TV Flashback: A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
The Christmas ghost story is a British tradition that found its ideal screen capture in the BBC’s A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
View ArticleDISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL
DIrector Robert Zemeckis' ambitious but deadening take on Chsrles Dickens' clsssic
View ArticleTHE STRANGERS
A vastly overpraised novel, but one that imparts a powerful sense of near-otherworldly strangeness
View ArticleFULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND
Certainly one of the most unusual novels to emerge from the 1930s hard-boiled school
View ArticleGODZILLA MINUS ONE
It was inevitable that Japan’s Toho Studios, after decades of aggressively rebranding Godzilla for the international market, would finally get it right.
View Article2023: A Look Back in Bedlam
Welcome to the latest edition of my Look Back in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-worthy happenings
View Article2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previious year's noteworthy film releases
View ArticleTIME, A FALCONER: A STUDY OF SARBAN
The first and only book devoted to the life and literary output of England's John W. Wall, a.k.a. Sarban
View ArticlePAUL BARTEL: THE LIFE AND FILMS
A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel
View ArticleHOW LUCKY I WAS: MY LIFE AND TIMES
The self-published autobiography of a writer, professional poker player and teacher who once counted yours-truly among his pupils
View ArticleEVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL
The long-in-coming memoir by the German filmmaker and sometime actor Werner Herzog
View ArticleDavid J. Skal: 1952-2024
The January 1, 2024 demise of David John Skal, whose car was struck by a drunk driver in Glendale, CA, started off 2024 on a tragic note
View ArticlePRINCE OF DARKNESS
Some commentators would have you believe this film is one of John Carpenter’s biggest failures, while others maintain that it’s a masterwork---I say both views are wrong
View ArticleTHE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED
The most notorious “lost” film of our---if not all---time, reviewed in screenplay form
View Article9/30/55
A unique movie novelization from one of the top novelizers of the 1970s and 80s
View ArticleCOLOR OF NIGHT
I wish I could report that COLOR OF NIGHT, the final film directed by filmmaker extraordinaire Richard Rush, was a superior example of the erotic thriller format, but I’m afraid that’s not the cas
View ArticleDONKEY SKIN
A fairy tale adaptation from 1970 that despite a creepy incest angle emerges as a justified classic
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