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Great Horror-Comedy Movies to Watch This Halloween

October 26, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to laugh and jump with fright, with these great comedy horror films… The horror genre is currently experiencing a resurgence, as comic book movies and studio action films are faltering. The budget-friendly genre is also more driven by concept over star power. One genre that seems to have disappeared from the big screen, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: BrainDead, Evil Dead 2, Little Shop of Horrors, Scary Movie 2, Shaun of the Dead, the 'burbs, The Lost Boys, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, What We Do in the Shadows

13 Underrated Horror Franchise Sequels That Deserve More Love

October 25, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at 13 underrated franchise horror sequels that deserve more love… Franchise horror rule of thumb generally goes like this: the first film is a trailblazing classic. The sequels increasingly diminish in quality. Some franchises might well have die hard fans, but it can often be the case that those classic originals such […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Alien 3, Cube 2: Hypercube, Freddy vs. Jason, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, New Nightmare, Predator 2, Psycho III, The Exorcist III, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Wes Craven's New Nightmare

10 Movie Franchises That Need To End

October 17, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

With a remake, reboot, or sequel every week, it’s time to look at ten franchises that need to end… Look at a coming soon list of mainstream movies across the next 12 months and you’ll notice something. The titles all seem familiar. We’ve been there and we’ve done it already. Sometimes for 10 movies no […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien, Alien: Romulus, Aliens, Evil Dead, fast and furious, Furiosa, Ghostbusters, indiana jones and the dial of destiny, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Star Wars, Star Wars: Andor, Terminator, Terminator 2, The Fast and the Furious, The Mandaloran, XXX 3

7 Great Life Affirming Robin Williams Movies

October 12, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s been a decade since Robin Williams’ passing but his legacy lives on with these life-affirming movies… A rubber-faced comedian with an innate ability to create improvisational magic and playful unpredictability, Robin Williams also showed incredible talent as an actor. Many of his movies have had a lasting impact and aside from being an unexpectedly […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam, Good Will Hunting, Hook, Jumanji, Mrs. Doubtfire, the fisher king

10 Essential Vampire Movies To Sink Your Teeth Into

October 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Coinciding with the release of the new Salem’s Lot [read our review here], here are ten essential vampire movies to sink your teeth into… Nosferatu (1922) This iconic piece of cinema remains timeless and its visual influence can still be seen today. If you’ve seen anything from Tim Burton, you’ve seen run off from films […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: a girl walks home alone at night, Cronos, Dracula, Fright Night, From Dusk Till Dawn, Let The Right One In, Near Dark, Nosferatu, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Hunger, The Lost Boys, Vampires Kiss

Is Cinema On Its Last Legs?

June 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

After some notable big-budget bombs, is the big screen experience on its last legs? Remember Barbenheimer? It felt like a shot of adrenaline that could reinvigorate a struggling big screen industry with audiences preferring to catch films on streaming. Had you been asked about your expectations for the success of a three-hour biopic of Oppenheimer […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, Barbie, Civil War, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Godzilla Minus One, Mandy, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Oppenheimer, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, saltburn, The Fall Guy, Top Gun: Maverick

The Return of the Moderate Budget Action Movie?

March 10, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Could 2024 bring about a surge in moderately budgeted big-screen action movies?  It’s been a talking point for some years now. The big studios, particularly Disney and their innumerable arms, have been preoccupied with huge blockbusters as well as gargantuan budget shows. The low-budget indie films up to about ten million bucks make up a […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bill Skarsgård, Boy Kills World, Cinderella's Revenge, Dev Patel, Jason Statham, monkey man, Nobody, The Beekeeper, Upgrade

No Effects, No Set Pieces, Just Exceptional Acting: Glengarry Glen Ross Revisited

October 2, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Released on this day in 1992, Tom Jolliffe looks back at Glengarry Glen Ross, a masterclass in screen acting… The lights go down, the film rolls and everyone in the cinema (except THAT guy) go silent in anticipation of what’s to come. The film must then grip its audience. The cohesion between writer, director and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jack Lemmon, James Foley, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Spacey

15 Movies To Watch On Tubi UK

September 15, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

The UK now gets an opportunity to ride the Tubi rollercoaster and we give you 15 gems to watch from underrated, undiscovered and forgotten to the enjoyably bad… Without a huge deal of fanfare, Tubi opened its doors in the UK recently to try and capture the kind of audience pull it’s managed over in […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 2099: The Soldier Protocol, A Vigilante, Akeelah and the Bee, Assault On Devils Island, Black Cobra 2, Bloodfist, body melt, Boogie Boy, Braven, Chopping Mall, Death Fighter, Dinosaur Hotel II, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, equalizer 2000, Frog Dreaming, grizzly, Jurassic Island, Mega Twister, PREY, Sabotage, Searching, Shattered Glass, space raiders, Split Second, The Arrival, The Ghost Within, The Love Witch, the sword and the sorcerer, The Vanished, tubi

10 Iconic Movie Weapons Every Millennial Kid Wanted

September 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A cool movie weapon makes all the difference in genre films and we look at ten movie weapons every millennial kid wanted… Action and sci-fi films and their relentless battles between good and evil have one consistent. Weaponry is involved and whether it’s the use of real-life weapons or creations for your film, making it […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan the Barbarian, Dolph Lundgren, Evil Dead, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, Krull, Masters of the Universe, Predator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Robin Hood, Star Wars, Sylvestor Stallone, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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