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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

Looking back over 1993, I’ve found it was quite an auspicious year for movies

This is the widely hailed worst novel ever written by Stephen King, and it is indeed pretty lousy

Looking back at the summer movie season of 1985, it becomes immediately apparent that kid movies were all the rage

In the category of Raymond Roussel/H.P. Lovecraft/Clark Ashton Smith inspired oddities this quasi-graphic novel definitely stands out

What follows is the latest installment of the Year in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s best and worst movies, according to yours-truly

An amalgamation of educational drama and grade-Z science fiction that was the first ever non-documentary film made expressly for IMAX

This ambitious French science fiction drama from 1972 can be viewed as the little-known forerunner of CLOSE ENOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

2017’s gross-out movie of note, a freeform exercise in sub-Cronenbergian excess with a satiric thrust and overall fixation on bodily secretion

The “Most Compelling Novel of the Unknown Ever Written?” I’m not sure about that…