Fifty Years of Mansonsploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990
1994: The Year in Bedlam
1994 was the year of PULP FICTION and HOOP DREAMS; here I’ll be concentrating here on thirty lesser-known films, which provide a plethora of genre-spanning quality cinema!
TRUE INDIE
TRUE INDIE is filmmaker Don Coscarelli’s long-in-coming autobiography, and it’s a good one
BRAVE
In recent years Rose McGowan has gone from being a semi-famous actress, in films like THE DOOM GENERATION, JAWBREAKER and GRINDHOUSE, to a passionate feminist crusader
CITY UNPLUGGED
A “Spaghetti Eastern,” this darkly comedic noir drama from 1993 was Estonia’s answer to RESERVOIR DOGS
The Spawn of EL MARIACHI
In the past decade there was one film above all others that inspired filmmakers in and out of the horror genre, and it isn’t even a horror movie.
The October 2010 LA Weekend of Horrors II
Yes, there was a second Los Angeles 2010 Weekend of Horrors, and I was there.
The New Beverly Cinema: A Personal History
The New Beverly Cinema is a Los Angeles repertory theater that in recent years has attained legendary status, in large part because of its current owner, the one and only Quentin Tarantino, and its staunch commitment to 35mm exhibition
BLOOD SIMPLE
A quintessential American independent film from the eighties, and still a one-of-a-kind masterpiece