ANGEL BLADE
“Angel Blade” is a sinister exercise in disturbing realism set amidst the seedy sexual underbelly of Las Vegas…

Posted on December 5, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
WHO FLUNG POO (DVD)
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![]() Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 62 minutes |
“Who Flung Poo” is the story of an aspiring artist named Poo who paints with human excrement…

Posted on December 2, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
BE COOL (DVD)
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![]() Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 114 minutes |
There is nothing worse than a microwave movie that doesn’t even supply any short term value whatsoever! Bear in mind while reading this review that I am an avid reader of Elmore Leonard and I am a huge fan of the book, so my opinion of the film is in comparison to the book. “Be [...]

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE (DVD)
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![]() Year Released: 1977 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 86 minutes |
“Fight for Your Life” follows along similar lines of “Last House on the Left” only ten times better…

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
RICHARD W. HAINES: UNSUNG HERO OF UNSUNG CINEMA
With Haines’ beginnings as an editor, it was always in the cards that he was going to make a film himself, only that dream came earlier than anyone would have thought in the profitable slasher debut “Splatter University”…

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
RICHARD W. HAINES: UNSUNG HERO OF UNSUNG CINEMA
What kinds of jobs did you do while you were a struggling filmmaker? The first job I had after graduating NYU was working as an assistant editor and eventually sound editor on the low budget exploitation film, “Mother’s Day” in 1979/1980. I saw a post on the bulletin board seeking production assistants and called to [...]

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
RICHARD W. HAINES: UNSUNG HERO OF UNSUNG CINEMA
Your method of filmmaking is somewhat fascinating, giving a big break to many aspiring performers and aspiring filmmakers without experience who quite often cannot even get on a regular set even to get an autograph. How successful is your method of giving aspiring talent a foot in the door? A number of actors got their [...]

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
GREGORY PAKIS AND GARTH PETRIDIS: METHOD TO THE MADNESS
In 2001, Melbourne based filmmaker Gregory Pakis was contacted by his cousin Garth Petridis from jail to turn his life story into a film…

Posted on September 16, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
SOFT MONEY
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![]() Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
HOT NEW INDIE! This film is likely to become Haines’ biggest success to date as it is a succinct, punchy, witty, fast paced cinematic triumph which achieves so much more than its low-budget would have allowed it to do on paper. Razor-sharp writing that could easily take an eye out…

Posted on September 9, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
RAZOR EATERS
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![]() Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 96 minutes |
How does one write a review for the best Australian film ever made?

Posted on August 7, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
THE GARTH METHOD
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![]() Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
In 2001, out-of-work actor Garth Petridis was at the end of his rope after many years of rejection in the acting world. In a moment of desperation Garth decided that crime was his last resort in order to become a household name…

Posted on August 6, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
DEBBIE DOES DALLAS UNCOVERED
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![]() Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 47 minutes |
An interesting little documentary which explores the mythology surrounding one of the most famous porn films of all time…

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
BRITNEY POUNDS JUSTIN
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![]() Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
Britney is a hard working wife of a husband who pays no attention to her whatsoever…

Posted on July 27, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
DIVINE RETRIBUTION
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![]() Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
“Divine Retribution” is an overambitious attempt to tell a crime story out of sequence…

Posted on July 27, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi
GRIM
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![]() Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 16 minutes |
How happy would you be if the love of your life had just proposed to you? Over the moon, right? But there’s a catch. He tells you that he is The Grim Reaper…

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Daniel Bernardi







