2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
ACT OF VIOLENCE IN A YOUNG JOURNALIST
This beyond-obscure 1988 feature, one of the first to receive a straight-to-video release in its native Uruguay, was given new prominence by the semi-documentary STRAIGHT TO VHS
THE WAR GAME
A profoundly shattering, staunchly reality-based look at the effects of a possible nuclear war on Great Britain
TOPOR AND ME
The only film ever directed by the Dutch actress/artist Sylvia Kristel, and a skilled enough piece of work to make one regret that she didn’t helm anything else
2021: The Year in Bedlam
The latest edition of my Year in Bedlam overview of the movie releases of the previous twelve months
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
An exhaustive documentary that purports to explore the roots and manifestations of “Folk Horror” in film
The DUNEiverse and Its Discontents
DUNE: the novels, films and everything else
VAMPIRA AND ME
Filmmaker R.H. Greene didn’t make things easy on himself when crafting this film, a documentary about Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira