★★★☆☆ Many Bruce Campbell aficionados will have overlooked William Lustig’s action slasher Maniac Cop (1988). Panned upon release, it took a swan-dive at the US box office yet garnered enough popularity in the video rental market to spawn two sequels: Maniac Cop 2 (1990) and Maniac Cop III: Badge of Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Keith Gordon’s A Midnight Clear (1992) is an undeniably intriguing investigation into the human survival instinct, focusing upon a group of young soldiers during the Second World War and their desperate attempts to return home unscathed. Set against the French winter of 1944, a group of American Intelligence operatives Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Leon Ford’s Griff the Invisible (2010), a romantic superhero comedy from Australia written and directed by Leon Ford and starring TV’s True Blood heartthrob Ryan Kwanten, is harmless fun which, one feels, had a great deal of potential which it either didn’t, or couldn’t, exploit to maximum effect.Poor Griff Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Dull, nasty and almost entirely devoid of original ideas, Anthony DiBlasi’s festival-only/straight-to-DVD horror Cassadaga (2011) may well symbolise everything that is wrong with modern horror cinema. Essentially a clumsy mish-mash of supernatural horror and torture porn tropes, DiBlasi’s second feature has little-or-no idea of what it wants to be, Continue Reading