THE WANDERING EARTH
Here we have China’s attempt at Hollywood-styled blockbuster moviemaking: an unapologetically loud, unharmonious science fiction themed epic that prizes aggressive escapism above all else
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
ROBOPOCALYPSE
I didn’t think much of this inexplicably popular take on one of science fiction’s widely utilized clichés
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
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
This is the infamously bad directorial debut of Stephen King
MALEVIL
Believe me when I tell you that this 1970s relic is one of the absolute best after-the-bomb novels in existence
2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward
2017: Bedlam in Print
Assembling a best-books-of-the-year list is always a dicey proposition. Quite simply, nobody can be expected to track down and read every worthwhile book printed over the course of the previous year…
MILLER AND MAX
An absolute must for MAD MAX fans, a sort-of biography of Australian filmmaker George Miller and his signature creation
Cult Films In Search of A Cult
Having written about the subject for the past 20 years, I can discern what marks out cult films, and the following, I believe, are all prime candidates