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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!
Regarding TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!, two names come immediately to mind: Pedro Almodovar, who wrote and directed the film, and Harvey Weinstein, who shepherded its May 1990 US release
THE DELEGATION
One of the most ambitious TV movies of the 1970s, a West German-French-Italian coproduction, filmed in French and English, that explored the then-trendy topic of UFOs
THE THING EXPANDED
A five hour-plus documentary on John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) that can viewed as the definitive resource on that classic film.
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
BRINGING IN THE CREEPS
Pop culture infused horror by an author who can be said to have cornered this particular field
MOUNT ANALOGUE
A “Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing” that inspired the Alejandro Jodorowsky feature THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)
THE POLLUTERS
A product of the upscale smut outfit Brandon House that reads like a watered-down template for Charles Platt’s THE GAS
THE PRESENCE
An ambitious monster-fest with all the trimmings: gore, slime, muted political commentary and Lovecraftian overtones, with the overall emphasis on grade-B fun
FANTASTIC ORGY
An anthology from early 1920s Germany, of note for its title story, about a pre-METROPOLIS robot woman
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
SALUTING THE BLOOD OF HEROES: BEHIND THE APOCALYPTIC FILM
The Second book by author Danny Stewart, who’s quickly establishing himself as one of the preeminent chroniclers of underappreciated science fiction cinema from the eighties and nineties
OMNI’S SCREEN FLIGHTS/SCREEN FANTASIES
For years this was the best book about science fiction onscreen, a title it lost only because it’s now 40 years old
PURE: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS OF MARILYN CHAMBERS
The late Marilyn Chambers, was one of the most noteworthy performers to emerge from 1970s porn cinema, and this book provides a worthy epitaph
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