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Ten Essential Films of the 1960s

November 4, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Following on from the 1940s and 1950s, it’s back to the swinging sixties as we look at ten essential films from the decade that you cannot miss… When you think back to key transitions in cinematic history there are a number of eras that saw an almost seismic shift in the kind of films being […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 8 and a Half, Bonnie and Clyde, Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, High and Low, In the Heat of the Night, Lawrence of Arabia, Once Upon a Time in the West, Psycho, The Ipcress File, woman in the dunes

A Star Isn’t Born, A Curse, and How Much?! The Baby in the Basket Final Prep Update

September 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As Flickering Myth’s first film production gears up to go before the camera, we bring you an update on the joys of pre-production… Our first venture into making movies has proven to be a massive undertaking. A successful but stressful crowdfunding campaign was rife with challenges. What is the magic formula? What makes for an […]

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

The Kings of Cool

October 20, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Who are the undisputed Kings of Cool? We take a look at the coolest actors to grace the silver screen… Some stars are pretty good at what they do. Maybe it’s hard work and in the case of being a tough guy, that means hours at the gym. Then there are gifts that just come […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alain Delon, Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, george clooney, Harrison Ford, Humphrey Bogart, Keanu Reeves, Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, Tony Leung, Toshiro Mifune

Ten Essential Films of the 1940s

October 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten essential films of the 1940s… We recently took a dive back to the 1950s in a quest to prove Quentin Tarantino wrong in his claim that it was one of the weakest decades for cinema. Sorry QT, but there are just far too many greats to come close to paling in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bicycle Thieves, Brief Encounter, Brute Force, Casablanca, cat people, Citizen Kane, Detour, Double Indemnity, Drunken Angel, Fantasia, Gaslight, Gilda, Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, Late Spring, Le Belle et la Bette, Naked City, Notorious, Rebecca, rope, Sanshiro Sugata, shadow of a doubt, Stray Dog, the maltese falcon, The Red House, The Red Shoes, the third man, The Woman in the Window, White Heat

Microbudget Horror Movies You Have To See

June 24, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

As Flickering Myth launches into the world of microbudget film production, we look at five recent microbudget horror movies you need to see… Making movies is tough. Right now the differential between the big studio pictures and what is below seems to be huge. It’s a near-unjumpable chasm between $5 million budgets and that limited […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amber Doig-Thorne, Charlie Steeds, Craving, Geoff Fowler, Ghost Crew, Jason Horton, Lawrence Fowler, Lawrie Brewster, Megan Tremethick, Michaela Longden, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Scott Jeffrey, The Ghost Within, Tom Staunton, Werewolf Castle, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

The Wrong Side of Town in ’93: Trespass and Judgment Night

October 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes on a double bill of overlooked thrillers from 1993 with Trespass and Judgment Night… 1993 was an odd year for movies. Looking back, there wasn’t a big selection of instant classics that might immediately jump out at you for their potential longevity. Some of the more pop culture films of the year […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bill Paxton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Jeremy Piven, judgment night, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Hopkins, Tiny Lister, Trespass, Walter Hill, William Sadler

20 Epic Car Chases That Will Drive You Wild

October 14, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Hit the pedal to the metal and practice your handbrake turns, it’s time for twenty epic car chases that will drive you wild… You can rely on the action genre to set your pulse racing with shootouts, fight scenes, foot chases and aerial duels. There’s another enjoyable kind of action sequence that genre fans love […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bullitt, Drive, Duel, Executive Target, Last Man Standing, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Peacekeeper, Police Story, rage, Recoil, Ronin, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the bourne supremacy, The Dark Knight, The Driver, The Hitcher, The Raid 2, To Live and Die in L.A., Universal Soldier: Regeneration

Why Steven Yeun is one of the best in the business right now

May 7, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the career of Steven Yeun, the supporting actor who is suddenly blooming as a leading man and proving to be one of the best in the business…   Listen up, people. If you don’t think Steven Yeun is one of the best actors in the business right now, then you and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: BEEF, Burning, Minari, Steven Yeun, The Walking Dead

Seven Famous Cursed Movie Productions

October 8, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Disasters, terrible luck, radiation poisoning and death. We look at some famous cursed film productions… With Flickering Myth’s first foray into movie-making on The Baby in the Basket now underway, we’ve found ourselves faced with a number of problems throughout pre-production as recently covered in our pre-production update. We’ve dealt with unavoidable dropouts, unexpected costs […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Atuk, Poltergeist, Stalker, The Baby in the Basket, The Crow, The Exorcist, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the omen

Risky Business at 40: Tom Cruise’s Breakout Hit Revisited

August 19, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look back at Tom Cruise’s breakout hit Risky Business, which turned 40 this month… Tom Cruise is probably the last great movie star and still pulling in the big bucks with the latest in his Mission: Impossible franchise, which despite the naysayers, will still likely tip close to two-thirds of a cool […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Joe Pantoliano, Paul Brickman, Phil Collins, Rebecca De Mornay, Risky Business, Tangerine Dream, Tom Cruise

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