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No Effects, No Set Pieces, Just Exceptional Acting: Glengarry Glen Ross Revisited

October 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Released on this day in 1992, Tom Jolliffe looks back at Glengarry Glen Ross, a masterclass in screen acting… The lights go down, the film rolls and everyone in the cinema (except THAT guy) go silent in anticipation of what’s to come. The film must then grip its audience. The cohesion between writer, director and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jack Lemmon, James Foley, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Spacey

10 Essential Vampire Movies To Sink Your Teeth Into

October 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Coinciding with the release of the new Salem’s Lot [read our review here], here are ten essential vampire movies to sink your teeth into… Nosferatu (1922) This iconic piece of cinema remains timeless and its visual influence can still be seen today. If you’ve seen anything from Tim Burton, you’ve seen run off from films […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: a girl walks home alone at night, Cronos, Dracula, Fright Night, From Dusk Till Dawn, Let The Right One In, Near Dark, Nosferatu, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Hunger, The Lost Boys, Vampires Kiss

Can Aaron Pierre Become The Next Big Action Star?

September 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

After an impressive breakout turn in Rebel Ridge, could Aaron Pierre become cinema’s next big action hero? One of the most high-profile Netflix originals hit the streaming service earlier in September accompanied by excellent reviews and shot straight to the top of the streamer’s charts. There was a pretty firm consensus from critics and fans […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aaron Pierre, Brother, Mufasa: The Lion King, netflix, rebel ridge

The Kids Are Alright! Why Gen Z Cinephiles Are Cinema’s Last Hope

September 15, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Gen Z takes a lot of heat for the current apathy toward mainstream movies that divide audiences and fail at the box office. But it’s not their fault…  We’ve had some box office dynamite this year, with audiences flocking to see Deadpool’s latest outing and the Xenomorphs up to their old tricks again. Generally, though, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aftersun, deadpool and wolverine, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Letterboxd, longlegs, saltburn, Star Wars

15 Movies To Watch On Tubi UK

September 15, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

The UK now gets an opportunity to ride the Tubi rollercoaster and we give you 15 gems to watch from underrated, undiscovered and forgotten to the enjoyably bad… Without a huge deal of fanfare, Tubi opened its doors in the UK recently to try and capture the kind of audience pull it’s managed over in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 2099: The Soldier Protocol, A Vigilante, Akeelah and the Bee, Assault On Devils Island, Black Cobra 2, Bloodfist, body melt, Boogie Boy, Braven, Chopping Mall, Death Fighter, Dinosaur Hotel II, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, equalizer 2000, Frog Dreaming, grizzly, Jurassic Island, Mega Twister, PREY, Sabotage, Searching, Shattered Glass, space raiders, Split Second, The Arrival, The Ghost Within, The Love Witch, the sword and the sorcerer, The Vanished, tubi

The Essential Danny Elfman Film Scores

September 5, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

With the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice [read our review here], it’s time to look at the inimitable Danny Elfman’s essential work… Some composers are truly unique, leaving a body of work that listeners can immediately identify as theirs within a few bars. Whether you can spot a Williams, a Zimmer or a Goldsmith, these conjurers […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Simple Plan, Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Darkman, Edward Scissorhands, Good Will Hunting, hellboy II: the golden army, men in black, Nightbreed

10 Iconic Movie Weapons Every Millennial Kid Wanted

September 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A cool movie weapon makes all the difference in genre films and we look at ten movie weapons every millennial kid wanted… Action and sci-fi films and their relentless battles between good and evil have one consistent. Weaponry is involved and whether it’s the use of real-life weapons or creations for your film, making it […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan the Barbarian, Dolph Lundgren, Evil Dead, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, Krull, Masters of the Universe, Predator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Robin Hood, Star Wars, Sylvestor Stallone, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Sirens from Space: Species and Under The Skin

August 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe double bills Species and Under The Skin… The sexy siren, luring men to their inevitable doom by taking on the form of a gorgeous woman. Like cats to catnip, the men salivate their way to demise. In one corner we have Species, the tale of a scientific splicing of human and alien DNA […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Glazer, Lifeforce, Marg Helgenberger, Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Roger Donaldson, Scarlett Johansson, Species, Under the Skin

Darkman: Revisiting Sam Raimi’s cult 1990 superhero movie

August 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe revisits Sam Raimi’s Darkman, released on this day back in 1990… Hot on the heels of Batman, Sam Raimi delivered Darkman unto the world. Raimi wouldn’t become synonymous with iconic comic book hero films until doing the game changing Spider-Man trilogy, but Darkman , whilst an original creation from Raimi’s mind, is a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Danny Elfman, Darkman, Frances McDormand, Liam Neeson, Sam Raimi

Revisiting Timothy Dalton’s Underappreciated James Bond

August 6, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

On this day in 1986, Timothy Dalton was announced as the new James Bond. We look back over his underrated stint as 007… Who’s your favourite Bond? Sometimes this question ends up revealing more about your generation than anything else. I’ll state it though, that I’m a Connery man, even though he was before my […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: John Glen, Licence to Kill, Maryam d'Abo, The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton

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