ROLLERBALL (2002)
One of the most calamitous flops of the 2000s was ROLLERBALL (2002), which lost MGM/UA an enormous amount of money and destroyed the careers of its director and its leading man
TERROR ABOVE THE SUNSET STRIP
This 22-minute jaw-dropper can be termed the AI movie to end all AI movies
OLDBOY
After twenty years this film remains an astonishing sensory assault
SOME CALL IT LOVING
The altogether bizarre second feature directed by James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick’s former producing partner
PRIVATE PROPERTY
A “Terrible and disgusting” (so claimed JFK) 1960 indie? Perhaps, but it’s also a good one.
10 Notable Cinematic Depictions of the Inferno
My top 10 Hell-set films
MACISTE IN HELL
A monument of silent era Italian cinema, and one of the screen’s most indelible depictions of Hell
UNDER PARIS
There are worse ways to waste 104 minutes.
TOKYO BLOOD
A 33-minute four parter by Japan’s Sogo Ishii, returning to form after a nine-year gap.
WITH LOVE, MOMMIE DEAREST: THE MAKING OF AN UNINTENTIONAL CAMP CLASSIC
All about the making of MOMMIE DEAREST (1981)