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The Essential Paranoia Films

July 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up an essential selection of paranoia films…Who likes a good hearty dose of paranoia? Okay, in real life it’s not too enjoyable. In cinema? It’s a gift for film-makers looking to tap into that feeling within their audience. There are a lot of great examples of paranoia-themed films, and when a masterful […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blow Out, Cutters Way, Eyes Wide Shut, Les Diaboliques, Marathon Man, Pi, Repulsion, The Conversation, The Machinist, The Thing

The End of an Era? Harrison Ford: The Great Blockbuster Headliner

July 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With the release of the fifth and likely final Indiana Jones movie starring Harrison Ford, could this be the Hollywood legend’s final bow as the blockbuster headline act..?The cinema landscape has evolved so much in the past few decades. Movie stars used to rule the world, and even at the dawn of the event blockbuster […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, indiana jones and the dial of destiny, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, the fugitive

Microbudget Horror Movies You Have To See

June 24, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As Flickering Myth launches into the world of microbudget film production, we look at five recent microbudget horror movies you need to see…Making movies is tough. Right now the differential between the big studio pictures and what is below seems to be huge. It’s a near-unjumpable chasm between $5 million budgets and that limited pool […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amber Doig-Thorne, Charlie Steeds, Craving, Geoff Fowler, Ghost Crew, Jason Horton, Lawrence Fowler, Lawrie Brewster, Megan Tremethick, Michaela Longden, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Scott Jeffrey, The Ghost Within, Tom Staunton, Werewolf Castle, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

Superman III: An Underrated Entry in the Man of Steel Canon?

June 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Superman III, the much-maligned third outing for Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, released 40 years ago today…In more recent times it’s gained in cult appeal, but for long-time fans of Christopher Reeve’s original run of films, Superman III’s saving grace tended to be the fact that it wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Christopher Reeve, DC, Richard Lester, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughan, Superman, Superman 3

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 classic […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, 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 all […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, 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 huge […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, 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 the […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, 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 me […]

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

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