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The 90s VR Movie: The Lawnmower Man had a lot to answer for

June 14, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the wave of straight to video Virtual Reality films that followed in the wake of The Lawnmower Man in the mid to late ’90s… The idea of virtual reality worlds has been something of a sci-fi staple for many decades. Cronenberg toyed with the concept in Videodrome. Philip K Dick’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Albert Pyun, Arcade, brainscan, Brett Leonard, Cybertech P.D, Expect No Mercy, Grid Runners, Hologram Man, Sci-Fighter, Strange Days, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, Total Recall, videodrome, Virtual Assassin, Virtual Combat, virtuosity

Ranking Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Post-Governator Starring Roles

June 4, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

10 years since Arnold made his full return to acting after a stint as Governor of California, we rank his major projects from worst to best… In the 80s and 90s at the height of video store popularity, I was but a youth watching films that I wasn’t supposed to be watching. I lapped up […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aftermath, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Escape Plan, fubar, Killing Gunter, Maggie, Sabotage, terminator Gensisys, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Last Stand

The Film Feud of the 90s: Steven Seagal vs Jean-Claude Van Damme

June 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the film feud to end them all: Seagal vs Van Damme… The 90’s begin. Action cinema is at the height of popularity, headed up by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, with Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson also throwing their hats into the mix. The video boom would contribute to a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal

The Essential 90s Action Movies

May 28, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Following our deep dive into 1980s action cinema, lock and load for our list of essential 1990s action movies… The 1990s brought about a shift in the action genre. As the decade progressed there seemed to be shift from the 80s icons into the likes of Nicolas Cage and Keanu Reeves becoming action stars. Likewise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Assassins, Bad Boys, Blade, Cliffhanger, Crying Freeman, Demolition Man, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Drive, Eraser, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, Marked For Death, Out for Justice, Passenger 57, Point Break, Rapid Fire, Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Speed, Stone Cold, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Last Boy Scout, The Matrix, Timecop, True Lies, Under Siege, Universal Soldier

Indie Horror Filmmaking: Creating The Baby in The Basket – From Script to Green Light!

May 20, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

A look inside scripting The Baby in the Basket, Flickering Myth’s first foray into Film Production… The week so far has been up and down but perfectly encapsulating life as an indie screenwriter who in the midst of an insanely busy spring,  has been co-handling  a Kickstarter campaign that has thankfully seen us hit its […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alexandra Faye Sadeghian, Amber Doig-Thorne, Annabelle Lanyon, Elle O'Hara, Michaela Longden, Nathan Shepka, Paul Barber, The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe

Why Steven Yeun is one of the best in the business right now

May 7, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the career of Steven Yeun, the supporting actor who is suddenly blooming as a leading man and proving to be one of the best in the business…   Listen up, people. If you don’t think Steven Yeun is one of the best actors in the business right now, then you and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: BEEF, Burning, Minari, Steven Yeun, The Walking Dead

Exclusive Interview – Amber Doig-Thorne on Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey and The Baby in the Basket

May 6, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Amber Doig-Thorne joins us to discuss her recent role in the monster hit Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and her role in Flickering Myth’s upcoming horror The Baby in the Basket… A woman of many talents, Amber Doig-Thorne is an up-and-coming actress, a presenter, a comedienne and an influencer among other things. Having starred […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alien Invasion, Amber Doig-Thorne, Dying Breed, Mr Hyde: The Untold Story, Run from Hell, The Baby in the Basket, The Haunted Studio, The Little Ones, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

20 Years Back: The Films of 2003

May 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a journey twenty years back in time to look at the cinematic landscape of 2003… Another year passes and another anniversary comes around. 2003 was 20 years ago. 20 years!!! Take a stiff drink people and come along with me to revisit a cinematic year that was stuffed with so so […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 2 Fast 2 Furious, 21 Grams, A Man Apart, American Wedding, Bad Boys 2, Bad Santa, Beyond Re-Animator, Biker Boyz, Bruce Almighty, Daredevil, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Dogville, Finding Nemo, Freddy vs. Jason, Gigli, How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Identity, johnny english, Kangaroo Jack, Lost In Translation, Memories of Murder, Mystic River, Old School, Oldboy, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Open Range, OUt of Time, Paycheck, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Return of the King, Runaway Jury, scary movie 3, Shanghai Knights, Shattered Glass, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Brown Bunny, The Cat in the Hat, The House of Sand and Fog, The Last Samurai, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, The Rundown, The Triplets of Belleville, Underworld, Wrong Turn, X2: X-Men United

Indie Horror Filmmaking: The birth of The Baby in the Basket

April 29, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As Flickering Myth steps into the world of indie filmmaking, Tom Jolliffe details how and why The Baby in the Basket was born… As a screenwriter working in the indie filmmaking world for five years, I made a conscious decision late last year to pull away from hired commissions (slightly) and shift my focus more […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alexandra Faye Sadeghian, Amber Doig-Thorne, Annabelle Lanyon, Elle O'Hara, Firenado, Flickering Myth, gary collinson, Michaela Longden, Nathan Shepka, Paul Barber, Renegades, The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe, war of the worlds: the attack, When Darkness Falls

Is John Wick the Best Action Franchise of All Time?

April 16, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

In the wake of John Wick: Chapter 4, we look at whether Keanu’s iconic franchise has now become the best action series of all time… What is the best action franchise? Which series of three or more films have the most consistent levels of quality? It’s pretty hard to look beyond John Wick, which has […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Die Hard, fast & furious, James Bond, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mad Max, Mission: Impossible

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