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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

Eight Essential Sci-Fi Prison Movies

September 15, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to get locked up with the key thrown away as we look at these essential sci-fi prison movies… Some sub-genres seem to prove hugely popular. Whether it’s the Die Hard copycat or an Alien riff, some concepts lend themselves to being rejigged, reheated and served as new. There are prison movies which have […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien 3, cube, Escape Plan, Fortress, No Escape, Spoiler, The Running Man, Wedlock

The Blockbuster Comic Book Movie Problem: The Box Office Cliff Edge

August 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Thunderbolts*, Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps did everything right, so what went wrong with this year’s comic book movie blockbusters at the box office? Hollywood has spent the past half a decade in a post-COVID era, facing an exacerbation of a problem that was already well in motion. Fewer people, particularly younger generations, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Avatar, Avatar: Fire and Ash, DC, dc studios, DC Universe, Disney, James Gunn, lilo and stitch, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, sinners, Superman, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts, Weapons

The Essential Pamela Anderson Movies

August 10, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

With her triumphant renaissance in full swing, it’s time to look at the essential Pamela Anderson movies… Hollywood loves a comeback story. Whether they’ve reappeared after five, ten, or twenty years in the wilderness, some stars make unexpected and triumphant returns. All sorts of once bright lights on a decline have suddenly found themselves thrust […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Barb Wire, Baywatch, Naked Souls, Pam & Tommy, Pamela Anderson, Pamela: A Love Story, Raw Justice, The Last Showgirl, The Naked Gun

10 Great Cult B-Movies of the VHS Era

August 5, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Lower your brow and grab the popcorn as it’s time to look at ten unmissable cult B-movie gems of the VHS era… The point of the humble B-movie (which has effectively now become the A-movie as far as mainstream tent pole cinema is concerned), was  -without too many airs or graces or deep psychological study […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: dead heat, Deathstalker II, Dollman, Pumpkinhead, Retroactive, Scanner Cop, The Hidden, The Stepfather, the stuff, Trancers

Feel the Heat: Uncomfortably Hot and Sweaty Films

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Wipe the sweat from your brow and wring out your sodden shirt with these ten uncomfortably hot and sweaty films… I’m sitting here typing in the middle of a rare UK heatwave. We’re a nation more accustomed to four seasons in one day, who prefer to prepare for the cold with carpets and adequate heating, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Angel Heart, Barton Fink, Body Heat, Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, the surfer, Wake In Fright, woman in the dunes

Incredible 21st Century Films You May Have Missed

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Keeping things post-millennium, here are 18 incredible movies from the 21st century that may have flown under your radar… The New York Times recently ran an opinion poll from both 500 industry folk and its readers to compile a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century. Among those listed are a number […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Fantastic Woman, a girl walks home alone at night, A Quiet Girl, A White White Day, Boy, Burning, frailty, Holy Spider, Joyland, La Chimera, Long Day's Journey Into Night, loveless, Parasite, Personal Shopper, Shiva Baby, Super Happy Forever, Teachers lounge, The Piano Teacher

8 Great Recent Films You Really Need To See

July 7, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe shines a light on eight recent movies that are well worth adding to your watch list… You took the kids to shout “Chicken Jockey” and trash screen one at your local multiplex. Maybe you took them to see Lilo & Stitch. A week after release and with great word of mouth, you went […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bound, bring them down, Cloud, Crossing, On Falling, The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Girl with the Needle, The Last Showgirl

Can Edgar Wright conquer America with The Running Man?

July 6, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on The Running Man, and whether it will be the film to finally see Edgar Wright breaking America… Much like Oasis and Robbie Williams, Edgar Wright’s attempts to translate UK status and acclaim to the glitzy world of the US industry haven’t gone entirely to plan. He’s certainly got more name recognition than […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Baby Driver, Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz, Last Night in Soho, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Stephen King, The Running Man

Is Denis Villeneuve the Best Choice to Direct Bond?

June 27, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Suddenly the James Bond franchise has momentum with Denis Villeneuve getting the director’s job, but is he the right choice to relaunch 007? After years of waiting for tangible news, aside from a change of ownership, we’re suddenly hit with the confirmation that the next iteration of 007 has a director. That man is Denis […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Amazon, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Bond 26, cary joji fukunaga, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Golden Eye, James Bond, Josh Oconnor, Marc Foster, Martin Campbell, Moonraker, Pierce Brosnan, Prisoners, Quantum of Solace, Roger Moore, Sam Mendes, Sean Connery, Skyfall, Spectre, Timothy Dalton

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