REFLECTIONS FROM A CINEMATIC CESSPOOL
A must-own for films nerds everywhere, this is a joint memoir by the notorious Kuchar brothers
IT DOESN’T SUCK: SHOWGIRLS
Here we have a wholehearted defense of SHOWGIRLS, director Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 hymn to stripper life
I’LL DO ANYTHING, With Songs and Without
Amid the inexplicable success of LA LA LAND, I think it’s a good time to look back at a like-minded film whose fortunes weren’t nearly as rosy.
MUDDLED MIND: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF EDWARD D. WOOD, JR.
A most welcome volume, due to the fact that MUDDLED MIND was the first book devoted to the writings of the inimitable Edward D. Wood, Jr.
The Movies of Summer 2009
Summer movies: for many of us those words represent everything wrong with modern-day Hollywood.
2010: The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever?
Well, maybe it wasn’t the absolute worst, but movie-wise the summer of 2010 was a pretty rotten one
Art, Exploitation and the Cannon Group
Remember the Cannon Group? It was a small movie studio purchased in 1979 by the Israeli duo, Menahem Golan and Yorum Globus, who quickly turned Cannon into one of the most prolific and ambitious film conglomerates of the 1980s.
1987: It Was Quite A Year
According to author Stephen Romano, “There may never again be another time in film history like the end of the eighties–or a year like 1987.”
The Novels of H.G. Lewis
The late H.G. Lewis was the writer and director of the 1960s-era gorefests BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! and COLOR ME BLOOD RED, which comprise a loose-knit trilogy. Lewis also wrote novelizations of the three films
CONTAMINATION
Fun, hyper-gory Italian trash!