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

October 2, 2023 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, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jack Lemmon, James Foley, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Spacey

A Bronx Tale: The Underappreciated Gangster Drama at 30

October 1, 2023 by admin

Hasitha Fernando on A Bronx Tale, which celebrates its 30th anniversary… To say the 90s put out some excellent gangster dramas is something of an understatement. But squeezed between the likes of Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Carlito’s Way and Casino is an underrated affair that has gone on to achieve a cult-like status amongst film aficionados […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: A Bronx Tale, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Robert De Niro

Ranking the essential Godzilla films released by Toho

October 1, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at the must-see Godzilla films from Toho… Fans of the Godzilla universe are eating quite well these days. In the next few years, there will be a new Toho film called Godzilla Minus One, a new Godzilla vs. Kong, a television series, and who knows what else. There’s an overabundance of things, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Godzilla, Godzilla Final Wars, Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, Shin Godzilla, The Return of Godzilla, toho

Bad Video Game Movies You Probably Forgot Existed

October 1, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno with a selection of forgotten video game movies… We all remember plenty of bad video game movies: Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros., House of the Dead, and almost every Resident Evil comes to mind. But if you venture back deeper into the catalog of video game movies, you’ll find some of the most […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Flickering Myth TV, Movies, News, Video Games Tagged With: doa: dead or alive, Far Cry, Max Payne, Postal, tekken, Warcraft, wing commander

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark at 35: The Birth of a Horror Icon

September 30, 2023 by EJ Moreno

As the film celebrates its 35th anniversary, EJ Moreno explores the birth of a horror icon with Elvira: Mistress of the Dark… To discuss the anniversary of the cult classic Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, we first need to look at the titular Elvira, played to chic perfection by Cassandra Peterson. Elvira was born Cassandra […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, Elvira Mistress of the Dark

The Prisoner: The Classic British TV Series Revisited

September 29, 2023 by admin

Hasitha Fernando revisits the classic British TV series The Prisoner… Television series come and go, often being mere products of their time, adhering predictably to ongoing trends and pretty much giving exactly what its audience wants. But every now and then, there appears a television series that breaks that mold, boldly playing against established norms […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, News, Television, Top Stories Tagged With: Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner

Essential Cult 80s Films You May Have Missed

September 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten great cult 80s films you may have missed… 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 (it’s now probably too huge, mainstream and widely spread across mediums to be considered cult). Sometimes […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe 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.

The Essential Cannon Films Scores

September 22, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the best musical scores from Cannon Films’ oeuvre… A good film score can elevate the picture and manipulate the viewer. It can illicit excitement, fear, intrigue, melancholy and more. It’s not uncommon for a film score to become just as legendary an aspect of a particular film as anything […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bloodsport, Hercules, Highlander, Invasion USA, King Solomons Mines, Lifeforce, Masters of the Universe, Runaway Train, Sahara, The Hitcher

Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 1980s British Horror

September 22, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at the curious case of 80s British Horror – an era of odd fusions, oddities, indulgent auteurs and flawed cult favourites… Think of those iconic periods in horror around the world. German expressionist horror of the 1920s and 30s, the Giallo boom of the 60s and 70s, British hammer horror […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alien, An American Werewolf in London, Annabelle Lanyon, Black Rainbow, dream demon, Hellraiser, inseminoid, Lifeforce, Maryam d'Abo, the company of wolves, The Hunger, The Lair of the White Worm, xtro

Ten Underrated Movies From 1988 That Deserve More Love

September 21, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1988 to look at ten underrated movies which deserve more love… It’s 2023 and that means that the cinematic year of 1988, stuffed with some classics and cult favourites like Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!) and Die Hard, was 35 years ago. Pick yourself up off the floor and shake the shock […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amsterdamned, As Tears Go By, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Frantic, Maniac Cop, Midnight Run, Miracle Mile, red heat, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Great Outdoors, The Lair of the White Worm, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Serpent and the Rainbow, They Live, Vice Versa, Waxwork, Young Einstein

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