THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE
This 1969 science fiction mindbender hails from Denmark, and remains one of the better films of its type
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
The Rutger Hauer saga was a curious one
THE BOX FROM JAPAN
This is it: the magnum opus of the late Harry Stephen Keeler, the world’s most bizarre mystery novelist
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI
One of the best movie novelizations I’ve ever read, complimenting and enhancing its source film considerably while standing as a uniquely spirited and invigorating piece of work in its own right
DIONYSUS: THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT
This book outlines a little remarked-upon but quite pertinent facet of space travel: sex in zero gravity
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
THE ADAM EXPERIMENT
This one certainly sounds good, being, apparently, a “near-future thriller with the terror of ALIEN, the horror of ROSEMARY’S BABY, the suspense of COMA!”
YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE
One of the more endearingly ridiculous entries in the early 1980s sword and sorcery movie craze was this Italian-Turkish co-production, which plays like an unholy mash-up of QUEST FOR FIRE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and STAR WARS
ROBOPOCALYPSE
I didn’t think much of this inexplicably popular take on one of science fiction’s widely utilized clichés