STARSHIP TROOPERS
A would-be blockbuster from 1998 that saw director Paul Verhoeven and much of the crew of ROBOCOP (1987) trying to recapture the elusive magic of that classic
ALIEN (1989)
No, not that ALIEN, but, rather, a Pakistani joyride from 1989 that has the distinction of being that country’s first special effects blockbuster
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
THE DIRECTOR SHOULD’VE SHOT YOU
A book about movie novelizations–I can’t see how it could possibly NOT be a must-read
LASERBLAST: The Comic
Fact: the no-budget Charles Band movie LASERBLAST (1978) sucks. This comic book adaptation, however, is somewhat interesting
THE DAY THE GODS DIED
A third party companion-piece to CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, and a dispatch from an era in which allegedly true revelations of incredible events were popular
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
Weird and Wonderful Christmas Cinema from Around the World
A much-needed addendum to a previous essay, with an overview of weird holiday-themed films emerging from around the world
BILLY MAJESTIC’S HUMPTY DUMPTY
B-movie delirium and pictorial audacity unite in this altogether unique concoction
THE VAST OF NIGHT
A stylish but self-indulgent alien invasion thriller set in the late 1950s