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The Essential Indiana Jones Rip Off Movies of the 1980s

September 5, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Something seems familiar as we take a look at a selection of essential Indiana Jones rip-offs from the 1980s… In cinema, if something works once, studios will naturally assume it could work again. Die Hard, aside from spawning four sequels, also inspired innumerable rip-offs. The same goes for Mad Max, Conan the Barbarian, Jaws, The […]

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The Blockbuster Comic Book Movie Problem: The Box Office Cliff Edge

August 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Thunderbolts*, Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps did everything right, so what went wrong with this year’s comic book movie blockbusters at the box office? Hollywood has spent the past half a decade in a post-COVID era, facing an exacerbation of a problem that was already well in motion. Fewer people, particularly younger generations, […]

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10 Essential Comedy Movies From 1995

August 24, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s laughs aplenty with these ten essential comedies from 1995…  When life gives you lemons and you have no clue how to make lemonade, sometimes you need to brighten your mood another way. Step forward the humble comedy film, where you’ll hopefully spend the best part of 90 minutes laughing until your ribs ache. Or, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bad Boys, Billy Madison, Clueless, Friday, Kicking and Screaming, Mallrats, To Die For, Tommy Boy, Toy Story, Welcome to the Dollhouse

The Essential Pamela Anderson Movies

August 10, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

With her triumphant renaissance in full swing, it’s time to look at the essential Pamela Anderson movies… Hollywood loves a comeback story. Whether they’ve reappeared after five, ten, or twenty years in the wilderness, some stars make unexpected and triumphant returns. All sorts of once bright lights on a decline have suddenly found themselves thrust […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Barb Wire, Baywatch, Naked Souls, Pam & Tommy, Pamela Anderson, Pamela: A Love Story, Raw Justice, The Last Showgirl, The Naked Gun

10 Great Forgotten Gems of the 1980s

July 26, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe presents ten great hidden gems from the 1980s that you need to see… 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 in select […]

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

10 Great Cult B-Movies of the VHS Era

August 5, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Lower your brow and grab the popcorn as it’s time to look at ten unmissable cult B-movie gems of the VHS era… The point of the humble B-movie (which has effectively now become the A-movie as far as mainstream tent pole cinema is concerned), was  -without too many airs or graces or deep psychological study […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: dead heat, Deathstalker II, Dollman, Pumpkinhead, Retroactive, Scanner Cop, The Hidden, The Stepfather, the stuff, Trancers

The Cinematic Crossovers We Need To See

August 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

20 years on from the release of Freddy vs Jason, here are more cinematic crossovers we really need to see… It doesn’t happen too often in cinema but when it does, the crossover special definitely tickles the viewers’ curiosity. Whether it was Freddy vs Jason bringing two horror universes crashing together or the first bout […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aliens, Arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell, Daniel Craig, Evil Dead, fast and furious, Freddy vs. Jason, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Hellboy, Hellraiser, Idris Elba, James Bond, Jamie Clayton, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Knives Out, Ludacris, luther, Mel Gibson, Morgan Freeman, Pitch Black, Predator, Rambo, Robert Englund, Ron Perlman., Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel

Lifeforce: A Film Only Cannon Could Have Made

June 21, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

40 years on from its release, Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at a defining moment in Cannon Films canon… What’s the craziest mo-fo of a film you’ve ever seen? There have been plenty of odd films. The beauty of cinema is in its variety. I’ve written about a slightly more critically acclaimed film Cannon […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: cannon films, Lifeforce, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth, Tobe Hooper

10 Essential Sci-Fi Movies from 1995

July 25, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe takes a trip back to 1995 for ten essential sci-fi film recommendations… Sci-fi movies offer a glimpse into dazzling futures, alternate presents and much more. Sure, these Nostradamus-ian predictions don’t always come true. 2015 didn’t bring us flying cars or Jaws 19. That said, we must be approaching that number with […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Monkeys, fist of the north star, Ghost in the Shell, Johnny Mnemonic, Michael Madsen, Screamers, Species, Steel Frontier, Strange Days, Tank Girl, The City of Lost Children, Twelve Monkey's

Feel the Heat: Uncomfortably Hot and Sweaty Films

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Wipe the sweat from your brow and wring out your sodden shirt with these ten uncomfortably hot and sweaty films… I’m sitting here typing in the middle of a rare UK heatwave. We’re a nation more accustomed to four seasons in one day, who prefer to prepare for the cold with carpets and adequate heating, […]

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