Tom Jolliffe on the season of forgiveness. Can Christmas movies get away with being bad? Yes… yes they can…. Tis the season to be jolly. As for you. Yes, you! I know you’ve had your tree up since the beginning of November. For a short time, the rotting pumpkin was still perched on your doorstep […]
The Top Ten MCU Movies (From a Non-Marvel Fan)
Tom Jolliffe casts a slightly MCU-fatigued eye over the catalogue to provide a Top 10 list… I’m sure you’ll have seen many a ranking list or top 10 focused on the MCU. There have been so many films now since Iron Man kicked off the whole shebang that they’ve been separated into phases. We’re coming […]
Michelle Yeoh Gets the Spotlight, And It’s About Damn Time!
Tom Jolliffe pays tribute to Michelle Yeoh, who is finally getting center stage with Everything Everywhere All At Once… Good things come to those who wait, but sometimes it takes way too long for things that should be, to come to pass. Much like a good sourdough, sometimes a bit of patience is required, although […]
Albert Pyun: The Trailblazing B-Movie Auteur
With the sad news of Albert Pyun’s passing, we look back at the eclectic career of a B-movie legend… Video-era movie buffs were hugely saddened by the news that Albert Pyun has left the mortal coil. For the uninitiated, Pyun was a director who became synonymous with B-movies. He had a penchant for post-apocalypse wastelands, […]
10 Essential Football Films
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 […]
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