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2023: The Year in Bedlam

The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases

Forgotten, but worthwhile, horrors from 1942

The debut novel of Kem Nunn, and the premiere example of “surf noir”

The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview

One of the most unlikely cult classics of our time: a failed TV pilot reconfigured as a 2001 feature film

This, if you ask me, is the most interesting film made by the underground auteur Antero Alli

In this Year in Bedlam overview, highlighting 30 lesser-known and/or underappreciated film releases, I’ll be exploring 1980

Any post-1990 work claiming to “revitalize the hard-boiled tradition” can be dismissed, as, quite simply, SHELLA is the state of the art in neo-noir

This, unfortunately, is the closest thing that exists to a biography of the late Charles Willeford

Here we have what I’d argue is the sole major benefit of the film ELLE: the long-delayed English translation of the novel that inspired it