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Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?

March 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aquaman, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, avengers: endgame, Blade, DC, DC Extended Universe, dc studios, DC Universe, Deadpool / Wolverine, Disney, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Madame Web, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Spiderman, The Beekeeper, the marvels

Revisiting Timothy Dalton’s Underappreciated James Bond

August 6, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

On this day in 1986, Timothy Dalton was announced as the new James Bond. We look back over his underrated stint as 007… Who’s your favourite Bond? Sometimes this question ends up revealing more about your generation than anything else. I’ll state it though, that I’m a Connery man, even though he was before my […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: John Glen, Licence to Kill, Maryam d'Abo, The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton

Rooting For The Villain

August 3, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A good villain can make or break your film or series. A great one might just have an audience root for them… Any genre film or series that gets boiled down to good vs evil in its basest form, needs a good villain. Luke Skywalker needs Darth Vader and the Emperor. Sometimes you can just […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: anthony starr, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, The Boys, The Dark Knight

The Female Action Hero

July 31, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

Tom Jolliffe on female action heroes… With the impending UK release of Atomic Blonde, it now seems a good time to consider the female action hero. You may think this ‘phenomena’ only stretches back to around the time Sigourney Weaver donned a mecha-suit, but it goes back further. There has certainly been a significant rise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Angela Mao, Carrie-Anne Moss, Charlize Theron, Connie Chan, Cynthia Rothrock, Gina Carano, Halle Berry, Jeanne Bell, Josephine Siao, Michelle Yeoh, Milla Jovovich, Pam Grier, Scarlett Johansson, Sigourney Weaver, Tamara Dobson

20 Years Back: Celebrating the Cinematic Delights of 1997

August 12, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Tom Jolliffe celebrates the cinematic delights of 1997… 1997. It doesn’t feel that distant but we’re now talking 20 years. This was the year I left school. That officially makes me old as fuck I believe. Lady Di passed, Tony Blair became PM, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, Mike Tyson had a Holyfield Ear […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: As Good As It Gets, Austin Powers, Boogie Nights, con air, Copland, Event Horizon, face/off, Gattaca, Good Will Hunting, Grosse Point Blank, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Liar Liar, men in black, Princess Mononoke, starship troopers, The Fifth Element, The Full Monty, The Game, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Titanic, Tomorrow Never Dies

The Top 10 Stephen King Movies

September 2, 2017 by admin

Tom Jolliffe with his top ten Stephen King movies… With the impending release of the new It film, now seems a good time to run through a top 10 list of Stephen King movies. These are all feature films. I’ve not included TV miniseries. As a writer it’s fair to say that King has been […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Carrie, Christine, It, Misery, Silver Bullet, Stand By Me, Stephen King, The Dead Zone, The Green Mile, The Mist, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining

The Essential Harrison Ford Films

September 29, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In the build up to the release of Blade Runner 2049 [read our review here], Tom Jolliffe looks at the essential films of the key cast, starting with Harrison Ford… A long, varied and fine career has seen Ford become iconic in two franchises in particular (and indeed the upcoming reprise of Rick Deckard could […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, the fugitive, Witness

The Essential Ryan Gosling Films

October 1, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Continuing in the build up to Blade Runner 2049 [read our review here], Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the essential Ryan Gosling… In the past decade, Ryan Gosling has seen something of a transformation. He’s developed into an actor who can be relied upon to deliver a note worthy performance. He’s gone from being […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner 2049, Crazy Stupid Love, Drive, la la land, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling, the big short, The Nice Guys

The Essential Jared Leto Films

October 4, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the essential Jared Leto films… Concluding our build up to Blade Runner 2049 with a series of essentials on the principal cast, we finish with Jared Leto. A musician/actor who seems to have been around for a while now, ageless and when perusing his CV you will find that he’s not […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Psycho, Blade Runner 2049, Dallas Buyers Club, Fight Club, Jared Leto, Mr Nobody, Requiem for a Dream

The Essential Helen Mirren Films

January 7, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the essential Helen Mirren films…  A British Icon, Mirren has been working since the 60’s and has an array of cult films under her belt, as well as a consistent recognition from the major awards. Never less than stellar, Mirren is an inspiration to aspiring actors. She’s successfully jumped between indie, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Calendar Girls, Excalibur, Helen Mirren, Red, Savage Messiah, Teaching Mrs Tingle, The Cook The Thief The Wife And Her Lover, the long good friday, The Queen, Winchester

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