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Has the Oscars Finally Embraced “The Weird”?

November 12, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at the Academy Awards and the new era of films vying for recognition… As we enter a new awards season, it’s refreshing to look at the landscape of potential contenders. Loving the race to the Academy Awards for decades and later entering my own awards season as a Critics Choice Association voter, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, EJ Moreno, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Academy Awards, Barbie, Black Swan, Christopher Nolan, Everything Everywhere All at Once, greta gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Poor Things, The Dark Knight, The Shape of Water, yorgos lanthimos

Revisiting Enemy of the State at 25

November 20, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As it turns 25, we take a look back at the underrated Tony Scott espionage thriller Enemy of the State… It’s the year 1998 and everybody loves Will Smith. The guy can do no wrong, from coming fresh off the back of an iconic and much-loved TV show to an almost instantaneous leap into blockbuster […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barry Pepper, Enemy of the State, Gene Hackman, Jack Black, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina Hall, Seth Green, Tom Sizemore, Tony Scott, Will Smith

Five Directors Who Could Make James Bond Great Again

October 22, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at five directors who could resurrect Bond and make the character great again… Since Daniel Craig handed in his PPK and called it a day as James Bond, the big talk has been mostly focused on who will take over the 007 moniker and start a new iteration of the iconic […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Casino Royale, Christopher Nolan, Daniel Craig, Danny Boyle, Edgar Wright, GoldenEye, James Bond, Michael Fassbender, No Time to Die, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Pierce Brosnan, Quantum of Solace, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Skyfall, Spectre, Steve McQueen, Timothy Dalton

Crazy Vampire Tales from 1988: Vampire’s Kiss and Lair of the White Worm

September 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe revisits two gonzo vampire classics from 35 years back in Vampire’s Kiss and Lair of the White Worm… In 1987, two of the best vampire films of the decade were released. The Lost Boys was pure 80s, MTV styled pop cinema with instantly quotable dialogue and a great cast of young 80’s upstarts like […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Jennifer Beals, Ken Russell, Lair of the White Worm, Nicolas Cage, Peter Capaldi, Robert Bierman, Vampires Kiss

1993 and 2002: Steven Spielberg Rules Cinema!

July 8, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We look back at 1993 and 2002 when Steven Spielberg had not one but two masterpieces in both years… Most directors would love to have a critically acclaimed hit movie. The legendary Steven Spielberg has had dozens throughout his career. What’s more, the prolific filmmaker has occasionally had two releases in a year.  Now, if […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ben Kingsley, Catch Me If You Can, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Janusz Kaminski, Jeff Goldblum, John Williams, Jurassic Park, Laura Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Max von Sydow, Minority Report, ralph fiennes, Sam Neill, samantha morton, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks

It Happened One Night: The Essential Single Night Movies

August 5, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

There’s misadventures from dusk ’til dawn as Tom Jolliffe presents ten essential one night movies… The humble night odyssey. A protagonist finds them self on a dusk ’til dawn journey or quest. There have been plenty of films over the years which have taken place in a very contained period of time. We’ve seen a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: After Hours, American Graffiti, Assault on Precinct 13, Clue, Die Hard, Glengarry Glen Ross, harold and kumar go to white castle, Judgment Day, Miracle Mile, The Warriors

Obscure DC Characters That Need Sony-Style Solo Movies

May 28, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno with six obscure DC characters who need their own film… Blue Beetle and Black Adam are some of the latest DC movies, which is wild for longtime fans to see the studio dig deeper into the catalog for new stories to tell. For years, the DC brand has been dominated by similar Batman […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Comic Books, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Animal Man, Clayface, DC, Deadman, Detective Chimp, Silver Banshee, The Question

Terrible Remake Ideas: Past, Present, Future

February 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten unnecessary remakes from the past and coming soon that no one asked for… Hollywood is full of interesting and original ideas. Studios are actively looking to pursue new concepts and move away from simply repackaging or updating existing IPs. Okay, I’m fibbing. Hollywood is desperately scraping any old idea they […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Conan the Barbarian, Highlander, Ocean's Eleven, Point Break, Psycho, Road House, RoboCop, The Crow, The Hitcher, The Killer, Total Recall

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire roars to $194 million at the worldwide box office

March 31, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has stomped its way to a worldwide bow of $194 million at the box-office.  The Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment MonsterVerse movie exceeded expectations at the North American box-office, collecting a Titan-sized $80 million, and its footprint around the world was just as impressive, crushing the competition with $114 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Dune, Dune: Part Two, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Godzilla, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, king kong, MonsterVerse

Trailer for Sony’s Downtown Owl starring Lily Rabe, Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens and Henry Golding

March 31, 2024 by Amie Cranswick

Sony Pictures has released a poster and trailer for Downtown Owl, the comedy drama from directors Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe. Based on Chuck Klosterman’s novel of the same name, the film follows Julia (Rabe), a woman who moves to the small town of Owl in North Dakota in 1983 to take a high school […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Downtown Owl, Ed Harris, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Henry Golding, Lily Rabe, Vanessa Hudgens

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