First published (in a shorter version, without Septic Man) by Little White Lies, as the first part of my Cinema Psychotronicum column Sometimes genus and species can be difficult to pin down. Take the brand of cinema known broadly – very broadly, in fact – as ‘psychotronic’, a term first appropriated by Michael Weldon from…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks In 1984, independent production house Cannon Film Group released Breakin’ (1984), a ramshackle buddy comedy which identified and helped define the breakdancing movement just as it was first beginning to cross over into popular culture. The acting was terrible, the dialogue misjudged, the plot formulaic and the direction rough-and-ready,…