PINK LADY’S MOTION PICTURE
Pink Lady was the 1970s Japanese forerunner to the Spice Girls, and this was their unimpressive film debut
OPPOSABLE THUMBS: HOW SISKEL & EBERT CHANGED MOVIES FOREVER
The first book about the ultra-combative, never-to-be-repeated Siskel & Ebert dynamic
TV Flashback: YOGI AT THE MOVIES
Yogi Berra, film critic?
FREAKS
A milestone in film history, and a must for any cult movie buff
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
Another example of the “__ from Hell” cycle that proliferated in early nineties Hollywood
RED ROOMS
All the bad things we’ve heard about the dark web are confirmed in this Quebecois thriller that, in direct contrast to most Quebec made films, was strong enough to interest distributors outside Canada
NAKED THEATER AND UNCENSORED HORROR
The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing
THE AMAZING STORY BEHIND THE LEGEND OF BILLY JACK
An unabashed puff piece that nonetheless emerges as the definitive resource on all things BILLY JACK
THE GARDENER
1970s horticultural horror that features the legendary male sex symbol Joe Dallesandro in his first non-Andy Warhol affiliated film
John Carpenter, Halloween Maestro
The aesthetic qualities of John Carpenter’s films are certainly worth enumerating. My interest here is in how those films and their maker transformed Hollywood