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The Essential Action Movies of the 1980s

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Tom Jolliffe with his picks of the essential 1980s action movies… Cheesy, excessive, over the top and funny. Something about the 1980s action movie marks it as the most extravagant, bold and explosive era of the genre. The 90s infused MTV stylistics into the genre and certainly went for a flashier style of shooting and […]

20 Essential Criterion Collection Films

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It’s time to cast an eye on the Criterion Collection, a distribution company renowned for giving cult, classic and world cinema a new lease of life… The art of film curation and preservation is something one company in particular seems to exceed above all else. For the niche market of cinephile collectors, Criterion also has […]

The Essential Danny Elfman Film Scores

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With the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice [read our review here], it’s time to look at the inimitable Danny Elfman’s essential work… Some composers are truly unique, leaving a body of work that listeners can immediately identify as theirs within a few bars. Whether you can spot a Williams, a Zimmer or a Goldsmith, these conjurers […]

Robert Eggers to enter the Labyrinth? Sold!

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Rumours are circulating that Robert Eggers might be bringing the Goblin Kingdom back to our screens with a sequel to Labyrinth and it could be incredible… The Hollywood rumour mill never stops and occasionally it spews out an idea that sounds far too good to be true. Robert Eggers has just overseen the release of […]

10 Essential Films From 1974

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We go back half a century to offer up ten essential films from 1974… It’s incredible to think that it’s been half a century since the year 1974. As a year of cinematic offerings, it takes some beating too with a slew of incredible films. This was still right in the midst of Hollywood’s golden […]

The Long Good Friday: Still the Definitive British Gangster Film

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With Easter upon us, Tom Jolliffe looks back at The Long Good Friday… The season of Chocolate eggs is upon us, and whilst anyone pondering seasonal viewings tied to the Easter may be looking at Faith-based cinema, there’s also another film that is intrinsically tied to Easter… The Long Good Friday. Coming at a transitional […]

10 Great Recent Horror Movies You Need To See

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Here are ten recent scarers you need to see… If mainstream cinema and blockbuster spectaculars have had a largely tough time finding traction with audiences in the past five years, horror films have had the exact opposite. The past decade has seen a healthy rise in inventive and boundary-pushing horror movies, with the past five […]

Studios defiantly stick to reboots and sequels but are we bored yet?

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It seems every day a new reboot or sequel is given the green light or drops on the big screen and the streamers. How badly do audiences really want them? In the space of a few weeks, we’ve had Dune 2, a new Ghostbusters film, a Road House reboot, a Beetlejuice sequel teaser, a Happy […]

Great Cult Films From 1984 You Might Have Missed

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It’s time to venture back to 1984 and take a look at some great cult films you may have missed… It’s fair to say that 1984 had a stellar selection of iconic films that became part of pop culture. Films like The Terminator, Ghostbusters and Amadeus are widely considered classics and well-known to general audiences.  […]

Can Aaron Pierre Become The Next Big Action Star?

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After an impressive breakout turn in Rebel Ridge, could Aaron Pierre become cinema’s next big action hero? One of the most high-profile Netflix originals hit the streaming service earlier in September accompanied by excellent reviews and shot straight to the top of the streamer’s charts. There was a pretty firm consensus from critics and fans […]