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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
FEELS LIKE HOME
A stunningly crafted Hungarian thriller involving abduction, family bonds and power moves
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Here’s a 1990s blockbuster that without question has not dated well
RESURRECTION
Buddhist-infused dream-horror from China
HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST
A 27 minute film directed by Charlie Kaufman that’s every bit as quirky and idiosyncratic as you might expect
BACKTRACK
A 1989 directorial effort by the late Dennis Hopper that isn’t bad
FRANKENSTEIN IN LOVE
The most notorious of Clive Barker’s pre-BOOKS OF BLOOD plays
WHITE SPAWN
A novella-length take on the maestro’s “Shadow Over Innsmouth,” WHITE SPAWN offers most everything one could want in a neo-Lovecraftian account
NAKED IN HER COFFIN
Necrophilia, voodoo and zombies in a smut novel that, I’m afraid, isn’t very good at all
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
The basis for BLADE RUNNER (1982), and one of Dick’s most famous novels
ORF
In which late 1960s America was given a most fitting epitaph by the late upscale smut outfit Essex House and its top author David Meltzer
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
ECCO: THE STORY OF A FAKE MAN ON 42ND STREET
This is actually the final issue of the initial iteration of SLEAZOID EXPRESS, which took the form of a nonfiction novella by that publication’s editors Bill Landis and Jimmy McDonough
QUENTIN TARANTINO: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
A graphic novel biography of Quentin Tarantino that is, as the front cover makes clear, “Unofficial and Unauthorized”
UWE BOLL RAW
Exactly what you’d expect from a filmmaker who’s often called the modern day Ed Wood: grammatically suspect, often uproarious and downright pissy
Nepo Babies Circa 2025
Yes, the spread of Hollywood nepotism is a glaring issue, but it’s one that, for the moment at least, does appear to be improving
Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
Still More Thoughts on Movie Titles
THUNDERBOLTS, THE NEW AVENGERS and modern movie titles: the news isn’t good
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