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Ranking the Mission: Impossible Franchise

July 5, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With Dead Reckoning Part One coming very soon, we look back at the Mission: Impossible Franchise so far to give you our ranking from worst to best… Tom Cruise is about to kick off his latest cinema salvation exercise and stunt show, continuing his awesomely successful franchise. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Mission: Impossible 5, Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible III, Tom Cruise

The Essential Paranoia Films

July 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up an essential selection of paranoia films… Who likes a good hearty dose of paranoia? Okay, in real life it’s not too enjoyable. In cinema? It’s a gift for film-makers looking to tap into that feeling within their audience. There are a lot of great examples of paranoia-themed films, and when a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blow Out, Cutters Way, Eyes Wide Shut, Les Diaboliques, Marathon Man, Pi, Repulsion, The Conversation, The Machinist, The Thing

The Essential Movies About Memory

July 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tattoo this list to your chest, because you’ll want to remember these essential films about memory…  The brain is a complex machine and memories are a fascinating and complicated part of being human. As a cinematic motif, memory has provided filmmakers with a huge amount of inspiration in so many unforgettable films. We’ve seen films […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Citizen Kane, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Memento, Mirror, Mulholland Drive, Shutter Island, Solaris, the bourne identity, Total Recall, Vertigo, Wild Strawberries

The 90s VR Movie: The Lawnmower Man had a lot to answer for

June 14, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the wave of straight to video Virtual Reality films that followed in the wake of The Lawnmower Man in the mid to late ’90s… The idea of virtual reality worlds has been something of a sci-fi staple for many decades. Cronenberg toyed with the concept in Videodrome. Philip K Dick’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Albert Pyun, Arcade, brainscan, Brett Leonard, Cybertech P.D, Expect No Mercy, Grid Runners, Hologram Man, Sci-Fighter, Strange Days, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, Total Recall, videodrome, Virtual Assassin, Virtual Combat, virtuosity

Superman III: An Underrated Entry in the Man of Steel Canon?

June 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Superman III, the much-maligned third outing for Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, released 40 years ago today… In more recent times it’s gained in cult appeal, but for long-time fans of Christopher Reeve’s original run of films, Superman III’s saving grace tended to be the fact that it […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Christopher Reeve, DC, Richard Lester, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughan, Superman, Superman 3

Ranking Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Post-Governator Starring Roles

June 4, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

10 years since Arnold made his full return to acting after a stint as Governor of California, we rank his major projects from worst to best… In the 80s and 90s at the height of video store popularity, I was but a youth watching films that I wasn’t supposed to be watching. I lapped up […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aftermath, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Escape Plan, fubar, Killing Gunter, Maggie, Sabotage, terminator Gensisys, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Last Stand

The Film Feud of the 90s: Steven Seagal vs Jean-Claude Van Damme

June 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the film feud to end them all: Seagal vs Van Damme… The 90’s begin. Action cinema is at the height of popularity, headed up by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, with Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson also throwing their hats into the mix. The video boom would contribute to a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal

The Essential 90s Action Movies

May 28, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Following our deep dive into 1980s action cinema, lock and load for our list of essential 1990s action movies… The 1990s brought about a shift in the action genre. As the decade progressed there seemed to be shift from the 80s icons into the likes of Nicolas Cage and Keanu Reeves becoming action stars. Likewise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Assassins, Bad Boys, Blade, Cliffhanger, Crying Freeman, Demolition Man, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Drive, Eraser, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, Marked For Death, Out for Justice, Passenger 57, Point Break, Rapid Fire, Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour, Showdown In Little Tokyo, Speed, Stone Cold, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Last Boy Scout, The Matrix, Timecop, True Lies, Under Siege, Universal Soldier

Is John Wick the Best Action Franchise of All Time?

April 16, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

In the wake of John Wick: Chapter 4, we look at whether Keanu’s iconic franchise has now become the best action series of all time… What is the best action franchise? Which series of three or more films have the most consistent levels of quality? It’s pretty hard to look beyond John Wick, which has […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Die Hard, fast & furious, James Bond, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mad Max, Mission: Impossible

Exclusive Interview – Michaela Longden on The Ghost Within, The Baby in the Basket and horror movies

April 9, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We talk to up-and-coming actress Michaela Longden about acting, her recent film The Ghost Within, and her upcoming role in Flickering Myth’s first feature venture The Baby in the Basket… Michaela Longden is a British actress making waves in the horror genre having starred in cult films like Book of Monsters, The Creature Below and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Exclusives, Interviews, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barren, Book of Monsters, cara, Eating Miss Campbell, How to Kill Monsters, Jack in the Box: Awakening, Lord of Wolves, Michaela Longden, Run from Hell, The Baby in the Basket, The Ghost Within, When Darkness Falls

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