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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE HITCHER (1986)
A true slasher classic from the eighties
JOHNNY MNEMONIC
A film that was forecast to be a revolutionary melding of cyberpunk and mainstream sensibilities, but is best viewed nowadays as a dry run for THE MATRIX
A KARATE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
A film whose “qualities” are summed up by its title
A VERY NUTTY CHRISTMAS
One of the weirder Lifetime movies I’ve seen, offering a cockeyed inversion of THE NUTCRACKER and a message that fully lives up to the “nutty” designation: that true holiday cheer is possible only through the intercession of a doll in human form
MERRY CHRISTMAS
A Bollywood Christmas movie with everything you’d expect
BURNT OFFERINGS
Potent but overrated haunted house scares from the 1970s
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES
A deliberately overwrought Frenchified attempt at American noir fiction, with some mighty saucy passages
THE LONG WALK
This was the second, and most interesting, of several Stephen King novels published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym
THE WILDS
So-so wilderness horror from the eighties
CHILDREN OF THE BLACK SABBATH
Literary horror at its best!
THE FUTURE WAS NOW: MADMEN, MAVERICKS, AND THE EPIC SCI-FI SUMMER OF 1982
About mainstream science fiction cinema in the summer of 1982, a pivotal time for those of us who lived through it
FEVER YEAR: THE KILLER FLU OF 1918
A powerful graphic novel depiction of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918-19
HANNS HEINZ EWERS: THE STORY OF HIS DEVELOPMENT
Here Joe E. Bandel, who specializes in translating early 20th century European literature, turned his attention to a little-known German language biography of Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943)
WITH LOVE, MOMMIE DEAREST: THE MAKING OF AN UNINTENTIONAL CAMP CLASSIC
All about the making of MOMMIE DEAREST (1981)
KUBRICK: AN ODYSSEY
This book has been proclaimed the definitive biography of the great Stanley Kubrick, and for once the hype is correct
PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE vs. MAN OF FLOWERS
Two classsic films, one of which just turned 40 and the other 42, that have more in common than you might think
R.I.P. Kurodahan Press
Too bad
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
Confessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer
Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd
George Armitage: 1942-2025
On February 15, 2025, one of America’s most individual, and least known, filmmakers left us