LOOKER
1981 SF from writer/director Michael Crichton that deserves points for its prophetic concepts—but that’s ALL it deserves points for
ROAD GAMES
A standout Ozploitation flick from 1981, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis in a stealthy and suspenseful truckbound varient on REAR WINDOW
SUPERGIRL
This is about what you would expect quality-wise from a novelization of what was (until the 1987 release of SUPERMAN 4: THE QUEST FOR PEACE) the worst of the SUPERMAN movies
MY SCIENCE PROJECT
A 1985 Disney product that partook, clumsily, of the year’s popular teens-and-SF movie model
INVASION U.S.A.
Quite simply the ultimate Chuck Norris movie
CANNIBAL WORLDS
A knowledgeable and wide-ranging tome that more than delivers on its promise of being the most comprehensive tome on Italian cannibal cinema of the 1970s and 80s
Obfuscation and Misunderstanding in the Film Adaptations of Philip K. Dick
About the film adaptations of Philip K. Dick, arguably the least understood SF writer of our time
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 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.
HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL
This 700-plus page memoir by a Hollywood insider was to the aughts what Julia Phillips’ notorious YOU’LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN (1991) was to the previous decade