EXOTICA
The foremost film ever made by Canada’s Atom Egoyan, an elliptical, provocative and altogether fascinating 1994 drama
BAD BIOLOGY
A supremely immature “Godawful Love Story” from Frank Henenlotter
More Illustrated Oddments
Here we have a new batch of Illustrated Oddments, books that deserve some ink on this site, even if I can’t justify writing full reviews.
PSYCHEDELIC SEX
What a great idea: a profusely illustrated guide to pornography of the psychedelic era, put out by the prestige outfit Taschen!
STAR
A dark and idiosyncratic look at the dream factory, drafted in a highly dense and poetic style (“Explosively Hilarious” it isn’t)
THE END OF ALICE
The fascination with deviance that suffused 1990s fiction gave us first person studies of serial killing (AMERICAN PSYCHO), homicidal foot fetishism (FOOTSUCKER) and, with THE END OF ALICE, pedophilia.
RAW MEAT
An ambitious exercise in science fiction themed smut fiction, and, I’m afraid, not a very successful one
TOPOR AND ME
The only film ever directed by the Dutch actress/artist Sylvia Kristel, and a skilled enough piece of work to make one regret that she didn’t helm anything else
MAGIC MIRROR
A worthy, if frustratingly little known, addition to the underground comics scene
I WAS FLESH GORDON
FLESH GORDON is a film whose behind-the-scenes drama was arguably more compelling than what ended up onscreen, as proven by this book