Robert Towne: 1934-2024
Another important showbiz death? I’m afraid so…
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR vs. EO
Two donkey-headlined films, one from 1966 and one from 2022, one an enduring classic and the other not quite
2020 in Review: Books Worth Reading
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
This, the premiere work of prose fiction by Quentin Tarantino, is in many respects just like his films
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
CUT TO THE CHASE
A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want
THE BIG GOODBYE: CHINATOWN AND THE LAST YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD
This book is ostensibly about the making of CHINATOWN (1974), but its true concerns are Hollywood in the early 1970s and one of that milieu’s most contentious figures: one Roman Polanski
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE STORY OF NASTASSJA AND KLAUS KINSKI
With this self-published book author W.A. Harbinson has hit upon a topic of unquestioned dramatic intensity: the story of actor Klaus Kinski and his daughter Nastassja
2019: The Year in Bedlam
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
Fifty Years of Mansonsploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family