Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Showgirls, once universally derided and considered one of the worst films ever… but is it actually misunderstood?Upon its release in 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s trashy spectacular, Showgirls was obliterated by critics. It was a lavish, Vegas set tale with plenty of excess dismissed as vacuous, grimy and seedy. In […]
The Battle for Vampire Superiority: The Lost Boys vs. Near Dark
Tom Jolliffe presides over a showdown between the cult 1987 vampire flicks The Lost Boys and Near Dark…The vampire has sucked his merry way through cinema history, from the silent era, to the R-Patz era. We’ve seen many incarnations, many genres, from Christopher Lee to angsty teens, from horror to camp comedy. Perhaps the vintage […]
Nikita vs Anna: When Luc Besson Retraced His Steps
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the film which broke Luc Besson out to the world, and his more recent and pale imitator, Anna…Cinema is almost bereft of an original idea these days. There are very few that arrive which feel like something unique, and even then, the smart-arses among us might start pinpointing similarities to […]
A Beginner’s Guide To Andrei Tarkovsky
Tom Jolliffe continues our series of director beginner’s guides with Andrei Tarkovsky… Some directors have an important impact on cinema. It doesn’t always tie in with box office results, or widespread audience appeal. If you’re in the States or the UK, chances are your predominant cinematic experience revolves around American or British films. As far […]
8 Essential Feel-Good British Underdog Movies
Classic underdog stories with loveable losers searching for a rare win in life are a staple of British cinema. Here are eight essentials… British cinema is full of great and inspiring underdog stories, occasionally based on true stories, about loveable good-hearted losers who happen upon one big moment to succeed in life. Even if it’s a […]
MTV Generation-Era Comedies That Need New Sequels
Happy Gilmore 2 is on the way, but what other MTV generation-era comedies deserve revisiting? Here’s ten…Adam Sandler’s about to take to the fairways again with the triumphant return of Happy Gilmore. The slacker-turned-unorthodox golf pro lit up the screens in the mid-90s and got into a fistfight with Bob Barker. It was a big […]
Movie Review – The Last Kumite (2024)
The Last Kumite,2024.Directed by Ross W. Clarkson. Starring Mathis Landwehr, Matthias Hues, Kurt McKinney, Billy Blanks, Cynthia Rothrock, Michel Qissi, Abdul Qissi, David Kurzhal, Kira Kortenbach, Mona Moula and Mike Derudder.SYNOPSISMichael Rivers, a skilled martial artist is forced to fight in an illegal fighting tournament in order to save his daughter. Along the way he […]
A Triple Hit of Vintage Pam Grier
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. Modern […]
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, am […]
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 ways. […]
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