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Japan Is Winning Cinema Right Now

June 16, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Several great Japanese movies have come out in the past year, adding to a recent golden period, so is Japan making the best of the best right now? Cinema around the world is all about cycles. You’ll see peaks and troughs where a nation is producing stellar work followed by a period of creative lull […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster, Perfect Days, Sakura Ando, Shoplifters, Wim Wenders

7 Essential Christmas Action Movies

November 17, 2024 by admin

Coinciding with the release of Red One, Casey Chong presents a selection of festive-themed action films… Christmas is traditionally a season of spreading joy and getting together with family, friends and loved ones. Not to mention watching movies from something funny to heartfelt and inspiring to get into the yuletide spirit. Holiday classics like It’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Batman Returns, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Enemy of the State, Lethal Weapon, Red One, Violent Night

The Essential Action Movies of 1985

April 2, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Time for a tooling up montage, as we travel back 40 years to look at the essential action movies from 1985… We’re midway through the decade now and I can’t be alone in finding it almost unfathomable that 1985 was 40 years ago. No, not 10, not 20… 40 years ago man! The midpoint of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Commando, Gymkata, Invasion USA, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, My Lucky Stars, No Retreat No Surrender, Rambo: First Blood Part II, To Live and Die in L.A., Yes Madam

A New Golden Age of Espionage TV Shows?

November 16, 2024 by Chris Connor

In the wake of the success of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, Chris Connor looks forward to a new golden age of TV spy shows… Espionage and TV have a long and often hugely successful history; if we look at acclaimed adaptations of John Le Carre’s work including The Night Manager and Alec Guinness-led adaptations of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Chris Connor, Television Tagged With: Black Doves, Eddie Redmayne, Gary Oldman, Keira Knightley, killing eve, Michael Fassbender, Slow Horses, Spooks, The Agency, The Bureau, The Day of the Jackal

Sin City at 20: The Story Behind the Stylish, Blood-Soaked Neo-Noir Comic Book Adaptation

April 2, 2025 by admin

Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Sin City as it turns 20… In present day Hollywood, shooting films in digital backlots has become something of a commonplace occurrence. But two decades prior it was viewed by the industry as the ground-breaking next step in VFX driven visual storytelling. In this context, we take a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Frank Miller, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Josh Hartnett, Marley Shelton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Rosario Dawson, Sin City

Has Dave Filoni Made the Star Wars Prequels Cool 25 Years Later?

May 10, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at the re-evaluation of the Star Wars Prequels… Re-released last Friday to celebrate its 25th anniversary and timed to May the Fourth, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace impressed with an $8.1 million domestic haul during its rerelease. It’s going for about $14.5 million globally, which is pretty impressive for what […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies, Television Tagged With: Dave Filoni, George Lucas, Star Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: Ahsoka, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Mandalorian

Upcoming 2025 Movie Sequels To Add To Your Watchlist

August 21, 2024 by EJ Moreno

Here’s a selection of the biggest movie sequels of 2025 to add to your watchlist… Deciding what to watch weekly can be difficult, but a list like this can help you start planning ahead. We’ve assembled seven films to watch in 2025 and added a sequel spin to this list. Quite a few movies have […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: 28 Years Later, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Ballerina, captain america: Brave new world, Cobra Kai, John Wick, Karate Kid, M3GAN 2.0, Mortal Kombat 2

The Essential Richard Norton Movies

March 30, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

One of action cinema’s unheralded greats, Richard Norton, has sadly passed away. Here are ten essential movies where Norton kicked ass… Action fans were heartbroken to learn that the perennially underrated but legendary Richard Norton passed away recently. The Australian tough guy and martial arts master has had a colourful background, which has included working […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: China O'Brien, Cyber Tracker, equalizer 2000, Force: Five, Magic Crystal, Millionaires Express, Mr Nice Guy, Richard Norton, Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars, Under the Gun

Are we about to see The Rocknaissance?

March 29, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Dwayne Johnson is coming to a turning point in his career; from predictable and interchangeable movies to Martin Scorsese and Benny Safdie, are we about to see The Rocknaissance..?. You’ve seen that meme. A four-panelled picture of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, dressed in seemingly identical gear (a tight white T, stained in dirt and sweat) […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Be Cool, Dwayne Johnson, Fast Five, Faster, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Martin Scorsese, Snitch, the smashing machine

A DCEU Obituary: Ranking the DC Extended Universe from Worst to Best

January 14, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno ranks the DC Extended Universe… Let’s get this out of the way first: everything you are about to read comes from someone who was once a DCEU super-fan. Admitting that feels like the step to recovery, as does reflecting on the journey that began over a decade ago. Man of Steel, the 2013 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Aquaman, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Birds of Prey, black adam, Blue Beetle, DC, dc extened universe, Justice League, Man of Steel, Shazam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Suicide Squad, The Flash, the suicide squad, Wonder Woman, wonder woman 1984, Zack Snyder's Justice League

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