I do stuff for 88 Films, and I also own a video store.
One day I'll wake up from all of this...
I'm lucky enough to have this blinkered vision when it comes to buzz and hype about a film, whereby I don't buy into it nor get sucked in, instead letting it drift over my social media timelines with a certain cloak of invisibility.
Such rambling pre-amble means that when I get to sit down to a movie like this, I have zero expectations, thus don't feel any inclination to be swayed by my peers into regarding it to be an…
“Give him more than two or three scenes, and frankly your tolerance level of Joe Spinell dries up. I don’t think he’s as annoying in this as he is in Maniac – a film he practically sinks, but there’s something whiny about his performance” Kim Newman
My jaw hit the floor when Kim Newman gave this rather damning analysis of Joe Spinell’s acting abilities as he introduced The Last Horror Film as one of the Section 3 nasties within the…