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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
HUNTING HOUSEWIVES
Rich housefrows hunted MOST DANGEROUS GAME style through the Canadian wilderness—yes, it’s every bit as stupid as it sounds
CHICAGO JOE AND THE SHOWGIRL
The second feature by the UK’s Bernard Rose, a hard-hitting true crime drama that’s better than you’ve heard
AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE
A feature length documentary overview of exploitation filmmaking, and a strong one
ANGEL DUST
A very quirky, stylized serial killer drama from Japan’s Sogo Ishii
AUTONOMOUS
Something new: a digitally lensed “Micro Horror” series about an evil self-driving car
BOMBYX
Ultra-paranoid psychological horror from Richard Christian—or R.C.—Matheson and Mick Garris
BLACK COCKTAIL
A typically odd and unpredictable contemporary fantasy by the inimitable Jonathan Carroll, a 76-page novella about all sorts of things
EPOCH: A POETIC PSY-PHI SAGA
This “Poetic Psy-Phi Saga” does the famed epic science fiction poem ANIARA one better, offering an even more epic example of SF poetry
THE INVERTED WORLD
One of the SF field’s most provocative and enduring concepts is contained in THE INVERTED WORLD by the late Christopher Priest
CLUE
A novelization by Michael McDowell that gives CLUE (1985) far more class than it deserves
HANNS HEINZ EWERS: THE STORY OF HIS DEVELOPMENT
Here Joe E. Bandel, who specializes in translating early 20th century European literature, turned his attention to a little-known German language biography of Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943)
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
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