Dark Comedy | The Bedlam Files

AMIGO

A two-hander featuring a real-life Spanish comic team going slowly bonkers

A middling product of the gross-out teen movie explosion of the early 1980s

2020 was a hell of a year

Exotic Dancers and the devil: a curiously appropriate pairing, especially in Europe

A most unlikely offering from writer-director Charlie Kaufman

If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap

Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984

For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning

Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers

Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply