DRAG
An admitted calling card project that received an enthusiastic blurb from Stephen King, who proclaimed 1993’s DRAG “the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years.”
JOHN McTIERNAN: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ACTION MOVIE ICON
Few directors have had a more dramatic career trajectory than John McTiernan
THE SPIRIT GALLERY
A 1995 feature that was apparently conceived as “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY in reverse,” which fails to convey the sheer bizarrie of this sustained hallucination of a movie
Robert Forster: 1941-2019
2019 is shaping up as, among other things, a year in which quite a few vital character actors breathed their last breath
Sid Haig: 1939-2019
Oftentimes it can be difficult to grasp just how much a skilled supporting player adds to the movies s/he graces—until, that is, the player in question is no longer with us
A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1997)
The one and only animated version of the Hong Kong fantasy-romance classic A CHINESE GHOST STORY, scripted, produced and voiced (in part) by the original film’s producer Tsui Hark
THE KING OF PACOIMA
This e-text is essentially a novelization of RADIO FLYER (1992) that allows us to see how the film was initially conceived
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990
BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. HOW 1999 BLEW UP THE BIG SCREEN
Yes, that title is serious: author Brian Raftery really believes 1999 was the “best” movie year ever
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste