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Tom Jolliffe

Ranking The Police Academy Franchise From Worst to Best

January 3, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

No One: the world needs a Police Academy franchise ranking. Assume the position, because Flickering Myth has it covered… From a golden era of goofy screwball comedies, a franchise following the misadventures of a group of police academy recruits (turned fully fledged upholders of the law) struck box office gold. Yes, there was a time […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bubba Smith, G.W. Bailey, leslie easterbrook, Michael Winslow, Paul Maslansky, Police Academy, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignmen, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, Steve Guttenberg

Ten Great Comeback Performances

December 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A career slump is often impossible to escape from but sometimes, just sometimes, a performer gets a shot and delivers a comeback performance that puts them back in the spotlight… Hollywood is a fickle place. One minute you can be hot and the next not. Whether it’s a run-of-flops or the wrong kind of infamy, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Autumn Sonata, Brendan Fraser, Demi Moore, Ellen Burstyn, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ingrid Bergman, Iron Man, Jackie Brown, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Travolta, Ke Huy Quan, Mandy, Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Rourke, Mud, Nicolas Cage, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pam Grier, Pamela Anderson, Pauly Shore, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Forster, Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, The Court Jester, The Last Showgirl, the substance, the whale, The Wrestler, Uncut Gems

Robert Eggers to enter the Labyrinth? Sold!

December 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Rumours are circulating that Robert Eggers might be bringing the Goblin Kingdom back to our screens with a sequel to Labyrinth and it could be incredible… The Hollywood rumour mill never stops and occasionally it spews out an idea that sounds far too good to be true. Robert Eggers has just overseen the release of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Labyrinth, Labyrinth 2, Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse, The Northman, the witch

10 Hidden Gems from 2024 You Have To See

December 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

2024 has been a pretty stellar year for films, so much so that some have slipped under the radar; here’s ten recommendations for hidden gems you may have missed…  It feels like cinema has had something of a creative upswing lately beneath the mainstream. In the last few years, we’ve seen some interesting auteur horrors […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ama Gloria, Didi, Girl You Know It's True, House of Screaming Glass, i saw the tv glow, Kneecap, La Chimera, Monster, Sky Peals, The Teachers' Lounge

10 Great Recent Horror Movies You Need To See

December 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Here are ten recent scarers you need to see… If mainstream cinema and blockbuster spectaculars have had a largely tough time finding traction with audiences in the past five years, horror films have had the exact opposite. The past decade has seen a healthy rise in inventive and boundary-pushing horror movies, with the past five […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barbarian, Censor, infinity pool, longlegs, men, Suitable Flesh, Talk to Me, Terrifier 2, The Lighthouse, the substance

The Essential Joe Dante Movies

December 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the essential works of the vastly underrated Joe Dante…  Some directors are rightly heralded as part of the grand pantheon of legendary directors. Thinking of Steven Spielberg immediately brings to mind an array of iconic masterpieces, not least some of his trailblazing films in the blockbuster realm.  Arriving in the […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Innerspace, Joe Dante, Matinee, the 'burbs, The Hole, The Howling

The Best and Worst Christmas Movie Presents

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Christmas is a time for giving. Some presents are great, some are terrible, and we’ve seen plenty of both in Christmas movies… It’s the season of goodwill and sharing festive cheer (and beer) with friends and family. Big Red dumps his goods down the chimney and kids across the land open their presents in baited […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bad Santa, Die Hard, home alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, Santa Claus: The Movie

An Action Christmas: Ten Action Movies Set At Christmas

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up ten action films set at Christmas… It’s time to pull your cracker and polish your baubles. Yep, Christmas is upon us. This means a festive period with a watch list of decidedly Christmassy films. By law we’ll all be watching Home Alone, The Snowman and It’s a Wonderful Life. Christmas is […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christmas Rush, Cobra, Dark Angel, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Invasion USA, Lethal Weapon, Project Shadowchaser II, Riot, the long kiss goodnight

Dear Santa: We Want More Christmas Chronicles

December 21, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s Christmas season and we look back at Netlix’s The Christmas Chronicles movies and ponder if Kurt Russell will come down the chimney for another… The trees and decorations are up, you’re buying candy, cookies and booze ahead of the holidays and then rebuying it all when you eat and drink those intended gifts yourself. […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Chris Columbus, Darby Camp, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, netflix, The Christmas Chronicles, The Christmas Chronicles 2, The Christmas Chronicles 3

10 Essential Films From 1974

December 8, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We go back half a century to offer up ten essential films from 1974… It’s incredible to think that it’s been half a century since the year 1974. As a year of cinematic offerings, it takes some beating too with a slew of incredible films. This was still right in the midst of Hollywood’s golden […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Woman Under the Influence, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Alice in the Cities, Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, Foxy Brown, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, The Sugarland Express, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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