NAKED TANGO
An ambitious 1990 production you probably didn’t see
FAMINE ’33
A chronicle of the Holodomor, or Artificial Famine, that afflicted Ukraine in 1932-33, engineered by Stalin to (it’s been claimed) crush Ukrainian resistance to Soviet rule
A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
A black comedy whose effectiveness pivots on an unexpected but quite canny casting choice: Michael Caine, playing a New York businessman using highly unorthodox practices to get ahead
WHALE MUSIC
The late John Candy was a galvanizing force behind this film, which was released in 1994 (the year of Candy’s demise)
Welcome Home to the Faustian Penitentiary, Away from Emma Mae and the Street Wars
About the late blaxploitaiton auteur Jamaa Fanaka, who combined urban grit and sheer weirdness
HITS, FLOPS, AND OTHER ILLUSIONS
In which a high-profile film director and TV producer recounts his “Fortysomething Years in Hollywood”
COLOR OF NIGHT
I wish I could report that COLOR OF NIGHT, the final film directed by filmmaker extraordinaire Richard Rush, was a superior example of the erotic thriller format, but I’m afraid that’s not the cas
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
Another example of the “__ from Hell” cycle that proliferated in early nineties Hollywood
SQUAREWORLD
One of the most unnerving, and least compromising, horror films to emerge from the nineties
NAKED THEATER AND UNCENSORED HORROR
The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing