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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
BIOTHERAPY
Japanese grue from 1986. See CYCLOPS instead.
THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY
The black plague, time travel and religious mania–need I say more?
A STORY OF THE FOREST: MAVKA
This 1981 folklore based Ukrainian film can be called the spiritual successor to Sergei Paradjanov’s classic SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS
A PRAYER FOR HETMAN MAZEPA
With the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine exploding, I say it’s an opportune time to revisit this 2002 feature, which offers a most unorthodox treatment of the skirmish
THE LAWNMOWER MAN
A 1992 movie that, hard though it might seem to believe thirty years later, once seemed pretty cool
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HITLER
Here was have what is probably the most controversial work in a career that has seen no shortage on controversy
THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN
One of the most interesting translations to appear in some time, this is the first-ever English version of a short novel that was originally published in Italian back in 1977
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP evinces all the qualities that defines Angela Carter’s fiction, namely a fair amount—though not nearly enough in this case—of perverse invention
LITTLE HEAVEN
Here Nick Cutter, of the well-received horror thrillers THE TROOP and THE DEEP, tries his hand at a genre epic of the type popularized by Stephen King and Robert McCammon, with mixed results
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Quite popular among the literati and the winner of at least one prestigious award, it’s a relentlessly contemplative and intellectual treatment of material that will seem quite familiar to most horror fans
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The Horror Films of Janusz Majewski
Janusz Majewski is one of Poland’s most durable and prolific filmmakers
The Movies of 1984
1984 was an odd yet pivotal time
On Writing, Monster Dogs, Chocolate Eggs, a Change of Face and a Slice of Life!
ON WRITING by STEPHEN KING was initially published back in 2000.
Comic-Con 2014
Seen/heard at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con…
In Defense of Sequels
I’m sure you’ve heard the news: SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the nine-years-after-the-fact sequel to 2005’s SIN CITY, opened last Friday…and tanked big time.