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Strange Days: A Must Watch New Year’s Movie

January 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe revisits the cult classic Strange Days, a great New Year-set film that was way ahead of its time… A number of films throughout the 90’s dealt with the idea of virtual reality. For better and worse, this became a popular sci-fi trend through the decade. The Lawnmower Man really kick-started the trend, which […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Angela Bassett, James Cameron, Juliette Lewis, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Wincott, ralph fiennes, Strange Days, Tom Sizemore

The Essential Man vs. AI Movies

December 29, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

AI technology is developing to astonishing levels and if you’ve seen any of these sci-fi films, you know it’s all going to go wrong…  Technology is great. Whoever invented the waffle iron is a genius. Video games keep us amused, even though I think that games peaked at 16-bit. When it comes to everyday functions, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Blade Runner, Metropolis, nemesis, Screamers, Superman III, Terminator, The Matrix, Upgrade

The Ultimate Christmas Movie Douchebags

December 25, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tis the season to be jolly but it’s also the season to be a douchebag, if some of these iconic Christmas movie douches are anything to go by… We’ve all known a steaming douchebag in our time. It could be someone with an ego that melds perfectly with a shit-eating grin, or someone who takes […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Chandler Dean, David Gillen, Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Don Ameche, Gary Bamman, Hart Brochner, home alone, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, John Glover, Lionel Barrymore, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Phil Hartman, Ralph Bellamy, Scrooged, Trading Places, William Atherton, Zack Ward

Iconic Characters Who Deserve Their Own Christmas Movie

December 25, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe places some iconic characters into the festive chaos of the Christmas movie… It’s Christmas. You might already be fed up with the never-ending barrage of Christmas songs, the neighbours who have had their lights going since they threw out their pumpkins, and the barrage of Christmas movies. Are there too many? Maybe. So […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Die Hard, Labyrinth, Mad Max, Seinfeld, taken, Withnail and I

The 10 Best Movie Santas

December 24, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Santa Claus is coming to town, but who are the best movie Santas? Here’s our picks… It’s the season to be jolly. Soon we’ll all be leaving mince pies and cookies out for Santa Claus. It’s a festive time of good will and time for watching movies. We’ve all got our Christmas traditions and favourites, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Christmas Story, Bad Santa, Billy Bob Thornton, David Gillen, David Harbour, David Huddleston, Douglas Seale, Ed Asner, Elf, Ernest Saves Christmas, jk simmons, Klaus, Kurt Russell, miracle on 34th street, Richard Attenborough, Santa Claus: The Movie, The Christmas Chronicles, the santa clause, Tim Allen, Violent Night

Five More Sylvester Stallone Movies That Need a Sequel After Cliffhanger

December 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With Sly returning as Gabe Walker in a Cliffhanger sequel, we look at five other Sylvester Stallone films that need a sequel… Sylvester Stallone is going to hit the mountains in a surprising and long awaited sequel to Cliffhanger with filming having been set for summer 2024. The Die Hard in the Snowy Mountains hit […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Assassin, Cliffhanger, cliffhanger 2, Cobra, Demolition Man, Rambo: Last Blood, Sylvester Stallone, Tango and Cash

7 Enjoyably Bad Christmas Movies

December 16, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s Christmas season and it’s a time of forgiveness…for bad movies. Here are seven enjoyably bad Christmas movies… Something about the Christmas season raises the spirits in people. Come December, it feels like audiences suddenly gain a tolerance for rubbish, be it food, music or movies. Yes, the humble cinematic Christmas offering has a crapola […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Deck the Halls, Ernest Saves Christmas, falling for christmas, home sweet home alone, Jingle All the Way, Santa Clause The Movie, Surviving Christmas

Heat: Still the Best Crime Thriller of the Modern Era

December 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Heat, which was released on this day in 1995 and remains the best crime thriller in the modern era… It’s hard to believe, but Heat is fast approaching thirty years old. The enduring neo-noir instantly enraptured fans upon release, bringing two screen titans in Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Al Pacino, Ashley Judd, Danny Trejo, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Venora, Hank Azaria, Heat, Jon Voight, Kevin Gage, Michael Mann, Mykelti Williamson, Natalie Portman, Robert De Niro, Ted Levine, Tom Noonan, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Wes Studi, William Fichtner

Underappreciated Action Stars Who Deserve More Love

December 14, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten underrated action stars who deserve more love… It’s a funny old business being an action star. You throw yourself around, kick people upside the head, try as best you can to prove you can emote as well as said kicking, and in the end, it’s in the lap of the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Chuck Jeffreys, Cynthia Rothrock, Daniel Bernhardt, Darren Shahlavi, Jason Scott Lee, Jeff Speakman, jerry trimble, Loren Avedon, Mark Dacascos, Michael Jai White, Phillip Rhee, Richard Norton, Roddy Piper, Scott Adkins, Thomas Ian Griffith

Ten Underrated Movies From 1988 That Deserve More Love

December 9, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1988 to look at ten underrated movies which deserve more love… It’s 2023 and that means that the cinematic year of 1988, stuffed with some classics and cult favourites like Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!) and Die Hard, was 35 years ago. Pick yourself up off the floor and shake the shock […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amsterdamned, As Tears Go By, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Frantic, Maniac Cop, Midnight Run, Miracle Mile, red heat, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Great Outdoors, The Lair of the White Worm, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Serpent and the Rainbow, They Live, Vice Versa, Waxwork, Young Einstein

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