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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
TWO
A Spanish made Netflixer about a man and a woman who awaken in a strange room with their stomachs stitched together
KIRK CAMERON’S SAVING CHRISTMAS
It takes some doing to make a film that ranks with bad Christmas movie classics like SANTA CLAUS, but this 2014 production handily accomplishes that feat
SANTA’S CHRISTMAS ELF (NAMED CALVIN)
I’d long believed SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY was the absolute cheapest Christmas movie in existence. Turns out I was wrong, as SANTA’S CHRISTMAS ELF (NAMED CALVIN) is even cheaper
FUN IN BALLOONLAND
There simply aren’t enough bad things to say about this holiday atrocity from 1965
BENEDETTA
A prestige film that is, conversely, every bit as trashy and exploitive as anyone could desire
RAIN
An unabashed throwback to the type of high-class, speculatively-charged porn lit that flourished in the late 1960s and early 70s
FADE-OUT
The “Most Compelling Novel of the Unknown Ever Written?” I’m not sure about that…
ELLE
Here we have what I’d argue is the sole major benefit of the film ELLE: the long-delayed English translation of the novel that inspired it
THE TIGHTER IT GETS
Robert Moore was a prolific contributor to the famed smut book outfit Olympia Press and its offshoot Ophelia, under whose imprint the present book appeared
AELITA
It’s a fact that science fiction dates faster and more dramatically than any other genre, especially when it hails from early-1920s Russia, as is the case with AELITA by Alexei Tolstoy
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Killing Kids
Back in 2007 I came across a provocative posting on a popular online message board
The Cleveland Kidnapping: Two Memoirs
Unless you’ve been away from Earth the past two years you’re probably aware of the Cleveland Kidnapping case that gripped America in May of 2013
The Modern Horror Movie: A Diagnosis
According to one prominent online critic, the modern horror movie is “down for the count.”
The H Word
Nobody, it seems, wants to be associated with the “Horror” label.
TV Flashback: NEVERWHERE
NEVERWHERE was a BBC miniseries, originally broadcast in the Fall of ‘96