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Incredible TV Shows That Were Cancelled Too Soon

September 6, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson with ten great television shows that were cancelled too soon…Over a lifetime of watching TV shows, I’ve come to realise that television show life expectancy is the exact opposite of boxing. In boxing great fighters almost always continue when their best days are long behind them, but when it comes to TV a […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Simon Thompson, Television Tagged With: arrested development, Bakersfield PD, Carnivale, Clone High, Deadwood, firefly, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, rome, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Twin Peaks

10 Great 80s Sci-Fi Adventure Movies You Need To See

August 10, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with a selection of great 1980s sci-fi adventure movies to add to your watch list…The 1980s was a great decade for movies with the emergence of modern blockbuster cinema, state-of-the-art special effects, and a wealth of fascinating stories across various genres. Among the most popular of the decade was the sci-fi adventure, with […]

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Incredible 21st Century Films You May Have Missed

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Keeping things post-millennium, here are 18 incredible movies from the 21st century that may have flown under your radar…The New York Times recently ran an opinion poll from both 500 industry folk and its readers to compile a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century. Among those listed are a number of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Fantastic Woman, a girl walks home alone at night, A Quiet Girl, A White White Day, Boy, Burning, frailty, Holy Spider, Joyland, La Chimera, Long Day's Journey Into Night, loveless, Parasite, Personal Shopper, Shiva Baby, Super Happy Forever, Teachers lounge, The Piano Teacher

Forgotten 90s Action Movies That Deserve a Second Chance

June 1, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong looks at ten 1990s action movies that are worth revisiting…Action movies were the bread and butter of the 1990s cinema. Hit movies from Terminator 2: Judgment Day to Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lethal Weapon 3 and 4, Mission: Impossible, The Fugitive and Under Siege ruled the box office […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Chill Factor, fair game, Fled, hard rain, Live Wire, Metro, Rapid Fire, Striking Distance, sudden death, Terminal Velocity

10 Great Forgotten Movie Gems Worth Seeking Out

May 30, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up essential films that were overlooked at the time, or have been forgotten in the years since release…Sometimes for whatever reason a film doesn’t strike a wide audience. It may just get released in the wrong era, or take a while to regain a cult following. Some films in retrospect end up […]

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13 Great Obscure Horror Movie Gems You Need to See

May 16, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Forget Michael, Freddy and Jason. Check out these thirteen obscure and underrated horror movies…The horror genre is stuffed to the gills with an array of popular and iconic films. There are plenty of overlooked and undervalued films, some of which might have been overshadowed by bigger box office successes, or some which have been seen […]

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10 Crazy Cult Horror Movies You Need To See

May 10, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Go big or go home with these ten horror movies that dial the crazy up to the max…The horror genre is experiencing a boom right now with plenty of popular films destined to be cult favourites. You can have subtle, atmosphere-driven horror, folk, mind-bending cerebral horror and more. You can also have a horror film […]

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Great Director’s Cuts That Are Better Than The Original Theatrical Versions

May 8, 2025 by admin

Simon Thompson looks at ten great director’s cuts that improve on the original theatrical editions…Director’s cuts are a strange beast indeed. Some of them completely enhance or make amends for the initial movie’s strengths and/or short-comings, but others usually add far too much water to a perfectly good beer (cough… Apocalypse Now Redux…cough) and accord […]

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Ten Great 80s Movie Stars Who Disappeared

May 6, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

These big stars made the 80s better but disappeared from the limelight the following decade….Grab your neons, shoulder pads, ripped sweater and your aviators. It’s time to venture back to the 1980s on a nostalgic journey to a simpler time – a time you could buy a house for the price of a cup of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bobcat Goldthwait, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Jennifer Grey, Ke Huy Quan, Lou Ferrigno, Mia Sara, Michael Winslow, Mr T, Phoebe Cates, Rick Moranis

20 Essential Criterion Collection Films

April 22, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to cast an eye on the Criterion Collection, a distribution company renowned for giving cult, classic and world cinema a new lease of life…The art of film curation and preservation is something one company in particular seems to exceed above all else. For the niche market of cinephile collectors, Criterion also has a […]

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