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The Essential Joe Dante Movies

December 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the essential works of the vastly underrated Joe Dante…  Some directors are rightly heralded as part of the grand pantheon of legendary directors. Thinking of Steven Spielberg immediately brings to mind an array of iconic masterpieces, not least some of his trailblazing films in the blockbuster realm.  Arriving in the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Innerspace, Joe Dante, Matinee, the 'burbs, The Hole, The Howling

The Best and Worst Christmas Movie Presents

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Christmas is a time for giving. Some presents are great, some are terrible, and we’ve seen plenty of both in Christmas movies… It’s the season of goodwill and sharing festive cheer (and beer) with friends and family. Big Red dumps his goods down the chimney and kids across the land open their presents in baited […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bad Santa, Die Hard, home alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, Santa Claus: The Movie

An Action Christmas: Ten Action Movies Set At Christmas

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up ten action films set at Christmas… It’s time to pull your cracker and polish your baubles. Yep, Christmas is upon us. This means a festive period with a watch list of decidedly Christmassy films. By law we’ll all be watching Home Alone, The Snowman and It’s a Wonderful Life. Christmas is […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christmas Rush, Cobra, Dark Angel, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Invasion USA, Lethal Weapon, Project Shadowchaser II, Riot, the long kiss goodnight

Dear Santa: We Want More Christmas Chronicles

December 21, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s Christmas season and we look back at Netlix’s The Christmas Chronicles movies and ponder if Kurt Russell will come down the chimney for another… The trees and decorations are up, you’re buying candy, cookies and booze ahead of the holidays and then rebuying it all when you eat and drink those intended gifts yourself. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Chris Columbus, Darby Camp, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, netflix, The Christmas Chronicles, The Christmas Chronicles 2, The Christmas Chronicles 3

10 Essential Films From 1974

December 8, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We go back half a century to offer up ten essential films from 1974… It’s incredible to think that it’s been half a century since the year 1974. As a year of cinematic offerings, it takes some beating too with a slew of incredible films. This was still right in the midst of Hollywood’s golden […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Woman Under the Influence, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Alice in the Cities, Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, Foxy Brown, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, The Sugarland Express, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

100 Years of Horror: Unmissable Movies from 1924 to 2024

December 8, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We’re diving back through a hundred years of horror and picking one unmissable film every ten years from 1924 to 2024… The history of cinema, from silent pictures to a stellar selection of horror films this year alone, shows that the horror genre has plenty to offer discerning viewers. If you want to add some gems […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Black Christmas, Blood and Black Lace, Dumplings, Godzilla, Immaculate, It Follows, longlegs, MaXXXine, New Nightmare, Nightwatch, Onibaba, Saw, The Baby in the Basket, The Black Cat, the company of wolves, The First Omen, The Hands of Orlac, The Masque of the Red Death, the substance, The Terminator, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Uninvited

Die Hard on a Shoestring: The Low Budget Die Hard Clones

December 7, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

As the festive season approaches and Die Hard becomes mandatory viewing, we take a look at some low budget clones… It may not have been the first of its kind, but when Die Hard came out, from the moment Bruce Willis entered the Nakatomi plaza, a new sub-genre all of its own was launched – […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blast, Breakaway, Command Performance, Die Hard, Irresistible Force, Shadowchaser, Skyscraper

Great Cult Films From 1984 You Might Have Missed

December 6, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to venture back to 1984 and take a look at some great cult films you may have missed… It’s fair to say that 1984 had a stellar selection of iconic films that became part of pop culture. Films like The Terminator, Ghostbusters and Amadeus are widely considered classics and well-known to general audiences.  […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Crimes of Passion, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Repo Man, Streets of Fire, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Element of Crime, The Toxic Avenger, Top Secret

10 Alien Franchise Rip-Offs That Are Worth A Watch

November 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

With Alien: Romulus currently terrorising audiences, here are ten Alien knock-offs to watch if you love the franchise…  The Alien franchise is a pretty eclectic mix, made up of distinct stabs at effectively the same concept repeated. A group of largely disposable humans are hunted and picked off by a fearsome alien creature (or multiple). […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien, Alien Predators, Alien: Romulus, Aliens, D.N.A, forbidden world, Leviathan, Pitch Black, Screamers, Species, starship troopers, Terminator II, xtro

Movie Review – The Bouncer (2024)

November 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

The Bouncer, 2024. Directed by Massimiliano Cerchi. Starring John Ozuna, Costas Mandylor, Rosmary Yaneva, Vincent Rivera, Nick Turturro, Gerald Okamura and Tayah Kansik. SYNOPSIS: In Romania, fugitive Frank Sharp takes a job as a bouncer. Saving a woman from abuse, he discovers she’s trafficked. They escape together but are relentlessly hunted. Opening with Frank Sharp (John […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Costas Mandylor, Gerald Okamura, John Ozuna, Massimiliano Cerchi, Nick Turturro, Rosmary Yavena, Simon Phillips, The Bouncer

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