Gretel & Hansel

The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...

"...key contributor is the half-electronic score by Robert Coudert (Maniac). Coudert, who goes under the screen name of Rob,..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...new 4K restoration of the game-changing serial killer shocker Maniac...."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...Takahide Hori is a maniac and a genius, which makes him the perfect stop-motion..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Officer Downe

Slipknot's Clown turns director, plus more home releases

"...Shawn Crahan (best known as percussionist, backing vocalist, and maniac-in-chief Clown from mega-selling metallers Slipknot). But he's working straight..."

April 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prevenge

"...Lowe is probably best known to U.S. audiences as maniac-in-the-making Tina in Ben Wheatley's pitch-black romantic comedy Sightseers. Yet..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Yakuza Apocalypse

Japan’s nuttiest filmmaker Takashi Miike strikes again

"...Ruhian (The Raid films) shows up as an anime-besotted maniac, and the rest of the cast go fittingly foolish..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Final Girls

Smart homage to the cheesy campsite horror films of the Eighties

"...of horny Reagan-era camp counselors terrorized by a bloodthirsty maniac. Trapped in the Friday the 13th-ish film for its..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

’71

A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting

"...it’s not hard to imagine World’s Most Dangerous Places author/adventurer/maniac Robert Young Pelton eying the Provisional Irish Republican Army..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Vanish

Bryan Bockbrader takes the sealed-bottle drama on the road

"...Austin Chronicle: So, the obvious question. What kind of maniac decides to film an entire movie in a van?..."

Feb. 21, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Atticus Institute

Or, in defense of found footage and mockumentaries

"...seems to be a modern take on exploitation classic Maniac, but that's been done, and this just becomes an..."

Jan. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Metallica: Through the Never

The 32-year-old British quartet is shown in depth that only begins with the 3-D.

"...James Hetfield’s physique, neck tattoo, and miraculous preservation. The maniac hesher who penned “Disposable Heroes” and “Leper Messiah” commands..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Exclusive Peek: Jason Edmiston's Mondo Blacula

Plus a sneak behind Harryhausen's Cyclop's eye

"...become a Mondo poster regular. Starting with his startling Maniac Cop 2, his works includes their 2012 Planet of..."

Aug. 22, 2013 Design Post by Richard Whittaker

The Raven

John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in this historically imaginative but dull and off-putting detective story set in old Baltimore.

"...a fit of poetic pique? No such luck. The maniac on the loose i less Jack the Ripper than..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Artist

It's a silent, black-and-white film for the 21st century, full of coy delights.

"...at the heart of that film, laughing like a maniac but wearing a tux as well as Sean Connery..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

FF2011: 'The House by the Cemetery'

Horror icon William Lustig gets maniacal about the Fulci classic

"...he is best known as the director of the Maniac Cop series and the wholly unrelated psycho-classic Maniac (the..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

The family-friendly spy franchise is revived once again, this time with a "fourth dimension" of scratch and sniff.

"...When Marissa is assigned to hunt down the timepiece-happy maniac, her true identity as a super-spy is unavoidably revealed..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Double

Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.

"...nowhere to build from there. Uday is an unbridled maniac whose lust for women, torture, and expensive goods knows..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

Stephen rubs and rubs and can't make it smudge! No, we're not talking about the Louisiana coastline.

"...loan to us to wear to Saturday night's Worldwide Maniac (microlending for disaster relief and green housing – www.worldwidemaniac.com)..."

June 25, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Rich Dish

"After a Fashion" interviews Richie Rich and feeds you the uncut audio.

"...Rich is in Austin for the Worldwide Maniac fundraiser, Saturday, June 19 at the Austin Music Hall...."

June 18, 2010 Design Post by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Inglourious Basterds

In this World War II movie, Quentin Tarantino weaves together multiple storylines that coalesce into a literally explosive finale that daringly rewrites history.

"...Nazi hunters whose most memorable member is Roth's baseball-bat-wielding maniac, Sgt. Donny Donowitz. Leading his men to a balls-out..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Love, Grace, and Tears

Borne aloft by Jefferson Airplane

"...seen the heavy groups. Now you will see morning maniac music, believe me, yeah. It's a new dawn...."

Aug. 21, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Adios, Karl Anderson!

Karl Anderson departs ASoF

"...(seriously, where-oh-where does this guy get his energy? He's maniac, maniac on the floorboards...) is one heck of a..."

July 3, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Here's Blood in Your Eye

Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors eviscerates the 512

"...remarkable versimilitude of Savini's handiwork in The Burning and Maniac. (Which also goes a long way toward explaining why..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Saw IV

Jigsaw died in Saw III but here we get to witness his autopsy, stem to stern, thus giving him not only the last laugh, but Being and Nothingness, as well.

"...with his head lolling on the M.E.'s scale, this maniac's chaos theorems and intricate, insidious plottings continue, much to..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Skinwalkers

Another subpar, bite 'n' slash, PG-13 bloodless-bath.

"...Joe Dante directing in a stripey Johnny the Homicidal Maniac long-sleeve T? Me neither. But that's just the audience..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Adapted from Patrick Süskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.

"...as possible. The wan, jug-eared Whishaw, as the restive maniac Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, acquits himself admirably despite a recurring, hand-wringing..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thr3e

A Christian psychological horror thriller based on a novel by bestselling Christian author Ted Dekker, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.

"...then becomes personally vested in the capture of this maniac. The next victim turns out to be Kevin Parson..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Diamond

This action-packed take on the issue of blood diamonds is an example of social critique masquerading as cineplex fodder.

"...protégé (the always-excellent South African actor Vosloo) and RUF maniac Captain Poison (Harewood). While the film never quite reaches..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

See No Evil

Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.

"...their chaperone/guard (Vidler), who lost an arm to the maniac years before, must fight his now-deceased nemesis one more..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.

"...of the all-but-forgotten 1961 drive-in also-ran Door to Door Maniac. This Desperate Hours retread from American International Pictures starred..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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