2017: Bedlam in Print
Assembling a best-books-of-the-year list is always a dicey proposition. Quite simply, nobody can be expected to track down and read every worthwhile book printed over the course of the previous year…
25 FIREMAN’S STREET
An ambitious piece of avant-garde filmmaking from early-1970s Hungary that’s both an impassioned political statement and a hallucinatory spectacle
BLAZE OF EMBERS
This collection of seven erotic-surreal stories, initially published back in 1959 (in French), was apparently quite the shocker in its day
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HITLER
Here was have what is probably the most controversial work in a career that has seen no shortage on controversy
Funnybook Flashback: XOMBI
The nineties were a banner era for weird media, comic books in particular
MARS AND APRIL
Science fiction from Quebec that isn’t perfect (far from it!) but deserves points for effort
GRANDMOTHERS RECHARGE WELL!
This Czech satire owes more than a little something to Ray Bradbury’s I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!/THE ELECTRIC GRANDMOTHER, but taken on its own terms it’s pretty good
THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN
One of the most interesting translations to appear in some time, this is the first-ever English version of a short novel that was originally published in Italian back in 1977
Ranking The Rankings: The “Best” Canadian Films
It’s been claimed that a third of the world’s most depressing films emerge from Canada and, having viewed many a Canadian film, I believe it
The Good and the Bad of WILD PALMS
A 1993 miniseries that was never as weird or revolutionary as the “psychedelic dossier filled with borrowed moonlight from a floating world” it purported to be