HUMANIMALITY
A self-proclaimed “hybrid monster of a book that interrogates humanity’s troubled relationship with its animality, & so its relation to animals, the earth, and ultimately the cosmos”
CHERRY 2000
Above-average Maxploitation madness from 1986
A VIEWING GUIDE TO THE PANDEMIC: DEPICTIONS OF PLAGUE AND PANDEMIC ON FILM AND TV
A nifty book-length study (the first, if I’m not mistaken) of disease/pandemic movies
HUMAN ANIMALS
A little-known Spanish made post-apocalyptic drama, of primary interest due to its complete lack of dialogue
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025)
This, the latest cinematic iteration of H.G. Wells’ WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898), has already attained legendary status—and not because it’s good
THE JUDAS PROJECT
Although mostly forgotten these days, THE JUDAS PROJECT, which asked “What if Jesus Christ came for the first time in 1993?,” was very likely the most ambitious evangelical film of the 1990s
THE LAST SPARK OF HOPE
Apocalyptic sci-fi that looks good despite being a short film conflated to feature length
2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry
NIGHT OF THE COMET
“Valley girls at the end of the world” was the pitch by writer-director Thom Eberhardt for this low budgeter from 1984
BEWARE US FLOWERS OF THE ANNIHILATOR
The latest and most comprehensive collection of stories by Canada’s master of elegantly drafted bizarrie Alexander Zelenyj