2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
Tatsuya Nakadai: 1932-2025
Who is the greatest actor you’ve (probably) never heard of? I’d nominate the recently deceased Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the major players in classic Japanese cinema
TV Flashback: FANTASTIC TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
An Edgar Allan Poe inspired TV anthology; at least one segment is quite good.
COBB
A failed, but quite interesting, biopic on the late baseball star, and trigger-happy nut, Ty Cobb
THE NIHILESTHETE
An altogether unique novel that fascinates and annoys in equal measure
SELF DRIVER
A nifty Canadian low budgeter from 2024 that functions as both a cunning psychological thriller and an eccentric horror fest
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry
COMBAT SHOCK (Novelization)
A unique entry in Severin’s grindhouse novelization line: a 40-years-after-the-fact novelization of Buddy Giovinazzo’s notorious 1984 no-budgeter COMBAT SHOCK, written by the filmmaker himself
THE SPIDER WILL KILL YOU
Writer-director David Schmoeller had an obsession with mannequins, showcased in this 30-minute University of Texas thesis film