1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
Funnybook Flashback: FROM BEYONDE, DOGHEAD and THE BIOLOGIC SHOW
It’s time for another trip back in time to the 1990s, when horror anthologies and David lynch-inspired weirdness were mainstays of the comic book universe—for a time, at least
THE DARK PLANET
Comic book artists rarely ever make for good filmmakers–see this experimental sci fi reverie co-directed by the renowned comic book writer/illustrator Richard Corben
THE RED SNAKE
This was the first entry in DH Publishing’s “Hino Horror” collection of English language mangas by Japan’s Hideshi Hino
MIND GAME
An extremely well-regarded anime feature that premiered back in 2004 yet didn’t receive US distribution until fourteen years later
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…
The Good and the Bad of WILD PALMS
A 1993 miniseries that was never as weird or revolutionary as the “psychedelic dossier filled with borrowed moonlight from a floating world” it purported to be
Thoughts on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
By now TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the Showtime shepherded follow-up to 1990-91’s TWIN PEAKS, has been analyzed from every conceivable standpoint
THE ARCHITECT OF RUINS
A mind-boggler par excellence, courtesy of Dedalus, who can always be counted on to dig up fascinating Euro-obscurities
PIEGE
A product of the late 1960s French avant-garde, marked by decadence, surrealism and a loose reworking of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME