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Miracle Mile

May 20, 2026

A payphone rings. A man picks up. A voice panics: “It’s happening!” Nuclear warheads have been launched. Los Angeles will be gone in seventy minutes.…

Vesper

May 19, 2026

They spent ten years pitching English-language sci-fi projects. Then they went home to Lithuania and made one of the most fully realized dystopian worlds in…

Bloody Bridget

May 17, 2026

Richard Elfman founded Oingo Boingo before his younger brother Danny Elfman joined the band and eventually left to become one of the most celebrated film…

Liquid Sky

May 14, 2026

Aliens land on the roof in a ship the size of a dinner plate – searching for heroin. They discover something better: the endorphin released…

Becky

May 12, 2026

A fourteen-year-old girl discovers that she is far more dangerous than the escaped convicts who have taken her family hostage. She dispatches them using, among…

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays

May 10, 2026

Wayyyyyyyyy before Wicked. Wayyy before MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum (El-Pha-Ba… get it?) stood on stage in a white suit, delivering a…

God Told Me To

May 9, 2026

A Catholic detective hunts a cult leader who may be his half-brother, born from the same extraterrestrial visitation. This film is a police procedural, then…

The Thing with Two Heads

May 7, 2026

Terminally ill racist surgeon Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) has been experimenting with head transplants in his basement. His plan is to have his own…

A Dark Song

May 4, 2026

Liam Gavin had watched a documentary about Aleister Crowley performing the Abramelin ritual at Loch Ness. The ritual, drawn from a fifteenth-century grimoire known as…

King Frat

May 3, 2026

Animal House is a beloved classic of American comedy. This isn’t that. This is what Animal House looks like from the bottom of a ditch,…

Stuck on You!

April 29, 2026

Personal Note: Your humble host worked on this film as a teenager, painting caveman clubs on the roof of the Troma building. He still has…

Dead Man Walking

April 28, 2026

A meek accountant from Cleveland travels west by train to a town called Machine and a job that no longer exists. Things deteriorate from there.…

The Incredible Melting Man

April 27, 2026

This is the story of a film that ate itself. Writer-director William Sachs conceived THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN as a loving parody of 1950s atomic-age…

Forbidden Zone

April 25, 2026

This is what happens when an avant-garde theatre troupe decides to make a feature film with no money, no script to speak of, and complete…

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

April 24, 2026

Since the early 1980s, hundreds of cryptic tiles have been found embedded in the asphalt of major intersections in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Washington…