1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies
TWINS
You probably know this novel as the inspiration for David Cronenberg’s DEAD RINGERS (1988), which was a rare instance of a film adaptation surpassing its source novel
Fifty Years of Mansonsploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family
THE HIPPY CULT MURDERS
It’s no secret that following the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders a host of “Mansonsploitation” films, songs and books invaded our lives
THE MANSON MASSACRE
The most notorious of the “Manson-sploitation” movies, an unabashedly exploitive sixty nine minute spectacle that purports to dramatize the August 1969 killings of Sharon Tate and her companions
1993: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over 1993, I’ve found it was quite an auspicious year for movies
1995: The Year in Bedlam
Some great films premiered in 1995, including Michael Mann’s HEAT, Todd Haynes’s SAFE and Mike Figgis’s LEAVING LAS VEGAS
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
NIGHT OF THE GRIZZLIES
This factual account of a double bear attack in the summer of 1967 was a groundbreaker in its day
THE STRANGE VOYAGE OF DONALD CROWHURST
Ronald Crowhurst was a deeply obsessive man, so it’s appropriate that this book about his doomed 1969 voyage is an extremely eccentric and obsessive piece of work in its own right