Bad Blood (1982)
Jun 4, 1999True-Life New Zealand Mass Murderer
Film based on true-life New Zealand mass murderer Stanley Graham, a disenfranchised farmer who became a local hero after shooting several police and inspiring a massive manhunt
Jack Thompson
Broken Arrow (1995)
Aug 25, 2002Action/Nuclear Hijacking
John Woo's second Hollywood film, an action film about nuclear hijacking. Woo's unique stylistics promptly get buried under the machinery of big-budget action filmmaking
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Jun 20, 2002Space Opera
The second of George Lucas’s Stars Wars prequels is no particular improvement. The romance is stiff and awkward, badly written while the effects sequences seem to be running out of new things to do and so just up the scale of what has happened before with so much going on it reaches a point of visual overload
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Feb 25, 2006True Life Psycho
Film in which Sean Penn plays the real-life figure of a man frustrated by the pressures of everyday life who snaps and attempts to fly a plane into the White House
Feed (2005)
Jan 19, 2008Feeder Fetishism Psycho-Thriller
The one really good film from Brett Leonard, director of The Lawnmower Man, this delves into the fetish community of feederism and determines to push the material to something provocative
Man-Thing (2005)
Sep 9, 2007Marvel Comics Adaptation/Creature in the Swamps
The bastard child among the spate of pre-MCU Marvel Comics adaptations during the mid-2000s, a film based on their swamp-dweller that throws out most of the comic-book
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
Aug 6, 2019Australian Exploitation Cinema Documentary
Hilarious and entertaining documentary about the Australian exploitation film that flourished between the late 1970s and 80s. The film delves into an arena of forgotten films and tells their stories with a great deal of detail
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
Aug 27, 2011House of Goblins
Guillermo Del Toro produced cinematic remake of a 1970s tv movie, this creates a good deal of creepy mood and atmosphere with Katie Holmes as a mother who finds goblins in the cellar, but never pushes any of it in a way that jolts audiences in their seats