THE GREATEST GANGSTER MOVIE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN: ABEL FERRARA’S THE FUNERAL
A passionate exploration of Abel Ferrara’s THE FUNERAL (1996), which is indeed the finest gangster movie you’ve “never seen”
RABID
David Cronenberg’s second feature, which stands as an interesting companion-piece to his first, the notorious SHIVERS
DROWNING BY NUMBERS
Three women, all named Cissy, drown their husbands in one of the most inscrutable (and bizarrely entertaining) films made by the UK’s Peter Greenaway
THE HITCHER (1986)
A true slasher classic from the eighties
2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
2025: A Look Back in Bedlam
2025 in review: The good, the bad and the many noteworthy deaths!
JOHNNY MNEMONIC
A film that was forecast to be a revolutionary melding of cyberpunk and mainstream sensibilities, but is best viewed nowadays as a dry run for THE MATRIX
A KARATE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
A film whose “qualities” are summed up by its title
A VERY NUTTY CHRISTMAS
One of the weirder Lifetime movies I’ve seen, offering a cockeyed inversion of THE NUTCRACKER and a message that fully lives up to the “nutty” designation: that true holiday cheer is possible only through the intercession of a doll in human form
The Bad Christmas Movie
Christmas movies are eternally revered, but in recent years a (relatively) new format has gained in popularity: the Bad Christmas movie