ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
HOLLYWOOD ENDING: HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND THE CULTURE OF SILENCE
The latest in a long line of nonfiction accounts of the crimes committed by Harvey Weinstein
Four Films Called ELDORADO
Edgar Allan Poe, diptheria, improvisation, an unlikely road trip, slumming stars and eldorado!
LIMBO (2021)
An above-average example of the new Hong Kong filmmaking aesthetic
THE LOVED ONE
“The Motion Picture with Something to Offend Everyone”…?
On WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP
A rare (perhaps sole) example of surreal history
PHILLY
A “modern tale of the macabre” that worked better in its movie adaptation: the 1981 teen comedy PRIVATE LESSONS
STAGE FRIGHT (1987)
A rather important example of 1980s Italosploitation cinema
On LES VAMPIRES
The legendary French crime saga from 1915 that’s not actually about vampires.
SHOGUN ASSASSIN
The first two episodes of the LONE WOLF AND series, combined in one unforgettable film.