
Celebrating the work of America’s most iconic movie poster artist
TV Flashback: FANTASTIC TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
An Edgar Allan Poe inspired TV anthology; at least one segment is quite good.
Robert Redford: 1936-2025
RIP