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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
GOD IS MY WITNESS
For many US film buffs this 1992 action-romance-musical epic was our introduction to Bollywood–and what an introduction it was!
ESCAPE FROM L.A.
The nineties-centric sequel to ESCAPE FOM NEW YORK
MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
One of the most notorious Hollywood flops of the seventies, and indeed of all time
VROOOM VROOM VROOOOM
Very likely the most interesting post-1980 film made by the late Melvin Van Peebles
SKINAMARINK
A superbly evocative and unnerving horror-fest that’s also boring as shit
TOMORROW, WHEN I WAS YOUNG
A most peculiar fantasy about a woman who finds herself in a world that corresponds to our own but for the fact that life, death, past, present and future all co-exist
THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIS MUSE
The always-eclectic Eibonvale Press is, unsurprisingly, the source for this pleasingly eccentric horror novella
THE UNEASY
A surreal novella of a type that only England’s Eibonvale Press seems equipped to turn out
ARE SNAKES NECESSARY?
This irresistibly pulpy psycho-thriller is the first novel by film legend Brian De Palma (co-written with girlfriend Susan Lehman)
THE OK DOLL
The idea of a man in love with a doll is hardly a novel one, but in this screenplay England’s Peter Greenaway creates a uniquely witty and perverse take on man-doll love
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IF I DID IT and “The Killer”
Here we have the end product of one of the most bizarre sagas in publishing history
TEN NIGHTS OF DREAMS: From Text to Film
The 2007 Nikkatsu production TEN NIGHTS OF DREAMS (YUME JU-YA) is a monument in Japanese genre filmmaking.
Five Books Called Halloween
Five books called Halloween. That’s all.
THE WALKING DEAD, Censorship and the State of Horror Media
Let’s face it: horror media has lost its mojo… The genre can no longer be said to retain the subversive edge that I’d argue is vital to its survival. This past week, however, offered a ray of hope.
TV Flashback: LES ROIS MAUDITS
LES ROIS MAUDITS is a six episode French miniseries adapted from six of the seven novels that make up Maurice Druon’s bestselling ACCURSED KINGS series (which George R.R. Martin has called “the original GAME OF THRONES.”)