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Lifeforce: A Film Only Cannon Could Have Made

October 25, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

40 years on from its release, Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon… What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I’ve written about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: cannon films, Lifeforce, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Tobe Hooper

Why the 80s and 90s Were the Most Enjoyable Era for Movies

October 22, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We look back at the 80s and 90s and tell you why it was the most enjoyable era for movie audiences… Gather round, children, it’s time for me to take a misty-eyed look back at a time I grew up, which probably represents the glory years of cinema pleasure. Sure, before the 1980s and 90s, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Back to the Future, Blockbuster, Drew Struzan, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Masters of the Universe, Psycho, Renato Casaro, Silence of the Lambs, Speed, Star Wars

8 Great Films with Incompetent Heroes

October 21, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s no easy ride for these incompetent and bumbling movie heroes… The protagonist of a film usually has some goal they need to achieve, and for the most part, even if they begin way over their head, by the time the film ends, they’ve solved everything and wrapped up the case using their wits and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blue Ruin, Dog Day Afternoon, Marathon Man, Memories of Murder, Naked Gun, One Battle After Another, The Big Lebowski, The Nice Guys

10 Horror Movies Ripe for a Modern Remake

October 19, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten horror movies that could benefit from a modern remake… A topic that can spark a lot of controversial thoughts in the horror community is remakes. There are people who inherently dislike remakes, and there are folks who embrace some of the remakes we’ve seen over the decades. Horror remakes don’t always […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: Disturbing Behaviour, Event Horizon, Ganja & Hess, night of the comet, Prom Night, tales from the crypt: demon knight, The Birds, The People Under the Stairs, tourist trap, valentine

Is Paul Thomas Anderson the Best Hollywood Director of the 21st Century?

October 13, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

With a critically acclaimed new film to add to a resume full of them, is Paul Thomas Anderson the best Hollywood director of this century? Some great directors consistently deliver work that’s never less than compelling. They might also craft a film that is widely acclaimed or wins numerous awards during the statuette season. There’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, Licorice Pizza, Magnolia, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Punch Drunk Love, The Master, There Will be Blood

10 Must-See Horror Movies Guaranteed to Make You Squirm

October 15, 2025 by Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki with ten great horror movies that are guaranteed to make you uncomfortable… Contrary to what some might think, horror is sometimes meant to make you uncomfortable and uneasy about what’s happening. We as viewers are occasionally supposed to be squirming in our seats or feeling extraordinarily nervous if we’re watching these films at […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Top Stories, Vanessa Maki Tagged With: [REC], Capture Kill Release, Megalomaniac, Milk & Serial, mother!, Starry Eyes, The Boy Behind the Door, The Devil's Candy, The House of the Devil, The Wailing

The Villainy of Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman

June 14, 2025 by Ricky Church

Ricky Church looks forward to Nicholas Hoult’s portrayal of Lex Luthor… We are now a month away from the release of James Gunn’s anticipated Superman, a film set to relaunch the DC universe on film with David Corenswet as Superman/Clark Kent and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. One member of the cast we had not […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Ricky Church Tagged With: David Corenswet, DC, dc studios, DC Universe, James Gunn, Lex Luthor, Nicholas Hoult, Superman

10 Must See Sci-Fi Movies from 1995

October 9, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe takes a trip back to 1995 with ten essential sci-fi recommendations… Sci-fi movies offer a glimpse into dazzling futures, alternate presents and much more. Sure, these Nostradamus-ian predictions don’t always come true. 2015 didn’t bring us flying cars or Jaws 19. That said, we must be approaching that number with Jurassic […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Monkeys, fist of the north star, Ghost in the Shell, Johnny Mnemonic, Michael Madsen, Screamers, Species, Steel Frontier, Strange Days, Tank Girl, The City of Lost Children, Twelve Monkey's

Hot Days of Horror: The Best Summer Horror Movies

July 7, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno gets ready for the summer movie season with some hot horror… The grills are firing up, the swimsuits are coming out, and the hot days are here. While many want to spend their days in the sun, some will cozy up at home in the cool A/C. We’ve cooked up a collection of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: I Know What You Did Last Summer, It, Jaws, Midsommar, Sleepaway Camp, Summer of 84, the ruins, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, X

Ralph Bakshi: A Forgotten Pioneer

October 6, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson takes a deep dive into the career of pioneering animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi… This is only tangentially related to the topic at hand but I’m going to draw this parallel anyway; when the great American author Hubert Selby Jr died and a documentary was made about him and one of the talking heads […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Simon Thompson, Television, Top Stories Tagged With: american pop, cool world, coonskin, fritz the cat, heavy traffic, Ralph Bakshi, Spider-Man, The Lord of the Rings, The Mighty Heroes, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Wizards

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