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10 Essential Holidays Gone Wrong Movies

April 11, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Pack your suitcase and don’t forget your passport for these essential holidays gone wrong! Holidays are supposed to be relaxing escapes from the grind of everyday life. Whether you’re off to the snowy mountains to ski, or soaking up the sun, sand and Sangria at a Spanish beach, everybody needs a little R and R. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday, Die Hard, Evil Dead, home alone, Hour Of The Wolf, In Bruges, Lion strike, Sonatine, The Descent, The Hills Have Eyes, The Vanishing, Total Recall, tourist trap, Vacation, Weekend at Bernies, When Darkness Falls, Withnail and I

12 Erotically Charged Thrillers For Your Watchlist

March 14, 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

What’s Next For Tom Cruise?

May 26, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Is there life after blockbuster action cinema for Tom Cruise? At an age-defying 62 years old, Tom Cruise delivers us his latest action opus with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. It brings to a potential close an eight-film franchise largely built on the stunt du jour that the inimitable Cruise conjures up to perform. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise

They Don’t Make ‘Em like Grosse Pointe Blank Anymore

April 4, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at Grosse Pointe Blank, the cult classic that should be the blueprint for genre-blending films… Studios seem to like a good genre blend these days. It’s not a new concept, and the action/comedy fusion has been a staple for many years. However, flipping it on its head somewhat and infusing […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alan Arkin, Benny Urquidez, Dan Aykroyd, George Armitage, Glenn Powell, Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, Hit Man, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Say Anything, The Fall Guy, The Hitman's Bodyguard

10 Essential Style Over Substance Movies

March 30, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Dazzling visuals, killer soundtracks and spectacle delivered with perfect polish. Who needs depth with these style-over-substance classics? Cinema allows for plenty of choice. Whilst some of us might fancy a film that intellectually engages us, others might want some simple escapism. When it comes to simpler cinema, there are also those films that focus intensely […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Days of Thunder, Desperado, Drive, Flashdance, John Wick, Ocean's Eleven, Point Break, Rocky IV, Run Lola Run, Suspiria

How Orion Pictures Perfected the Chuck Norris Movie

March 27, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Orion Pictures made arguably the two best movies with the late Chuck Norris, Code of Silence and Lone Wolf McQuade… The late great Chuck Norris departed the mortal coil. He wasn’t taken; he just left us behind. Norris’ legacy leans heavily toward the meme generation and viral internet humour. Chuck Norris Facts were an early […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: An Eye for an Eye, Andrew Davis, Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Henry Silva, Invasion U.S.A., Steve Carver, The Delta Force, The Expendables 2, Walker Texas Ranger

10 Intense Chamber Piece Movies for Your Watchlist

March 22, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Who needs a lot of locations? Not these ten intense chamber pieces… A chamber piece movie is typified by limited locations, or more often just a single location, with a focus on a small cast of characters. Intimate focus and character-driven narratives are a perfect antithesis to huge expansive ensembles and globe-trotting adventures you might […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien, Boiling Point, cube, Death Among the Pines, Death and the Maiden, Misery, Persona, Ready or Not, rear window, The Baby in the Basket, the interview, The Shining

12 Essential Marchal Arts Movies To Enjoy This March

March 22, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

March is the perfect time to wax on and wax off with these 12 essential ass-kicking martial arts films… Whether you have a black belt in Kung-fu, pink belt in origami, or you can’t fight your way out of a wet paper bag, many of us love a good martial arts movie. Cinema has made […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blade II, Blood and Bone, Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee, Cold Harvest, Cynthia Rothrock, Dolph Lundgren, Enter the Dragon, Gary Daniels, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jet Li, John Wick 3: Parabellum, Keanu Reeves, Kickboxer, Kiss of the Dragon, Mark Dacascos, Michael Jai White, Michelle Yeoh, Millionaires Express, Richard Norton, Sammo Hung, Scott Adkins, Showdown In Little Tokyo, The Matrix, The Shadow's Edge, Undisputed 3, Undisputed III: Redemption, Wesley Snipes, Yuen Biao

What to Expect From A24’s Bloodsport Remake

March 20, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

What can we expect from Michaela Coel and A24’s Bloodsport remake?  Sometimes cinema throws out a head-scratching surprise. This week, it was the news that A24 and Michaela Coel are combining to remake the Jean-Claude Van Damme star-maker, Bloodsport. It’s a bizarre combination of creative forces to say the least, and one that doesn’t immediately […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A24, Bloodsport, Bolo Yeung, cannon films, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michaela Coel, Newt Arnold

The Essential Bruce Campbell Movies

March 14, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

From Ash to Elvis, it’s time to celebrate one of cult cinema’s biggest icons with the essential Bruce Campbell movies… With a raise of the eyebrow and a spin of his boom stick, Bruce Campbell has been entertaining audiences of genre cinema for over 40 years. After recently revealing his ultimate fight against cancer, we […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Army of Darkness, Brain Slasher, Bruce Campbell, Bubba Ho-Tep, Evil Dead 2, Maniac Cop, mindwarp, My Name is Bruce, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, The Evil Dead, the hudsucker proxy, The Man with the Screaming Brain

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