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Tom Jolliffe

8 Rounds with Rocky and Creed: Ranking the Rocky Franchise

March 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As Adonis Creed steps into the ring for his third cinematic outing, it’s high time we looked back at the previous adventures of Rocky Balboa (and Adonis) and ranked them from Rocky V to best… Creed III is punching into cinemas right now and it’s the first time that Adonis Creed gets to step out […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Creed, creed II, Michael B. Jordan, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Sly Stallone

Action Movies Blessed with Stunning Cinematography

March 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten action movies blessed with stunning cinematography… There are great action movies and there is great cinematography. Not always, but occasionally, the two meet in the middle and we get an action film that also looks especially incredible. In general, the action genre may go for a more neutral palette, to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Brotherhood of The Wolf, Drive, Hard Boiled, Highlander, John Wick 3, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Point Break, Seven Samurai, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Matrix

Revisiting the world of Richard B. Riddick

February 20, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With Riddick: Furya now officially a go, Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at the first three chapters of The Chronicles of Riddick… Before Vin Diesel headlined a car-based franchise which is about to unleash the tenth instalment of the mainline series, he starred in a low budget sci-fi creature feature that became a cult […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: David Twohy, Pitch Black, Riddick, Riddick: Furya, The Chronicles of Riddick, Vin Diesel

Three Masterful Technical Achievements from 2022

February 4, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at three technical marvels of filmmaking which wowed audiences in 2022… 2022 was a pretty stellar year for film. We had some great indie films, some spectacular action films, some choice cuts of world cinema and we were also treated to one of the best years in horror for quite some […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Athena, Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron, Joseph Kosinski, Romain Gavras, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40 Has Never Been More Relevant

February 4, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

On the 40th anniversary of its release, Tom Jolliffe revisits the 1983 cult classic Videodrome, which has never been more relevant… Director David Cronenberg has always been a specialist in dark sci-fi horror. In 1983 he made a cult film called Videodrome. A lot of film buffs around my age have seen it. It’s a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: David Cronenberg, Debbie Harry, James Woods, videodrome

15 Great Feel-Good Sing-a-Long Movies

February 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With dreary nights and a world in meltdown, we need a pick me up, so here are fifteen great sing-a-long films that are impossible not to enjoy… I stopped at pump number one yesterday and put a twenty in the tank. Then I set off. I got to pump number two and had to fill […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Fame, Grease, Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, Phantom of the Opera, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Purple Rain, Quadrophenia, Rocky IV, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, The Commitments, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Wizard of Oz, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Good and Bad of Indulged Filmmakers

February 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Some filmmakers get full autonomy. Sometimes this is good. Sometimes, not so much… When you hit a level of success in filmmaking as a director (or occasionally a producing star actor) you find that studios increasingly bend over backwards to your every whim. This can even be to the point of risky ventures with huge […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, Christopher Nolan, David Lean, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Eggars, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans, The Irishman, The Northman, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

Ke Huy Quan: From Coolest Kid of the Mid-80s to Comeback King!

February 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on a childhood idol getting a long overdue and triumphant comeback… Growing up in the 80s I was lavished with great movies. I loved all kinds of films, from kidcentric adventure films to movies like Terminator and Die Hard which I really shouldn’t have been watching. Many of my idols growing up were […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Encino Man, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Finding Ohana, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, The Goonies

Terrible Remake Ideas: Past, Present, Future

February 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten unnecessary remakes from the past and coming soon that no one asked for… Hollywood is full of interesting and original ideas. Studios are actively looking to pursue new concepts and move away from simply repackaging or updating existing IPs. Okay, I’m fibbing. Hollywood is desperately scraping any old idea they […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Conan the Barbarian, Highlander, Ocean's Eleven, Point Break, Psycho, Road House, RoboCop, The Crow, The Hitcher, The Killer, Total Recall

PM Entertainment and the Art of Rip-offs With Razzmatazz

February 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at 90’s video action specialists PM Entertainment and a penchant for enjoyable knock offs… I’ve oft shared my fondness for the work of PM Entertainment, headed by Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin. Their company were prolific through the 90’s in producing straight to cable/video movies (predominantly action) that seemed […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: anna nicole smith, Cyber Tracker, Cynthia Rothrock, Dark Breed, Don Wilson, Gary Daniels, Joe Lara, Josepth Merhi, Lorenzo Lamas, PM entertainment, rage, Recoil, Richard Pepin, Riot, Skyscraper, Steel Frontier

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