With the World Cup about to get underway, Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential football films… The beautiful game. It inspires fevered passion across the globe. Football (let’s not open this can of worms my US chums…it is football, the one with the round ball you might call soccer), it’s a communal experience that can […]
Underrated Movies from the Masters of Action Cinema
Tom Jolliffe picks one underrated gem from ten of the best action stars of all time… Ah the misunderstood masterpiece. The underappreciated gem. Some films just take a while to get the attention they fully deserve. When it comes to the primo action stars one might argue the ranking list. However, whilst considering the best […]
The Pain of An Axed TV Show That Has More Story to Tell
Tom Jolliffe on that hollow feeling fans experience when a TV show you’re emotionally invested in is canned by the network… A good TV series. You park your derriere down for that first episode. Does it hook you in immediately? Then every subsequent episode you see, particularly on a continued drama with a long overriding […]
Cyborg: When Jean-Claude Van Damme and Albert Pyun rode the Cannon Express
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the early Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer Cyborg… April 7th, 1989. Hot off the monster success of Masters of the Universe, which went off as initially budgeted and without hitches, a sequel was released… or so what could have happened in theory. As it was, the Dolph Lundgren-headlined Masters of the […]
The A-Z of Action Movies: A-D
Beginning an A-Z series on action cinema, Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of movies from A-D… Action cinema. Explosions, fist fights, one liners and occasionally mullets. From the early westerns to the modern Marvels of blockbuster cinema, action cinema has entertained and excited audiences for decades. Sure, everyone knows Die Hard is one of […]
Movie Review – Boy in the Corner (2022)
Boy in the Corner, 2022. Directed by Joshy Lee. Starring Cyran Vergara, Victoria Shepherd, Akil Largie, Shaun Pelayo, Solly McLeod, Ewan Perry, Luka Arpino Pereira, and Jon-Paul Gates. SYNOPSIS: The backward system of society pushes another dream-filled boy to the curb, and with his aspiration suppressed, he is at risk of falling into the attractive […]
Is “Cinema” turning the tide against “Theme Park” blockbusters?
With 2022 particularly impressive so far, we look at whether great films which might pass the Scorsese “cinema” test might be turning the tide against formulaic blockbusters… 2022 has been pretty horrible all told. From a cost of living crisis to the war in Ukraine to skyrocketing energy bills and a farcical political landscape, real […]
Scarlett Johansson: Lost In Blockbusters!
Tom Jolliffe on Scarlett Johansson… I’m a fan of Scarlett Johansson. As an actress I think she’s interesting. She’s almost always engaging. She has a sultry old fashioned quality. Frankly she’s gorgeous, which whilst that shouldn’t be as important as it is in Hollywood (and it still is) that means she is a leading lady. […]
2017’s trailers suggest we’re in for a dull year of blockbusters
Tom Jolliffe on 2017’s blockbuster slate… With 2016 drawing to a close and a new year chock full of mega budget films on the horizon, Hollywood’s preferred formula for success is the same as it has been for at least 10 years (probably a lot longer). It almost seems hard to think of a tentpole […]
Sylvester Stallone: The Unstoppable Force
Tom Jolliffe looks at the upcoming offerings from Sylvester Stallone, who is still going strong at 76… For many, Sylvester Stallone is an icon. A hero through childhood and adolescence for several generations of movie fan. I grew up in an era where playgrounds were divided by camps. It might have been a Glaswegian School […]
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