Tom Jolliffe casts a slightly MCU-fatigued eye over the catalogue to provide a Top 10 list… I’m sure you’ll have seen many a ranking list or top 10 focused on the MCU. There have been so many films now since Iron Man kicked off the whole shebang that they’ve been separated into phases. We’re coming […]
Babylon: A Dazzling Throwback to Classic Cinema?
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Babylon, the star-studded upcoming film from Damien Chazelle, and wonders if it might be a movie like they used to make… When Martin Scorsese bemoaned an evolution in cinema that was leading to a dearth in the cinematic style of old, he caused something of an uproar. Increasingly, others have […]
The Films of 1992: A Great Year For Movies
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to 1992, a year full of breakouts, action spectacle, iconic soundtracks and more… In my retrospective delve into the year of 1982, I boldly claimed that it might have been the greatest year of film ever. As I thrust my time machine forward a decade, I wandered the cinematic […]
Movie Review – Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday (2022)
Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday, 2022. Directed by the Kirby Brothers. Starring Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, Perry Benson, Sarah Chang, George Fouracres, Flaminia Cinque, Andreas Nguyen and Beau Fowler. SYNOPSIS: The Accident Man, is back and this time he must beat the top assassins in the world, to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save […]
God, Gangsters and Robbie Coltrane: Nuns on the Run and The Pope Must Die!
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the late great Robbie Coltrane’s duo of farcical Catholic capers, Nuns on the Run and The Pope Must Die… The late great Robbie Coltrane’s passing came as a sad surprise to many. Coltrane’s comedic talents were offset by an ability to play tough characters, or those with a hearty dose […]
Twenty Years Back: The Films of 2002
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 20 years to look at the cinematic landscape of 2002… I come bearing bad news. 2002 was not a couple of years ago. No, it was 20 years ago now. I feel very old now in the wake of such a revelation. Has cinema changed much in those two decades? Looking […]
The Maestros of 80s Action Movie Music
Tom Jolliffe looks at a golden period in action movie scores and some of the maestros who composed them… What is the golden age of action movies? This is of course a rhetorical question. It’s undoubtedly the 1980s. A time of such unique flair and style. Big, bold, brash, silly, sometimes ironic. It was a […]
The Essential Jackie Chan Movies
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential Jackie Chan films… Jackie Chan is the master of physical action comedy. His popularity has spread across the world from Hong Kong and China, to the west (even after early false starts to launch him as a star in the States). In the mid-80’s he was part of a […]
The Problem with Cobra Kai Season 5
Cobra Kai is being binge-watched across the world, and Tom Jolliffe has a bone to pick with the show’s fifth season. SPOILERS FOLLOW… Cobra Kai Season 5 has burst onto the scene. Season 4 ended brilliantly, leaving me salivating for what was to come. I hate that season-to-season wait, but oddly the gap between seasons […]
Mia Goth: The One to Watch
Tom Jolliffe looks at Mia Goth’s compelling career so far and the promise of what lies ahead… From the outset, Mia Goth was born into an interesting fusion. Canadian and Brazilian parents, she was raised in the UK, occasionally diverting back to her parents’ native homelands during her upbringing. A full name like Mia Gypsy […]
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