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Ten Great Comeback Performances

December 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A career slump is often impossible to escape from but sometimes, just sometimes, a performer gets a shot and delivers a comeback performance that puts them back in the spotlight… Hollywood is a fickle place. One minute you can be hot and the next not. Whether it’s a run-of-flops or the wrong kind of infamy, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Autumn Sonata, Brendan Fraser, Demi Moore, Ellen Burstyn, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ingrid Bergman, Iron Man, Jackie Brown, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Travolta, Ke Huy Quan, Mandy, Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Rourke, Mud, Nicolas Cage, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pam Grier, Pamela Anderson, Pauly Shore, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Forster, Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, The Court Jester, The Last Showgirl, the substance, the whale, The Wrestler, Uncut Gems

The Essential Joe Dante Movies

December 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the essential works of the vastly underrated Joe Dante…  Some directors are rightly heralded as part of the grand pantheon of legendary directors. Thinking of Steven Spielberg immediately brings to mind an array of iconic masterpieces, not least some of his trailblazing films in the blockbuster realm.  Arriving in the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Innerspace, Joe Dante, Matinee, the 'burbs, The Hole, The Howling

An Action Christmas: Ten Action Movies Set At Christmas

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up ten action films set at Christmas… It’s time to pull your cracker and polish your baubles. Yep, Christmas is upon us. This means a festive period with a watch list of decidedly Christmassy films. By law we’ll all be watching Home Alone, The Snowman and It’s a Wonderful Life. Christmas is […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christmas Rush, Cobra, Dark Angel, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Invasion USA, Lethal Weapon, Project Shadowchaser II, Riot, the long kiss goodnight

10 Essential Noir Films for Noirvember

November 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential noir films in celebration of Noirvember… We’re into November, also known in some select cinephile circles as Noirvember. In celebration of the film noir genre as well as Neo-noir which evolved some of the classic staples in more contemporary styles, here is a selection of essential noir films. It’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Basic Instinct, Chinatown, Detour, Memento, Minority Report, The Killing, the maltese falcon, the third man, thief, Vertigo

How Roger Corman Changed Cinema

May 13, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

After the sad news that Roger Corman has passed away, we look at his legacy and how he changed cinema… Roger Corman leaves behind an imperious résumé, with over 500 credits. Most prolific as a producer, Corman was also a director who made some incredible films (most notably his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations) and even […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Apollo 13, Bloodfist, Boxcar Bertha, Death Race 2000, Fitzcarraldo, Francis Ford Coppola, frankenstein unbound, House of Usher, Jack Nicholson, jonathan demme, Little Shop of Horrors, Martin Scorsese, peter bogdanovich, Piranha, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Silence of the Lambs, The Intruder, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven

10 Great Movies To Watch in November

November 16, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s the void between Halloween and Christmas, but here are 10 great movies set in November that you need to see… You’re just getting over your Halloween candy waist expansion and the jingle of jingle bells is just around the corner too. Michael Myers has been packed away for another year and Mariah Carey and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Bittersweet Life, Addams Family Values, blood rage, Late Autumn, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Prisoners, Rocky II, She's Gotta Have It, thanksgiving, The Ice Storm

Five More Sylvester Stallone Movies That Need a Sequel After Cliffhanger

December 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With Sly returning as Gabe Walker in a Cliffhanger sequel, we look at five other Sylvester Stallone films that need a sequel… Sylvester Stallone is going to hit the mountains in a surprising and long awaited sequel to Cliffhanger with filming having been set for summer 2024. The Die Hard in the Snowy Mountains hit […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Assassin, Cliffhanger, cliffhanger 2, Cobra, Demolition Man, Rambo: Last Blood, Sylvester Stallone, Tango and Cash

Die Hard on a Shoestring: The Low Budget Die Hard Clones

December 7, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

As the festive season approaches and Die Hard becomes mandatory viewing, we take a look at some low budget clones… It may not have been the first of its kind, but when Die Hard came out, from the moment Bruce Willis entered the Nakatomi plaza, a new sub-genre all of its own was launched – […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blast, Breakaway, Command Performance, Die Hard, Irresistible Force, Shadowchaser, Skyscraper

10 Alien Franchise Rip-Offs That Are Worth A Watch

November 30, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

With Alien: Romulus currently terrorising audiences, here are ten Alien knock-offs to watch if you love the franchise…  The Alien franchise is a pretty eclectic mix, made up of distinct stabs at effectively the same concept repeated. A group of largely disposable humans are hunted and picked off by a fearsome alien creature (or multiple). […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien, Alien Predators, Alien: Romulus, Aliens, D.N.A, forbidden world, Leviathan, Pitch Black, Screamers, Species, starship troopers, Terminator II, xtro

Movie Review – The Bouncer (2024)

November 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

The Bouncer, 2024. Directed by Massimiliano Cerchi. Starring John Ozuna, Costas Mandylor, Rosmary Yaneva, Vincent Rivera, Nick Turturro, Gerald Okamura and Tayah Kansik. SYNOPSIS: In Romania, fugitive Frank Sharp takes a job as a bouncer. Saving a woman from abuse, he discovers she’s trafficked. They escape together but are relentlessly hunted. Opening with Frank Sharp (John […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Costas Mandylor, Gerald Okamura, John Ozuna, Massimiliano Cerchi, Nick Turturro, Rosmary Yavena, Simon Phillips, The Bouncer

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