Tom Jolliffe double bills Species and Under The Skin… The sexy siren, luring men to their inevitable doom by taking on the form of a gorgeous woman. Like cats to catnip, the men salivate their way to demise. In one corner we have Species, the tale of a scientific splicing of human and alien DNA […]
Darkman: Revisiting Sam Raimi’s cult 1990 superhero movie
Tom Jolliffe revisits Sam Raimi’s Darkman, released on this day back in 1990… Hot on the heels of Batman, Sam Raimi delivered Darkman unto the world. Raimi wouldn’t become synonymous with iconic comic book hero films until doing the game changing Spider-Man trilogy, but Darkman , whilst an original creation from Raimi’s mind, is a […]
Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels
They’ve all been championed as some of the best of their genre but are these bloated and overlong sequels really that good? I love event cinema, especially when it’s good and in recent years, although we’ve seen an increasingly mediocre output from Disney and Marvel, we’ve still seen some pretty great blockbuster cinema. Top Gun: […]
A Double Bill of Film Noir from 1948: Raw Deal and He Walked By Night
It’s time for a double bill of Film Noir thrills from 1948 with Anthony Mann’s Raw Deal and He Walked By Night… Anthony Mann was an acclaimed and prolific director who specialised in westerns, epics, war movies, and film noir. He was famously fired from the director’s chair on Spartacus to be replaced by a […]
Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?
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 […]
Revisiting Timothy Dalton’s Underappreciated James Bond
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 […]
The Female Action Hero
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 […]
20 Years Back: Celebrating the Cinematic Delights of 1997
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 […]
The Top 10 Stephen King Movies
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 […]
The Essential Harrison Ford Films
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 […]
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