TRUE INDIE
TRUE INDIE is filmmaker Don Coscarelli’s long-in-coming autobiography, and it’s a good one
The Taiwanese Inferno
Hell has always played well on screen. We’ve seen the inferno depicted in countless films over the years, from 1911’s Dante inspired L’INFERNO onwards
CALAMITY OF SNAKES
This Hong Kong monstrosity may be the ultimate killer snake movie
LOW-BUDGET HELL: MAKING UNDERGROUND MOVIES WITH JOHN WATERS
An interesting and, I think, vital take on John Waters and the underground film scene in which he thrived during the 1970s and early 80s
BLADE RUNNER: Novel, Treatment, and Movie(s)
Clarification: this article is not actually about BLADE RUNNER (1982). It refers, in fact, to a key line in its end credits sequence: “WITH THANKS TO WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND ALAN E. NOURSE FOR THE USE OF THE TITLE BLADE RUNNER.”
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
This is the infamously bad directorial debut of Stephen King
Kid Movies in the Summer of 1985
Looking back at the summer movie season of 1985, it becomes immediately apparent that kid movies were all the rage
CHRISTIANE F.
In the annals of “just say no” cinema this 1981 film is unquestionably one of the most powerful entries
THE DARK PLANET
Comic book artists rarely ever make for good filmmakers–see this experimental sci fi reverie co-directed by the renowned comic book writer/illustrator Richard Corben
Paul Schrader’s Films, Ranked
In celebration of the release of FIRST REFORMED, here is my ranking of Paul Schrader’s feature films up to 2018