Tom Jolliffe looks back on three of Pam Grier’s iconic Blaxploitation era films, Foxy Brown, Coffy and The Big Bird Cage… Remember the theme song for The Spy Who Loved Me? Nobody does it better… Well, when it comes to being the undisputed Queen of Blaxploitation cinema, really, nobody did it better than Pam Grier. […]
5 Underrated Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies
The Muscles from Brussels returns soon with Darkness of Man, so here’s five of his most underrated films to get you in the mood… There are two kinds of people who don’t like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Crazy folk and Steven Seagal. The rest of us love to partake in a little bit of Van Dammage, […]
Great Movies Guaranteed To Creep You Out
Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of unsettling cinema guaranteed to give you the creeps… Every film has a particular D.N.A. Within this cinematic coding it can feature elements synonymous with a particular genre, or techniques to give the film an overriding tone. For horror, the film-makers could mould their film in a variety of […]
10 Actors Quentin Tarantino Needs In His Final Film
With Tom Cruise rumoured to be in line to make his Quentin Tarantino debut in the filmmaker’s final film The Movie Critic, who else should pop their Tarantino cherry? Here’s Tom Jolliffe with ten suggestions… When it comes to master filmmakers the one thing you can rely on is the eclectic range of talent filling […]
Cannon’s Avengers: What If… Cannon Films Did the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Here in the Flickering Myth multiverse, we look at how a Cannon-produced Avengers epic may have been cast… The Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed an unprecedented run of success after Robert Downey Jr kicked off a major era in movies back with 2008’s Iron Man. Some might not have enjoyed the all-powerful grip that the MCU […]
The 10 Best Villains in Sylvester Stallone Movies
Every hero needs a formidable villain and action titan Sylvester Stallone has faced plenty. We look at the ten best villains in Stallone movies… Most action films live or die on the strength of the villain. An underwhelming villain can kill a film, especially if the hero isn’t all that interesting. We’ve taken a look […]
Carl Weathers in Action
An icon for generations of film fans, Carl Weathers might have left this mortal coil but his legacy as an action star won’t be forgotten… Film and TV fans worldwide were saddened by the news of Carl Weathers’ death on February 1st, 2024. To many, their first experience of Weathers’ larger-than-life presence and charisma was […]
7 Enjoyably Bad Christmas Movies
It’s Christmas season and it’s a time of forgiveness…for bad movies. Here are seven enjoyably bad Christmas movies… Something about the Christmas season raises the spirits in people. Come December, it feels like audiences suddenly gain a tolerance for rubbish, be it food, music or movies. Yes, the humble cinematic Christmas offering has a crapola […]
Ten Underrated Movies From 1988 That Deserve More Love
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1988 to look at ten underrated movies which deserve more love… It’s 2023 and that means that the cinematic year of 1988, stuffed with some classics and cult favourites like Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!) and Die Hard, was 35 years ago. Pick yourself up off the floor and shake the shock […]
Ten Underrated Movies From 2013 That Deserve More Love
Shock horror! 2013 was a decade ago now and we’re going to dive back and look at some underrated films that deserve more love… 2013 still feels like last week to me. Actually, 1993 still feels a bit like that. Time flies pretty fast but let’s consider what the year 2013 offered cinematically. It was […]
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