THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NIGHT
This 1945 novel is considered the masterpiece of the “French Kafka” Marcel Bealu (1908-1993)
View ArticleDARKTOWN STRUTTERS
A blaxploitation movie parody that’s funny, illuminating and often downright ugly
View ArticleGeorge Armitage: 1942-2025
On February 15, 2025, one of America’s most individual, and least known, filmmakers left us
View ArticleConfessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer
Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd
View ArticleTHE HOUSE THAT GROANED
A graphic novel that's plenty weird, with a narrative that leans rather heavily into the perverse and psychosexual
View ArticleLOUIS THE 19th, KING OF THE AIRWAVES
A once-outlandish French-Canadian comedy about a thoroughly Average Joe who finds himself the star of a reality TV program
View ArticleFEAR IS THE MASTER
An astounding hour long documentary chronicling the “Disco Sex Guru” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990), who together with a bevy of followers literally took over the town of Antelope, Oregon in 1981
View ArticleTHE KILLING OF THE UNICORN: DOROTHY STRATTEN 1960-1980
A grief-fueled remembrance of the late Dorothy Stratten by “the director who loved her.”
View ArticleFOG HEART
In my view one of the absoloute finest books by horror writer extraordinaire Thomas Tessier
View ArticleTHE MAJESTIC
One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs
View ArticleART! TRASH! TERROR! ADVENTURES IN STRANGE CINEMA
Quite simply, if you’re a horror fan this book, which collects several decades’ worth of reviews of “movies that refuse to behave,” is a must read
View ArticleTHE JUDAS PROJECT
Although mostly forgotten these days, THE JUDAS PROJECT, which asked “What if Jesus Christ came for the first time in 1993?,” was very likely the most ambitious evangelical film of the 1990s
View ArticleTHE MAJESTIC
One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs
View ArticleTHE DOORS
RIP Val Kilmer (1959-2025), who gave the performance of his life in THE DOORS
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