Louis Fletcher revisits Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy… Now available on the horror streaming service Shudder, Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses is a welcome return from the man many thought to have retired. Marking the maestro’s return to the giallo, the genre he pioneered in the 1970s, such an effort inevitably invites comparison with his earlier works, […]
Is Disney Losing Its Magic?
Jed Wagman on whether Disney is losing its magic… If you took a survey asking people to name one word associated with Disney, the chances are that the word that crops up the most will be ‘magic’. Everything about The Walt Disney Company just feels magical. From the classic animated films all the way to […]
The true stories behind Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
We look at the true stories behind Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie… Part way through the filming of the first season of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, producers Haim Saban and Shuki Levy found themselves in a quandary. The show was pulling in huge ratings and the merchandise was flying off the shelves to the […]
Babylon: A Dazzling Throwback to Classic Cinema?
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Babylon, the star-studded upcoming film from Damien Chazelle, and wonders if it might be a movie like they used to make… When Martin Scorsese bemoaned an evolution in cinema that was leading to a dearth in the cinematic style of old, he caused something of an uproar. Increasingly, others have […]
1930’s-50’s: The Golden Age of Mystery Films
Tom Jolliffe on why the 30’s to 50’s were a golden age for mystery films… Whether it’s a murder mystery, or a cat and mouse quest to uncover a mystery, the 1930’s, up until the end of the 1950’s saw a prolific output of mystery films. Across world cinema, from Britain, to Hollywood to Europe […]
Die Hard with Stallone, Seagal and Van Damme
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to the 90’s, when three action icons made Die Hard riffs… It’s often said that the buff action specialists of the 80’s, who were larger than life and almost comically unstoppable were slowly pushed out of the forefront of the market by more every man heroes. Die Hard is often pinpointed […]
An Undeniable Action Classic: Road House
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the glorious action gem Road House… To quote movie aficionado Gordy LaSure (aka Richard Ayoade) from his book The Grip of Film (excellent read I shall add); “In the opening shot of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 magnum opus about the secret world of security guards, the camera frames a pair of […]
Cinema’s Groundbreakers – Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon
Continuing a look back at some of the most ground-breaking films in cinema, Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Rashomon… When looking back through the work of Akira Kurosawa, it would be difficult to pinpoint only one film as particularly ground-breaking. The truth his, through his early career in a post-war boom for Japanese cinema […]
2021: A Tom Cruise Space Odyssey
Tom Jolliffe on the prospect of Tom Cruise in space… 2021: A Tom Cruise Space Odyssey. We’d heard whispers in the last year but it would seem that plans are indeed afoot to send Tom Cruise up into space in the name of movie entertainment. Do we doubt Cruise will make launch? Absolutely not. Since […]
The Defining Works of Takeshi Kitano
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career defining works of legendary Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano… Fans of Japanese cinema will no doubt be familiar with the iconic Takeshi name. Sometimes billed by nickname as Beat Takeshi, or more retrospectively now as Takeshi Kitano, this actor and comedian (most notable during the late 80’s for the oddball […]
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