Tom Jolliffe celebrates the career of the late Alan Parker, one of the finest directors to come out of Britain…It was saddening to hear of Alan Parker’s passing. He was a director with a number of iconic and essential cinematic works on his CV. In fact it’s a CV littered with so much quality film […]
Akira Kurosawa’s Police Procedural Films
Tom Jolliffe looks at two classic crime thrillers from Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog and High and Low…His reputation precedes him. Akira Kurosawa is one of the greatest directors of all time. A master of cinema, who took a degree of influence from old Hollywood gangster films and Westerns and refined them in his own inimitable […]
10 Essential Creature Features
Tom Jolliffe offers up 10 essential creature features…Who doesn’t love a good old creature feature? They still seem to be immensely popular, with recent reboots for the Jurassic Park and Godzilla franchises. That popularity in fact has been booming in the Asian markets in particular (whilst some of the recent big monster films have disappointed […]
The 2019 Movies Unfairly Overlooked During Awards Season
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at several of last year’s films overlooked by the major award ceremonies….As we find ourselves almost half way between the last Oscars and the next, with some uncertainty about just what we’ll see at the 2021 Academy Awards (after months of delayed films and closed cinemas), seems like a […]
A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)
Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)…When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, Jason […]
Cinema’s Groundbreakers – Jackie Chan’s Police Story
Continuing a series on groundbreaking cinema, Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Jackie Chan’s iconic Police Story…The Criterion Collection. It’s usually a selection of key films across classic era cinema, arthouse, indie and world cinema. Some might call the selections somewhat high brow. It’s unlikely for example, that you’d see The Avengers as part of […]
Guilty Pleasures: A Vintage Adam Sandler Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe delves into two guilty pleasures with a double dose of classic era Adam Sandler…We’ve all got guilty pleasures. Whether it’s music, TV, or film, some things just bring with them a general air of derision (despite their awesomeness). I mean in music terms, why does Phil Collins get a bad rap, when he’s […]
Seven Essential Films Scored By Tangerine Dream
Tom Jolliffe looks at seven essential films, and their music from Tangerine Dream…In recent cinematic history there has been a nostalgia loaded fascination with synth scores. The kind of music that was popular through the late 70’s and 80’s, would begin to find itself increasingly used in film. After all, a few solo artists or […]
The Northman – Destined for Greatness?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the upcoming Viking epic from Robert Eggers, The Northman…Robert Eggers is two features into his fledgling film career and has already established himself as a major voice in auteur horror. Comparisons to Kubrick have been thrown his way with two films, The Witch and The Lighthouse, which is high praise indeed. […]
Relentless Kinetic Energy: Run Lola Run and Dangan Runner
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the visceral non stop energy of Run Lola Run and Dangan Runner…Occasionally a film can burst out the blocks with the kind of flair and visceral energy that grips you from the start and never lets up. Some films just have a sense of perpetual motion. There’s always something happening. […]
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