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Tom Jolliffe

A look back at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser… For a good few years, rumours of a Hellraiser reboot have been on the table. The whispers and near starts have persisted for a long time along with a number of other false starting reboots like Highlander and The Crow. Now it appears that HBO […]

Quit While You’re Ahead: Why Bad Boys 4 is Too Much of a Good Thing

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the prospect of Bad Boys 4 after the success of Bad Boys For Life… Bad Boys For Life, a long awaited third entry in the franchise, came out earlier this year to not only the best reviews of the series, but a surprisingly strong opening weekend on its way to almost […]

The Greatest Action Directors of All Time

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the greatest action directors of all time… The action genre has never particularly had the greatest respect associated with it. Maybe there’s a feeling that they’re dramatically anaemic, or sometimes intellectually inferior, but this isn’t always the case. It’s a genre that doesn’t always have consistent specialists, because certain directors who […]

What Happened To Alex Proyas?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career, rise and fall of Alex Proyas… Born to Greek parents in Egypt and subsequently raised in Australia, you could say that Alex Proyas has an interesting background. He started, as a lot of film directors have, in music videos (working with the likes of INXS and Sting). To many […]

The Greatest Director of All Time?

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Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]

I Don’t Get It: The Films We’re Supposed To Love But Don’t

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Tom Jolliffe looks at when films receive almost universal praise from critics and audiences, and an expectation that you should also love them. It’s not always the case… The year is 2001. At this point I’ve already seen a few David Lynch films. I’d never (still haven’t) got round to Twin Peaks. I sort of […]

Movie Review – Debt Collectors (2020)

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Debt Collectors,2020. Directed by Jesse V. Johnson. Starring Scott Adkins, Louis Mandylor, Vladimir Kulich, Vernon Wells, Marina Sirtis, Mayling Ng and Ski Carr. SYNOPSIS: A pair of debt collectors are thrust into an explosively dangerous situation, chasing down various lowlifes while also evading a vengeful kingpin. It seems about that time again. It’s time for […]

Al Pacino at 80: One of the all time greats

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of Al Pacino as he turns 80… Ready your best Al Pacino impression. We’ve all got them. Those usually tend to be Al at his explosive, unrestrained best. Maybe it’s one of several scenes in Heat, or something in his scenery chomping brilliance in Scent of A Woman. […]

A Post-Pandemic Film Industry

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Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to how the landscape of film may change in the next few years… The entire film world, top to bottom, across most of the world has hit pause as we deal with more pressing life affecting matters. Studios have delayed releases and productions. We’ve seen a number of films switch from […]