Tony Maylam Movies

Inspired by true events, director Tony Maylam's action drama tells the tale of a beautiful contract killer who's forced to take on the mob after they kidnap her seven year old daughter. Stephanie Komack is a high-priced hooker and world-class assassin who carries out contracts for the Italian mafia. She wanted to start a new life in London, waiting tables to support herself and her young daughter, but now Stephanie's old bosses have tracked her down and they're about to make an offer she can't refuse. It was supposed to be her last job, but when the hit goes awry the mafia snatches Stephanie's daughter as punishment. When Stephanie comes to the stark realization that she's about to go down no matter how hard she fights, she determines to take back her daughter and seek revenge against the men who stole the only thing she ever loved. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Across the Lake details the final two months in the life of British "speed king" Donald Campbell, here played by the ubiquitous Anthony Hopkins. Haunted by the spectre of his equally famous father, who years earlier had set the world land speed record, Campbell is determined to carve his own niche by challenged the water speed record in his own personal motored vessel, the Bluebeard. Alas, this undertaking proves to be the headstrong Campbell's undoing. Verteran stage and screen actress Phyllis Calvert makes a rare TV appearance as Donald's mother, Lady Campbell. Across the Lake was telecast by BBC1 in 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Apart from early appearances by Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter, an interesting score by Rick Wakeman, and some typically effective work by effects icon Tom Savini, this slasher film is also among the more frightening of its kind. The plot concerns a summer-camp caretaker named Cropsy (Lou David) who is horribly burned by mischievous teen campers during a botched practical joke. Years later, he leaves the hospital as a disfigured gloppy mess with an axe (actually, hedgeclippers) to grind. After dispatching a local prostitute, Cropsy heads out to the wilderness to terrorize a group of campers. They're the usual bunch of horny, obnoxious teenagers, but there are some interesting performances by Larry Joshua as a mean-spirited bully and Brian Backer (of Fast Times at Ridgemont High) as a put-upon nerd. The campers visit an island and, in a scene heavily cut by the ratings board prior to release, several of them die in a horrifying mass slaughter aboard a boat. The remaining teens are brutally picked off one by one until Cropsy is finally defeated. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

This documentary, narrated by James Coburn, covers the 1976 Innsbruck Austria Winter Olympics. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi