Hype Williams made a big leap from hotshot music video director to filmmaker with 1998’s Belly, a stunning, incoherent cult classic that has aged in a really interesting way.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid for me to write up the cult British science-fiction sitcom Red Dwarf.
Read MoreMy epic journey through Stuart Gordon’s life’s work comes to a close with a look back at his taped TV adaptation of the Chicago theater staple Bleacher Bums.
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to see the bonkers martial arts Samourais. It was weird!
Read MoreStuart Gordon + SCTV? It happened, for a 1988 children’s instructional safety video, of all things.
Read MoreNo one asked for it, but in 1990, they made an It’s a Wonderful Life spin-off about Clarence’s further adventures.
It was not good.
Read MoreYou know who was great? Stuart Gordon. That man made a lot of good movies. Movies like 2007’s terrific and uncompromising Stuck.
Read MoreWe have reached the end.
Read MoreWhat if I told you that there was a magical movie that combined mind-blowing stunts, rock and roll, wizards, the devil and Phil Hartman’s film debut? That might much too good to be true but it all came together in 1978’s Stunt Rock, possibly the greatest movie ever made.
Read MoreI thought this was a movie about Jennifer Lopez fucking a sexy homeless ghost.
I was wrong.
Or was I?
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