PIECES
If limb chopping and head-loppings were enough to make for a quality product then PIECES would be a masterpiece, but they aren’t and it’s not
On Michael Haneke and Emotional Glaciation
A thematic trilogy that marked the emergence of a unique and vital auteur, and exerted a rather sizeable impact on European cinema as a whole
MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN
A striking but largely unmoving film that premiered around the same time as (and was vastly overshadowed by) Mario Bava’s classic BLACK SUNDAY
PIGGY
Cinema du Brute, which has given us CARRIE, EVILSPEAK and MAY, gets a 2022 airing in PIGGY, a slickly made Spanish import
BAD BIOLOGY
A supremely immature “Godawful Love Story” from Frank Henenlotter
BRAIN DEAD
Fact: Roger Corman did manage to turn out some interesting films in the 1990s, with the superbly trippy BRAIN DEAD near the top of the list
Marilyn Monroe Biopics
The release of BLONDE caps a long line of films about the late Norma Jeane Baker, a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe
THE MUNSTERS
The latest in a long line of unasked-for Hollywood reboots is Rob Zombie’s 2022 take on the classic TV sitcom THE MUNSTERS
BLONDE
This Marilyn Monroe biopic is no masterpiece, but it’s also not as terrible as many pundits have been claiming
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
I say VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS deserves a bit more attention than it’s thus far received, if only because it was one of the most calamitous flops of the 2010s