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Tom Jolliffe

Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?

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After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs? Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer […]

Movie Review – The Last Kumite (2024)

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The Last Kumite,2024. Directed by Ross W. Clarkson. Starring Mathis Landwehr, Matthias Hues, Kurt McKinney, Billy Blanks, Cynthia Rothrock, Michel Qissi, Abdul Qissi, David Kurzhal, Kira Kortenbach, Mona Moula and Mike Derudder. SYNOPSIS Michael Rivers, a skilled martial artist is forced to fight in an illegal fighting tournament in order to save his daughter. Along […]

How Roger Corman Changed Cinema

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After the sad news that Roger Corman has passed away, we look at his legacy and how he changed cinema… Roger Corman leaves behind an imperious résumé, with over 500 credits. Most prolific as a producer, Corman was also a director who made some incredible films (most notably his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations) and even […]

5 Reasons Why Flesh of the Gods Will Be THE Film to Watch in 2025

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It’s time to look at five reasons why Panos Cosmatos’ next film Flesh of the Gods will be a MUST see… It’s been a long wait to see how Panos Cosmatos will follow up his cult favourite, Mandy. The 2019 kaleidoscopic horror classic was a key moment in the Nicolas Cage renaissance and a film […]

10 Essential Frankenstein-Inspired Films

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Tighten those neck bolts, it’s time for ten essential Frankenstein-inspired movies… Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary classic and one of my all-time favourite books, from an era of fiction I love. The tale of the titular doctor creating a reanimated monster has inspired plenty of literature since but it has also provided ample inspiration […]

10 Essential Films From 1984

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It’s time to venture back 40 years as we look at the best movies of 1984… The 80s were a glorious era for movies and music. As the years drift on, the kids born and raised in the decade such as me, suddenly find themselves in their 40s, careering headlong to the big 5-0. When […]

5 Underrated Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies

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The Muscles from Brussels returns soon with Darkness of Man, so here’s five of his most underrated films to get you in the mood… There are two kinds of people who don’t like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Crazy folk and Steven Seagal. The rest of us love to partake in a little bit of Van Dammage, […]

A Triple Hit of Vintage Pam Grier

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Tom Jolliffe looks back on three of Pam Grier’s iconic Blaxploitation era films, Foxy Brown, Coffy and The Big Bird Cage… Remember the theme song for The Spy Who Loved Me? Nobody does it better… Well, when it comes to being the undisputed Queen of Blaxploitation cinema, really, nobody did it better than Pam Grier. […]

Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels

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They’ve all been championed as some of the best of their genre but are these bloated and overlong sequels really that good? I love event cinema, especially when it’s good and in recent years, although we’ve seen an increasingly mediocre output from Disney and Marvel, we’ve still seen some pretty great blockbuster cinema. Top Gun: […]

Great Movies Guaranteed To Creep You Out

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Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of unsettling cinema guaranteed to give you the creeps… Every film has a particular D.N.A. Within this cinematic coding it can feature elements synonymous with a particular genre, or techniques to give the film an overriding tone. For horror, the film-makers could mould their film in a variety of […]