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THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NIGHT

This 1945 novel is considered the masterpiece of the “French Kafka” Marcel Bealu (1908-1993)

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DARKTOWN STRUTTERS

A blaxploitation movie parody that’s funny, illuminating and often downright ugly

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George Armitage: 1942-2025

On February 15, 2025, one of America’s most individual, and least known, filmmakers left us

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Confessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer

Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd

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THE HOUSE THAT GROANED

A graphic novel that's plenty weird, with a narrative that leans rather heavily into the perverse and psychosexual

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LOUIS 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

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IMAGES

A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch

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FEAR 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

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THE KILLING OF THE UNICORN: DOROTHY STRATTEN 1960-1980

A grief-fueled remembrance of the late Dorothy Stratten by “the director who loved her.”

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FOG HEART

In my view one of the absoloute finest books by horror writer extraordinaire Thomas Tessier

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On DOGRA MAGRA

“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”

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DISLOCATION

From China, a heavily stylized sci-fi satire

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THE MAJESTIC

One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs

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ART! 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

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THE 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

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HARDCORE

A strong film that could have been much better

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R.I.P. Kurodahan Press

Too bad

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THE MAJESTIC

One of the most ambitious films of the aughts, and one of the biggest bombs

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FEAR (1996)

A slick and simple thriller that (mostly) works

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THE DOORS

RIP Val Kilmer (1959-2025), who gave the performance of his life in THE DOORS

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