ATLANTIS
Bleak is the word for this 2019 Russian made dystopian parable
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
Weird and Wonderful Christmas Cinema from Around the World
A much-needed addendum to a previous essay, with an overview of weird holiday-themed films emerging from around the world
1982: The Year in Bedlam
What follows are the type of little-known films that tend to comprise my “Look Back in Bedlam” listings, of which this is the 1982 entry
TV Flashback: MAX HEADROOM
If ever a show shouldn’t have worked it was this one, yet somehow MAX HEADROOM emerged as one of the great American TV programs of the decade
DIAMOND PYRAMID
One of the better made-for-TV movies directed by the visionary and prolific András Rajnai, a pioneer in the Hungarian TV field
1983: The Year in Bedlam
If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap
SWISSMADE
a 1968 science fiction themed three parter from Switzerland that’s known primarily for the fact that one of its segments was designed (not directed, as the imdb erroneously reports) by the late H.R. Giger
SPLIT
SPLIT is simply one of the world’s great unknown science fiction films
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (1980) / Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone’s reverence for THE DEMOLISHED MAN is evident in this, one of the most famous unfilmed screenplays in existence