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Ten Essential Films of the 1950s

September 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to look at ten essential films of the 1950s… Quentin Tarantino has never been shy about expressing his opinions on cinema. He once claimed that the two weakest decades in cinema were the 50s and 80s. Sure, Tarantino directed Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but I’m still going to disagree.  The 80s were […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice In Wonderland, All About Eve, Animal Farm, Dracula, Godzilla, Les Diaboliques, Night and the City, Night of the Hunter, north by northwest, On the Waterfront, Paths of Glory, Rebel Without a Cause, Seven Samurai, Singing in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, The 400 Blows, the 7th voyage of sinbad, The Big Heat, The Hitch-Hiker, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Searchers, The Wages of Fear, Tokyo Story, Touch of Evil, War of the Worlds, Wild Strawberries

10 Incredibly Influential Action Movies

September 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We look at ten of the most influential action movies ever made… The action genre excites and entertains like no other and it’s fair to say that the lasting appeal shows that audiences have long held the desire for escapism. Whether it’s Western shootouts at high noon, kung fu battles in the streets of Hong […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Die Hard, Enter the Dragon, John Wick, Police Story, Seven Samurai, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the bourne identity, The Driver, The General, The Wild Bunch

Movie Review – Operation Seawolf (2022)

September 8, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Operation Seawolf, 2022. Directed by Steven Luke. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Grillo, Hiram A. Murray, Apostolos Gliarmis, Andrew Stecker and Edgar Damatian. SYNOPSIS: In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the Allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats for one last mission, to […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Reviews, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andrew Stecker, Apostolos Gliarmis, Dolph Lundgren, Edgar Damatian, Frank Grillo, Hiram A. Murray, Operation Seawolf, Steven Luke

Revisiting the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

September 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Were a generation of fans too harsh on the Prequel Trilogy? Tom Jolliffe revisits The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith to see whether they’re worthy of reappraisal, and how they hold up post-Disney Sequel Trilogy… Remember Spaced? The much loved and all too shortly lived sitcom from Edgar Wright, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Disney, Edgar Wright, Ewan McGregor, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, J.J. Abrams, Jake Lloyd, John Williams, Natalie Portman, Rian Johnson, Simon Pegg, Spaced, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Van Damme meets Tsui Hark: Double Team and Knock Off

September 3, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

On the 25th anniversary of Knock Off, we look back at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Tsui Hark double bill… Jean-Claude Van Damme was riding high in the mid 1990s. He was coming off the back of a string of his biggest hits. He had an eye for talent too, becoming a key figure in bringing John […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Dennis Rodman, Double Team, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Knock Off, Mickey Rourke, Paul Freeman, Paul Sorvino, Rob Schneider, Tsui Hark

Dust in the Eye: Ten Tear-Jerking Moments in Action Movies

September 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten tear-jerking moments from an eclectic mix of action movies (with major spoilers)… Action movies are exciting, sometimes empowering, often chaotic and move at a breakneck pace. The primary directive of an action film is to invest you enough into the characters’ quest that you care what happens, but usually only […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A.W.O.L., Best Of The Best, Leon: The Professional, Lionheart, Road House, RoboCop, Seven Samurai, Spoiler, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Killer, Top Gun: Maverick

Lock, Stock and The Essential Guy Ritchie Movies

August 28, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

On the 25th anniversary of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, we look at the essential Guy Ritchie films… In 1998, Guy Ritchie burst onto the British film scene with his dazzling debut hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Since then he’s revisited guns and gangsters, adapted a classic spy show, adapted an iconic […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Guy Ritchie, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes, Snatch, The Gentleman, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Indie Horror Filmmaking: The birth of The Baby in the Basket

April 29, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As Flickering Myth steps into the world of indie filmmaking, Tom Jolliffe details how and why The Baby in the Basket was born… As a screenwriter working in the indie filmmaking world for five years, I made a conscious decision late last year to pull away from hired commissions (slightly) and shift my focus more […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alexandra Faye Sadeghian, Amber Doig-Thorne, Annabelle Lanyon, Elle O'Hara, Firenado, Flickering Myth, gary collinson, Michaela Longden, Nathan Shepka, Paul Barber, Renegades, The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe, war of the worlds: the attack, When Darkness Falls

Indie Horror Filmmaking: Creating The Baby in The Basket – From Script to Green Light!

May 20, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

A look inside scripting The Baby in the Basket, Flickering Myth’s first foray into Film Production… The week so far has been up and down but perfectly encapsulating life as an indie screenwriter who in the midst of an insanely busy spring,  has been co-handling  a Kickstarter campaign that has thankfully seen us hit its […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alexandra Faye Sadeghian, Amber Doig-Thorne, Annabelle Lanyon, Elle O'Hara, Michaela Longden, Nathan Shepka, Paul Barber, The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe

Exclusive Interview – Amber Doig-Thorne on Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey and The Baby in the Basket

May 6, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Amber Doig-Thorne joins us to discuss her recent role in the monster hit Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and her role in Flickering Myth’s upcoming horror The Baby in the Basket… A woman of many talents, Amber Doig-Thorne is an up-and-coming actress, a presenter, a comedienne and an influencer among other things. Having starred […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alien Invasion, Amber Doig-Thorne, Dying Breed, Mr Hyde: The Untold Story, Run from Hell, The Baby in the Basket, The Haunted Studio, The Little Ones, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

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