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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
F/X 2
Not without interest, as indicated by the fact that future Hollywood heavyweight Bill Condon was the screenwriter, and the Australian thriller specialist Richard Franklin the director
SOMETHING WILD
In tallying the output of the late Jonathan Demme, I find that the criminally underrated SOMETHING WILD ranks near the top
MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS
One of the great nunsploitation epics, a stylish, artistic and deeply unnerving depiction of faith and evil
ALIENS
‘Nuff said!
ACT OF VIOLENCE IN A YOUNG JOURNALIST
This beyond-obscure 1988 feature, one of the first to receive a straight-to-video release in its native Uruguay, was given new prominence by the semi-documentary STRAIGHT TO VHS
RESURRECTION DREAMS
Not a very good book, I’m afraid, although RESURRECTION DREAMS is an enjoyable enough goof
HAPPINESS BASTARD
The only published novel by the famous beat poet Kirby Doyle, HAPPINESS BASTARD was composed on a continuous teletype scroll of paper in 1959-60
THE SECOND HALF OF THE DOUBLE FEATURE
This posthumous collection of short fiction and essays by the late Charles Willeford is far from the great man’s best work
NIGHTS WITH SASQUATCH
One of the more curious products of the horror boom, NIGHTS WITH SASQUATCH is a paperback original from 1977
THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER
A reasonably enjoyable flashback to the earliest days of TWIN PEAKS mania, courtesy of the 22 year old Jennifer Lynch
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“The Fantasy Five-Foot Bookshelf” Pro and Con
The eight page “Fantasy Five-Foot Bookshelf” appeared in the June and August 1983 issues of THE TWILIGHT ZONE magazine.
The Apocalypse Quartet of Konstantin Lopushansky
Russia’s Konstantin Lopushansky is one of the greatest filmmakers you’ve never heard of
On CUTTING MOMENTS
1996’s “Cutting Moments” is, quite simply, one of the most powerful short films of any sort to emerge in the last 30 years
On THE TIN DRUM
THE TIN DRUM (DIE BLECHTROMMEL) by Gunter Grass has been widely acclaimed as the greatest German novel since the end of WWII
Who’s Afraid of Chris Elliott?
What follows is perhaps the most controversial stance I’ve ever taken