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13 Kick-Ass Straight-to-Video Action Movies to Watch on Tubi

March 8, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Tubi is fast becoming a gold mine of straight-to-video action films, and we have 13 explosive ones for you to watch… When it comes to action cinema, you could watch the tried and trusted classics like Die Hard and Commando, but pretty soon you’ll find yourself endlessly rewatching the same things. Back in the 80s, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: belly of the beast, Black Creek, Close Range, Deathline, Diamond Cut Diamond, Direct Action, Drive, Falcon Rising, Freefall, Life After Fighting, Pit Fighter, Redline, The Expert, Until Death

The Worst Omissions in the 2026 Oscar Nominations

March 7, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

The Oscars can’t always get it right, but were they seriously wrong with these omissions? The Oscars are almost upon us, and heaven knows what controversies and contentious decisions await. The nominations went largely as expected, given the award season thus far and the hype associated with particular movies. However, even the nominations weren’t without […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bugonia, Eva Victor, Hamnet, jesse plemons, joel edgerton, Josh Oconnor, No Other Choice, Oscars 2026, Park Chan-Wook, Paul Mescal, Sorry Baby, Train Dreams, wake up dead man, William H. Macy, yorgos lanthimos

Can Edgar Wright conquer America with The Running Man?

July 6, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on The Running Man, and whether it will be the film to finally see Edgar Wright breaking America… Much like Oasis and Robbie Williams, Edgar Wright’s attempts to translate UK status and acclaim to the glitzy world of the US industry haven’t gone entirely to plan. He’s certainly got more name recognition than […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Baby Driver, Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz, Last Night in Soho, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Stephen King, The Running Man

10 Essential Comedy Movies of 1996

March 6, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a trip back some thirty(!) years to look at the essential comedy movies of 1996… Back in the 90s, the comedy genre was going through a purple patch. It might surprise younger audiences, largely starved of regular comedy releases (especially on the big screen), that comedy was one of the most prolific big-screen […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bottle Rocket, Fargo, Happy Gilmore, Kingpin, Swingers, The Birdcage, The Cable Guy, The Frighteners, The Nutty Professor, Trees Lounge

10 Essential Action Movies of 1996

March 4, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s stunts aplenty with spinning kicks and punches, as we travel back to 1996 with these essential action movies… The action movie landscape of 1996 was pretty interesting. It saw a noticeable shift in the genre, stepping noticeably away from the previous decade and early 90s reliance on muscle-bound heroes. The beefy big boys like […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Black Mask, Broken Arrow, Daylight, Eraser, Executive Decision, First Strike, Glimmar Man, Maximum Risk, Mission: Impossible, Riot, Sabotage, Silent Trigger, Sworn To Justice, the long kiss goodnight, The Quest, The Rock, The Sweeper, White Tiger

10 Great Forgotten Gems of the 1980s You Need To See

February 6, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten great forgotten gems from the 1980s that need added to your watch list… The 1980s was an eclectic melting pot of cinema. Blockbusters and franchises were becoming a big thing. The success of home video also gave films a place to succeed beyond the cinema screens. Cinema fandom has always clustered […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Avenging Force, Body Double, Nighthawks, One Deadly Summer, One From the Heart, Opera, Roadgames, Running Scared, The Man With Two Brains, the wraith

12 Erotically Charged Thrillers For Your Watchlist

February 24, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We get hot under the collar with twelve essential, erotically-charged thrillers… Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie are making things steamy with the latest adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Erotic thrillers are experiencing something of a comeback and are arguably more mainstream than ever. Plenty of fare, once consigned to Skinemax cable premieres in the dead of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Snake of June, Basic Instinct, Body Double, Body Heat, Bound, Crimes of Passion, Death Among the Pines, Elle, Eyes Wide Shut, In the Realm of the Senses, Jill Rips, Last Tango in Paris, Lifeforce, Payback, saltburn, Scorned, The Handmaiden, The Housemaid, The Last Seduction, The Piano Teacher, Turkish Delight, Under the Skin, wild things

Is AI About to Make Creatives Irrelevant?

February 16, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Are we at a crossroads with AI, or already way down the road leading to the death of the creative? You can’t halt progress, and when money is being fired at an industry with the velocity of the Death Star’s planet-destroying laser, then it inevitably feels like said industry is unstoppable. Despite everything the Terminator […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: canyon of the dead, Darren Aronofsky, Disney, Late Night With the Devil, On this Day: 1776, Roger Avary, Val Kilmer

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

10 Essential Movies from 1976

January 27, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at a great year for cinema with ten essential movies from 1976… A stellar year in cinema can sometimes be judged by the strength of the Best Picture nominees. Then you could look again in a decade or two and see which films have accrued a loyal cult following and been […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 1900, All The President's Men, Assault on Precinct 13, Carrie, Death Among the Pines, God Told Me To, In the Realm of the Senses, Kings of the Road, Marathon Man, network, Obsession, Rocky, Taxi Driver, The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the omen, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Tenant

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