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10 Essential Action Movies of 1996

March 4, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s stunts aplenty with spinning kicks and punches, as we travel back to 1996 with these essential action movies… The action movie landscape of 1996 was pretty interesting. It saw a noticeable shift in the genre, stepping noticeably away from the previous decade and early 90s reliance on muscle-bound heroes. The beefy big boys like […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Black Mask, Broken Arrow, Daylight, Eraser, Executive Decision, First Strike, Glimmar Man, Maximum Risk, Mission: Impossible, Riot, Sabotage, Silent Trigger, Sworn To Justice, the long kiss goodnight, The Quest, The Rock, The Sweeper, White Tiger

Is AI About to Make Creatives Irrelevant?

February 16, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Are we at a crossroads with AI, or already way down the road leading to the death of the creative? You can’t halt progress, and when money is being fired at an industry with the velocity of the Death Star’s planet-destroying laser, then it inevitably feels like said industry is unstoppable. Despite everything the Terminator […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: canyon of the dead, Darren Aronofsky, Disney, Late Night With the Devil, On this Day: 1776, Roger Avary, Val Kilmer

10 Great Forgotten Gems of the 1980s You Need To See

February 6, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten great forgotten gems from the 1980s that need added to your watch list… The 1980s was an eclectic melting pot of cinema. Blockbusters and franchises were becoming a big thing. The success of home video also gave films a place to succeed beyond the cinema screens. Cinema fandom has always clustered […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Avenging Force, Body Double, Nighthawks, One Deadly Summer, One From the Heart, Opera, Roadgames, Running Scared, The Man With Two Brains, the wraith

10 Essential Movies from 1976

January 27, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at a great year for cinema with ten essential movies from 1976… A stellar year in cinema can sometimes be judged by the strength of the Best Picture nominees. Then you could look again in a decade or two and see which films have accrued a loyal cult following and been […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 1900, All The President's Men, Assault on Precinct 13, Carrie, Death Among the Pines, God Told Me To, In the Realm of the Senses, Kings of the Road, Marathon Man, network, Obsession, Rocky, Taxi Driver, The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the omen, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Tenant

10 Great Cult B-Movies of the VHS Era

January 24, 2026 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, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: dead heat, Deathstalker II, Dollman, Pumpkinhead, Retroactive, Scanner Cop, The Hidden, The Stepfather, the stuff, Trancers

The Essential Action Movies of 1986

January 18, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We journey back 40 years (yes… really) with the essential action movies of 1986… In an era when a half-decent action film is becoming rarer than the dodo, and practical stunts and effects even more so, I often find myself venturing back to action films of yesteryear. Some of the very best of years gone […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Better Tomorrow, Aliens, Armour of God, Avenging Force, Big Trouble in Little China, Black Moon Rising, Cobra, Firewalker, Highlander, Raw Deal, Righting Wrongs, The Delta Force, the wraith, Wanted: Dead or Alive

10 Deep Movies You Might Have Missed

December 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

There’s no simple escapism here; it’s time to get deep with these ten great, thought-provoking films that may have flown under your radar… It’s time to get deep. The beauty of cinema is just how eclectic and wide-ranging your choice of viewing is. You want simple escapism, you’re covered. You want gruelling depictions of war, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Harvest, How to Have Sex, Maborosi, Marie's Song, Moving, Nostalghia, Only the River Flows, Perfect Days, Secret Sunshine, The Juniper Tree

2025 in Film: What Did We Learn?

December 28, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a look back at 2025 in film and ponder what we’ve learned… 2025 is drawing to a close, and we can get a sense of how things have gone and what we’ve learned from cinema this year. It’s fair to say there have been surprises and some trends continuing, with others […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: bring her back, DC, DC Universe, Death Among the Pines, F1, Josh Oconnor, lilo and stitch, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Minecraft, No Other Choice, One Battle After Another, Oppenheimer, Sentimental Value, sinners, Super Happy Forever, Superman, The Baby in the Basket, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts, Train Dreams, wake up dead man: a knives out mystery, Weapons, zootopia 2

Returning to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

December 25, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

For three consecutive years it was a huge Christmas big screen event, so how does The Lord of the Rings trilogy hold up today? Does it sometimes feel like the Christmas season can lack a really standout, all-consuming big screen event? Over the years, there have been some huge movies drop over the Christmas holidays […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen

10 Essential Cult Classic 80s Movies You Need To See

December 21, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten great cult classic 1980s movies you need to see… The cult film. From the obscure gems with an undying loyalty from their small following, to the mass cults who followed Star Wars back in the 80s. Sometimes a film just strikes a chord and has a certain unique charm or imperfect […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: After Hours, Lifeforce, Miracle Mile, Repo Man, Streets of Fire, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Hidden, The Paperhouse, The Quiet Earth, To Live and Die in L.A.

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