Being the exploits of a Jewish teenage mystic/revolutionary/poet/love warrior, Norman P. Fudman, who also happens to be a comic genius and terribly in love with the beautiful and WASPy Brett Hunter. These adventures in revolt follow Norman as he foments a formidable leftist liberation movement in his high school, fights the forces that be, and begins a struggle that will live on in the annals of urban legend, not to mention potentially change the world for the better. Tales of back-seat rebellion, anecdotes of lusty romance and sex, instruction in spiritual and radical methods, and obscene episodes in old-fashioned serial form. Not for those with delicate sensibilities or tastes, or those fearing personal freedom. This first episode chronicles neurotic states of mind centering on an upcoming date on Norm’s calendar, the Holocaust, terrorism, and tight sweaters.

Sometimes around midnight I take an Ambien and don’t go right to sleep, and then I start writing e-mails to people and websites I don’t really know but provoke hostility in me in some way.  It’s the literary equivalent of drunk dialing.  The following epistle is a late night screed I sent to the official [...]

The Mystical Dashboard: Primer and the Frontiers of the Low Budget (originally appeared on the now defunct Some Other Magazine website in 2004.) By Simon Augustine When I was about seven, I went through a period of rapt fascination with “drugstore magic” – trick cards, plastic contraptions that pushed a spike through a quarter or made a small [...]

Surprisingly Spiritual Films #1: Elite Squad: Badasses Passing Through, First Section By Simon Paul Augustine “When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.” - Yung-An In Rio de Janeiro ghettos are ruled by two things: stunning poverty, and drug lords who offer potential escape from a pervasive life of want. [...]

Glitter. A horrible biblical allegory. The disco apocalypse. Stop the boogie just long enough to read the full review of the film “The Apple,” originally published on the website for Stop Smiling Magazine in September 2004. This was the first review I wrote and inspired and Indian hot-tub salesman from California who is a huge fan of The Apple to become friends and dueling critics. To you, Melfy Nazrahad.

The introduction and first part of the list of the 25 most disturbing movies of all time at GreenCine.

The third section of Minds In Progress: Mental Illness In American Cinema. Horror movies!

Part Two of Minds In Progress: Mental Illness In American Cinema at GreenCine: Dramas and Documentaries.

This is the first part of an article I first had published on GreenCine, Minds In Progress: Mental Illness in American Cinema. It is followed by three subsequent sections covering the milieus of: Dramas and Docs, Horrors, and Comedies. It touches films such as One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Good Will Hunting, Ordinary People, The Exorcist, Coming Apart, The Ruling Class, Harold and Maude, among many others.

A slightly negative review of Catherine Breillat’s film Fat Girl and a funny barrage of commentary.

A review of the surreal horror film Cronos for Not Coming To A Theatre Near You’s 31 Days of Horror.

A look at Deathdream, a lost horror film wonder from the mid 70s that serves as a wonderfully apt and creepy Vietnam (and Iraq) war allegory.