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Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?

June 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, Barbie, Civil War, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Godzilla Minus One, Mandy, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Oppenheimer, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, saltburn, The Fall Guy, Top Gun: Maverick

Movie Review – The Last Kumite (2024)

May 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Abdel Qissi, Billy Blanks, Cynthia Rothrock, David Kurzhal, Kurt McKinney, Mathis Landwehr, Matthias Hues, Michel Qissi, Paul Hertzog, Ross W Clarkson, Stan Bush, The Last Kumite

How Roger Corman Changed Cinema

May 13, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Apollo 13, Bloodfist, Boxcar Bertha, Death Race 2000, Fitzcarraldo, Francis Ford Coppola, frankenstein unbound, House of Usher, Jack Nicholson, jonathan demme, Little Shop of Horrors, Martin Scorsese, peter bogdanovich, Piranha, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Silence of the Lambs, The Intruder, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven

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

May 12, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andrew Kevin Walker, Flesh of the Gods, Kristen Stewart, Oscar Isaac, Panos Cosmatos

10 Essential Films From 1984

May 7, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Amadeus, Beverly Hills Cop, Blood Simple, Ghostbusters, Once Upon a Time in America, Paris Texas, Purple Rain, The Terminator

5 Underrated Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies

May 4, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Assassination Games, Desert Heat, Enemies Closer, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Legionnaire, Maximum Risk, Nowhere to Run, replicant, Six Bullets, The Bouncer, Wake of Death

A Triple Hit of Vintage Pam Grier

May 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Coffy, Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, Pam Grier, Sid Haig, The Big Bird Cage

Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels

April 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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: […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Dune, Dune: Part Two, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Timothee Chalamet, Tom Cruise

Great Movies Guaranteed To Creep You Out

April 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Audition, Blue Velvet, cure, Hard Candy, Misery, Nightcrawler, Repulsion, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist, The Shining

How Will Quentin Tarantino Bow Out?

April 20, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

After scrapping his planned final film The Movie Critic, Quentin Tarantino needs a new project for his tenth and final film… Quentin Tarantino needs no introduction. To even casual moviegoers, his name carries the kind of weight that few directors have managed in modern cinema. Whether you think he’s a cinematic deity, or vastly overrated, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown, kill bill, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Star Trek, The Movie Critic

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