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Are we about to see The Rocknaissance?

March 29, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Dwayne Johnson is coming to a turning point in his career; from predictable and interchangeable movies to Martin Scorsese and Benny Safdie, are we about to see The Rocknaissance..?. You’ve seen that meme. A four-panelled picture of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, dressed in seemingly identical gear (a tight white T, stained in dirt and sweat) […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Be Cool, Dwayne Johnson, Fast Five, Faster, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Martin Scorsese, Snitch, the smashing machine

10 Essential Movies from 1976

January 27, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at a great year for cinema with ten essential movies from 1976… A stellar year in cinema can sometimes be judged by the strength of the Best Picture nominees. Then you could look again in a decade or two and see which films have accrued a loyal cult following and been […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 1900, All The President's Men, Assault on Precinct 13, Carrie, Death Among the Pines, God Told Me To, In the Realm of the Senses, Kings of the Road, Marathon Man, network, Obsession, Rocky, Taxi Driver, The Killing of A Chinese Bookie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the omen, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Tenant

10 Great Cult B-Movies of the VHS Era

January 24, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Lower your brow and grab the popcorn as it’s time to look at ten unmissable cult B-movie gems of the VHS era… The point of the humble B-movie (which has effectively now become the A-movie as far as mainstream tent pole cinema is concerned), was  -without too many airs or graces or deep psychological study […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: dead heat, Deathstalker II, Dollman, Pumpkinhead, Retroactive, Scanner Cop, The Hidden, The Stepfather, the stuff, Trancers

The Essential Action Movies of 1986

January 18, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We journey back 40 years (yes… really) with the essential action movies of 1986… In an era when a half-decent action film is becoming rarer than the dodo, and practical stunts and effects even more so, I often find myself venturing back to action films of yesteryear. Some of the very best of years gone […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Better Tomorrow, Aliens, Armour of God, Avenging Force, Big Trouble in Little China, Black Moon Rising, Cobra, Firewalker, Highlander, Raw Deal, Righting Wrongs, The Delta Force, the wraith, Wanted: Dead or Alive

10 Must-See Comedy Movies From 1995

October 19, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s laughs aplenty with these ten essential comedy films from 1995… When life gives you lemons and you have no clue how to make lemonade, sometimes you need to brighten your mood another way. Step forward the humble comedy film, where you’ll hopefully spend the best part of 90 minutes laughing until your ribs ache. […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bad Boys, Billy Madison, Clueless, Friday, Kicking and Screaming, Mallrats, To Die For, Tommy Boy, Toy Story, Welcome to the Dollhouse

The Essential Action Movies of 1985

April 2, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Time for a tooling up montage, as we travel back 40 years to look at the essential action movies from 1985… We’re midway through the decade now and I can’t be alone in finding it almost unfathomable that 1985 was 40 years ago. No, not 10, not 20… 40 years ago man! The midpoint of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Commando, Gymkata, Invasion USA, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, My Lucky Stars, No Retreat No Surrender, Rambo: First Blood Part II, To Live and Die in L.A., Yes Madam

The Essential Indiana Jones Knock-Offs of the 1980s

January 2, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Something seems familiar as we take a look at a selection of essential Indiana Jones imitators from the 1980s… In cinema, if something works once, studios will naturally assume it could work again. Die Hard, aside from spawning four sequels, also inspired innumerable rip-offs. The same goes for Mad Max, Conan the Barbarian, Jaws, The […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Armour of God, Firewalker, gwendoline, Indiana Jones, King Solomons Mines, Raiders of the Lost Ark, River of Death, romancing the stone, The Ark of the Sun God, The Golden Child, The Goonies, The Magic Crystal, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak (

10 Deep Movies You Might Have Missed

December 31, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

There’s no simple escapism here; it’s time to get deep with these ten great, thought-provoking films that may have flown under your radar… It’s time to get deep. The beauty of cinema is just how eclectic and wide-ranging your choice of viewing is. You want simple escapism, you’re covered. You want gruelling depictions of war, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Harvest, How to Have Sex, Maborosi, Marie's Song, Moving, Nostalghia, Only the River Flows, Perfect Days, Secret Sunshine, The Juniper Tree

2025 in Film: What Did We Learn?

December 28, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to take a look back at 2025 in film and ponder what we’ve learned… 2025 is drawing to a close, and we can get a sense of how things have gone and what we’ve learned from cinema this year. It’s fair to say there have been surprises and some trends continuing, with others […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: bring her back, DC, DC Universe, Death Among the Pines, F1, Josh Oconnor, lilo and stitch, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Minecraft, No Other Choice, One Battle After Another, Oppenheimer, Sentimental Value, sinners, Super Happy Forever, Superman, The Baby in the Basket, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts, Train Dreams, wake up dead man: a knives out mystery, Weapons, zootopia 2

Rooting For The Villain

August 3, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

A good villain can make or break your film or series. A great one might just have an audience root for them… Any genre film or series that gets boiled down to good vs evil in its basest form, needs a good villain. Luke Skywalker needs Darth Vader and the Emperor. Sometimes you can just […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: anthony starr, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, The Boys, The Dark Knight

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