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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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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

Cannon’s Avengers: What If… Cannon Films Did the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

April 6, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Here in the Flickering Myth multiverse, we look at how a Cannon-produced Avengers epic may have been cast… The Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed an unprecedented run of success after Robert Downey Jr kicked off a major era in movies back with 2008’s Iron Man. Some might not have enjoyed the all-powerful grip that the MCU […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Albert Pyun, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Drago, Brandon Lee, Brooke Shields, Bruce Lee, cannon films, Carl Weathers, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Corey Feldman, Cynthia Rothrock, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Frank Langella, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lou Ferrigno, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Michael Dudikoff, Mickey Rourke, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Steve James, Sylvester Stallone

The 10 Best Villains in Sylvester Stallone Movies

April 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Every hero needs a formidable villain and action titan Sylvester Stallone has faced plenty. We look at the ten best villains in Stallone movies… Most action films live or die on the strength of the villain. An underwhelming villain can kill a film, especially if the hero isn’t all that interesting. We’ve taken a look […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Antonio Banderas, Armand Assante, Assassins, Brian Dennehy, Brian Thompson, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, Dolph Lundgren, Donald Sutherland, Eric Roberts, First Blood, Jack Palance, James Woods, Jason Mamoa, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Lithgow, Judge Dredd, lock up, Mr T, Nighthawks, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rutger Hauer, Steven Berkoff, Tango and Cash, The Expendables 2, Wesley Snipes

The Essential One Man Army Action Movies

March 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a deep dive into the explosive brilliance of the one-man army action movie with ten essentials you have to see… The 1980s were a glorious time for action cinema. They took all the tropes of the Western with near indestructible and stoic heroes taking on hordes of bad guys. They moved completely away […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Atomic Blonde, Commando, Hard Target, Invasion USA, John Wick: Chapter 2, Rambo: First Blood Part II, red scorpion, Sisu, taken, The Raid 2

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