THE SPIRIT GALLERY
A 1995 feature that was apparently conceived as “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY in reverse,” which fails to convey the sheer bizarrie of this sustained hallucination of a movie
1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies
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
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
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
The first and very likely best history of underground “comix” in America
Funnybook Flashback: SKULL COMICS
Looking back at the underground comix of the early 1970s, one finds that horror, unsurprisingly, was a popular topic
1993: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over 1993, I’ve found it was quite an auspicious year for movies
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
The spirit of Dario Argento, spiced with more than a hint of the anything-goes vibe of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s HAUSU, is evident in this British made, Italian language oddity from 2018
2018: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2018? There’s really not much to say, outside my usual observation that the really good stuff often lurks outside the mainstream