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Tom Jolliffe

Lifeforce: A Film Only Cannon Could Have Made

October 25, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

40 years on from its release, Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon… What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I’ve written about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: cannon films, Lifeforce, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Tobe Hooper

Why the 80s and 90s Were the Most Enjoyable Era for Movies

October 22, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We look back at the 80s and 90s and tell you why it was the most enjoyable era for movie audiences… Gather round, children, it’s time for me to take a misty-eyed look back at a time I grew up, which probably represents the glory years of cinema pleasure. Sure, before the 1980s and 90s, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Back to the Future, Blockbuster, Drew Struzan, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Masters of the Universe, Psycho, Renato Casaro, Silence of the Lambs, Speed, Star Wars

8 Great Films with Incompetent Heroes

October 21, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s no easy ride for these incompetent and bumbling movie heroes… The protagonist of a film usually has some goal they need to achieve, and for the most part, even if they begin way over their head, by the time the film ends, they’ve solved everything and wrapped up the case using their wits and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blue Ruin, Dog Day Afternoon, Marathon Man, Memories of Murder, Naked Gun, One Battle After Another, The Big Lebowski, The Nice Guys

10 Must-See Comedy Movies From 1995

October 19, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s laughs aplenty with these ten essential comedy films from 1995… When life gives you lemons and you have no clue how to make lemonade, sometimes you need to brighten your mood another way. Step forward the humble comedy film, where you’ll hopefully spend the best part of 90 minutes laughing until your ribs ache. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bad Boys, Billy Madison, Clueless, Friday, Kicking and Screaming, Mallrats, To Die For, Tommy Boy, Toy Story, Welcome to the Dollhouse

Is Paul Thomas Anderson the Best Hollywood Director of the 21st Century?

October 13, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

With a critically acclaimed new film to add to a resume full of them, is Paul Thomas Anderson the best Hollywood director of this century? Some great directors consistently deliver work that’s never less than compelling. They might also craft a film that is widely acclaimed or wins numerous awards during the statuette season. There’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, Licorice Pizza, Magnolia, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Punch Drunk Love, The Master, There Will be Blood

10 Must See Sci-Fi Movies from 1995

October 9, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe takes a trip back to 1995 with ten essential sci-fi recommendations… Sci-fi movies offer a glimpse into dazzling futures, alternate presents and much more. Sure, these Nostradamus-ian predictions don’t always come true. 2015 didn’t bring us flying cars or Jaws 19. That said, we must be approaching that number with Jurassic […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Monkeys, fist of the north star, Ghost in the Shell, Johnny Mnemonic, Michael Madsen, Screamers, Species, Steel Frontier, Strange Days, Tank Girl, The City of Lost Children, Twelve Monkey's

The Essential Andrzej Zulawski Films

October 5, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at the underappreciated visionary Andrzej Zulawski and his essential movies… When you think of cinema’s visionaries, plenty of names spring immediately to mind, including Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, David Lean and Zack Snyder (obviously). Great auteurs of the silver screen with an innate ability […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Andrzej Zulawski, Boris Godounov, cosmos, On the Silver Globe, Possession, The Devil, The Most Important Thing: Love, The Third Part of the Night

10 Essential Ninja Movies

October 2, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Get your shurikens and masks at the ready, because it’s time for ten essential ninja movies… They glide through trees and leap between buildings. They blend with the shadows. They wear really cool outfits and fight each other with swords and shuriken. Back in the golden 8 and 16-bit eras, there were innumerable and awesome […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: american ninja, beverly hills ninja, Enter the Ninja, New York Ninja, Ninja, ninja assassin, Ninja III: The Domination, ninja: shadow of a tear, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Hunted, The Killer Elite

The Definitive Top 10 Alfred Hitchcock Movies

September 28, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Alfred Hitchcock was an undoubted master of cinema; here are his best works… When you’re a master of cinema with a resume that is stuffed with incredible movies, sometimes the hardest thing for fans to agree upon is how to rank them. It’s easy if you’re looking at Richard Kelly, for example, whose best by […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder, frenzy, marnie, north by northwest, Psycho, rear window, Rebecca, rope, shadow of a doubt, Strangers on a Train, Suspicion, The 39 Steps, The Birds, The Lady Vanishes, The Lodger, the man who knew too much, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo

The Essential Robert Redford Movies

September 20, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at the essential movies from the late, great Robert Redford… A Hollywood legend has left us, and few have had the kind of wide-ranging and incredible career of Robert Redford. The easy smile, poster boy looks and effortless charisma made Redford an A-list star, but his creative talents and methodical […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A River Runs Through It, All is Lost, All The President's Men, Brubaker, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Jeremiah Jones, Lions For Lambs, Ordinary People, Quiz Show, Sneakers, The Natural, The Old Man and the Gun, The Sting, Three Days of the Condor

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