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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE COLLECTOR
Two recently deceased talents, Terence Stamp and Samatha Eggar, has their breakthrough roles in this film
ORGY OF THE DEAD
From Ed Wood, a charmingly archaic sexploitation outrage that was apparently conceived as a loose sequel to PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
BURNING PARADISE
For me, this “gothic hell prison movie” will always be the most satisfying film directed by Hong Kong’s late Ringo Lam (1955-2018)
POKOL INFERNO
Dante’s Inferno, adapted as a much weirder-than-average Hungarian TV movie from the 70s
TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL
The debut feature of Canada’s Guy Maddin, and a potent signifier of what was to come
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES
A deliberately overwrought Frenchified attempt at American noir fiction, with some mighty saucy passages
THE LONG WALK
This was the second, and most interesting, of several Stephen King novels published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym
THE WILDS
So-so wilderness horror from the eighties
CHILDREN OF THE BLACK SABBATH
Literary horror at its best!
JOURNALS OF THE PLAGUE YEARS
AIDS-inspired dystopian grunge from the irrepressible Norman Spinrad
LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE: THE LIFE OF JOHN CANDY
A book about the life (and death) of everybody’s favorite Canadian funnyman John Candy
A VIEWING GUIDE TO THE PANDEMIC: DEPICTIONS OF PLAGUE AND PANDEMIC ON FILM AND TV
A nifty book-length study (the first, if I’m not mistaken) of disease/pandemic movies
JOSH HARTNETT DEFINITELY WANTS TO DO THIS…TRUE STORIES FROM A LIFE IN THE SCREEN TRADE
A resolutely witty and enjoyable recounting of a couple years in the life of the Australian film director Bruce Beresford
THE DISASTER ARTIST: MY LIFE INSIDE THE ROOM, THE GREATEST BAD MOVIE EVER MADE
A hilarious and endearing account of the making of “The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” and the friendship that forged it.
RAIDERS! — THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE
The stranger-then-fiction story of the making of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
Fast Times with the Uncool
On Cameron Crowe’s FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (the book) and THE UNCOOL
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Antifa and Brett Easton Ellis
As of October 2025, the major movie-related controversy is over Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Drew Struzan: 1947-2025
Celebrating the work of America’s most iconic movie poster artist
TV Flashback: FANTASTIC TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
An Edgar Allan Poe inspired TV anthology; at least one segment is quite good.
Robert Redford: 1936-2025
RIP