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Tom Jolliffe is a Senior Staff Writer and Producer at Flickering Myth and Flickering Myth Films. His work includes Renegades, Cinderella’s Revenge, War of the Worlds: The Attack, and The Baby in the Basket.

10 Essential Horror Movies From 1986

June 19, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a look back at some essential horror movies of 1986… Horror is making a comeback right now, with indie horror proving particularly successful thanks to films like Obsession, Iron Lung and Backrooms. It continues a trend from the past decade of new and interesting voices in the genre, delivering low-budget films […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blue Velvet, dead-end drive in, Death Powder, From Beyond, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, night of the creeps, The Fly, The Hitcher, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, vamp

Angels, Demons and Devils with Keanu Reeves

June 13, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Keanu Reeves is clearly an Angel, so it’s natural that he’s found himself battling demons and the devil throughout his cinematic career. We take a look at those battles of good vs evil and life vs death… It’s almost impossible not to love Keanu Reeves. He’s one of Hollywood’s good guys and an effortlessly likeable […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 47 Ronin, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Constantine, Good Fortune, The Devil's Advocate, the matrix reloaded, The Matrix Resurrections, the matrix revolutions

Masters of the Universe Isn’t the Bomb You Think It Is

June 12, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Masters of the Universe has opened as analysts expected, with underwhelming box office. But the doom-mongers might be missing something… Despite a strong marketing campaign and positive early buzz, Masters of the Universe has performed as pessimistically suggested by box office analysts, if not slightly less than those low estimates. The film was greeted with […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Camila Mendes, Dolph Lundgren, He-Man, Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Masters of the Universe, Nicholas Galitzine, Travis Knight

10 Essential Thrillers from 2016

June 9, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe ventures back a decade to look at ten essential thrillers from 2016… Have you ever come across a film you saw recently on the big screen? Freshly released, brand spanking new, and it feels like it was only yesterday. Then you take a look at the year in parentheses and realise […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Anti Matter, Blood Father, Elle, Hell or High Water, Hush, Nocturnal Animals, Personal Shopper, Split, The Neon Demon, The Wailing

8 Essential Nordic Noir Movies

June 2, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We head across the Nordic region to bring you a selection of essential and grim noir movies…. Wintry surroundings with cold, stark, and grey landscapes. Nordic cinema does certain things as well as, if not better than, anyone else. The halcyon days of Ingmar Bergman saw intense character studies that scraped back the psyche of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A White White Day, In Order of Disappearance, insomnia, Nightwatch, Pusher, The Element of Crime, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Hunt

10 Essential Movies from 1966

May 25, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s a trip back to the swinging 60s for these essential films from 1966… 1966 has a lot of relevance for English football lovers, with that year marking England’s first (and thus far only) World Cup trophy. Remember back to the halcyon days of Euro 96 and England’s big anthem going into it, Three Lions […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alfie, Andrei Rublev, Blow Up, Cul-De-Sac, Daisies, Persona, Shadows, The Battle for Algiers, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Tokyo Drifter

12 Essential Job Title Movies

May 10, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Sometimes a movie does what it says on the tin, such as these movies named after job titles… Choosing the title of your movie can be one of the hardest tasks. Get it wrong, and you might find your film is wholly mis-sold or misinterpreted by audiences. That was one of the reasons William Friedkin’s […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adventures of a Plumber's Mate, Blade Runner, Clerks, Cop, Personal Shopper, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, RoboCop, Showgirls, Stalker, Taxi Driver, The Boxer, The Driver, The Exorcist, The Handmaiden, The Lawnmower Man, The Piano Teacher, The Stripper, The Stuntman, The Transporter, The Wedding Singer, Timecop, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Essential Comedy Movies of 2006

May 9, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to venture back to when cinemas had a new comedy every week, with the essential comedy movies of 2006… If there’s one genre that feels like it needs a shot in the arm, it’s the comedy genre. There was a time not too long ago when it felt like we had specialists, and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: borat, Idiocracy, Little Miss Sunshine, night at the museum, Stranger Than Fiction, Talladega Nights, The Devil Wears Prada

12 Erotically Charged Thrillers You Need To See

May 2, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We get hot under the collar with twelve essential, erotically-charged thrillers… Erotic thrillers are experiencing something of a comeback and are arguably more mainstream than ever. Plenty of fare, once consigned to Skinemax cable premieres in the dead of night, are capturing audiences on the big screen or taking pride of place as streaming originals […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Snake of June, Basic Instinct, Body Double, Body Heat, Bound, Crimes of Passion, Death Among the Pines, Elle, Eyes Wide Shut, In the Realm of the Senses, Jill Rips, Last Tango in Paris, Lifeforce, Payback, saltburn, Scorned, The Handmaiden, The Housemaid, The Last Seduction, The Piano Teacher, Turkish Delight, Under the Skin, wild things

Close Encounters of the Spielberg Kind

April 26, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Spielberg delivers a close encounter with extraterrestrials this year with Disclosure Day, but this ain’t his first rodeo… Steven Spielberg might be 80 this year, but he’s showing no signs of slowing down. This June, his latest blockbuster Disclosure Day arrives, and the trailer promises plenty of Spielbergian magic. We can expect UFOs, aliens, and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, Disclosure Day, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg, War of the Worlds

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