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20 Essential Criterion Collection Films

April 22, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Physical Media, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blow Out, Brazil, Cries And Whispers, Cronos, Days Of Heaven, Diabolique, Do the Right Thing, Following, La Haine, Le Samourai, My Life as a Dog, Naked, On the Waterfront, Pale Flower, Paris Texas, Quadrophenia, Stalker, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Piano Teacher, woman in the dunes

The Essential Danny Elfman Film Scores

September 5, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Simple Plan, Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Darkman, Edward Scissorhands, Good Will Hunting, hellboy II: the golden army, men in black, Nightbreed

Robert Eggers to enter the Labyrinth? Sold!

December 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Labyrinth, Labyrinth 2, Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse, The Northman, the witch

10 Essential Films From 1974

December 8, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Woman Under the Influence, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Alice in the Cities, Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, Foxy Brown, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, The Sugarland Express, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Long Good Friday: Still the Definitive British Gangster Film

April 18, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barry Keeffe, Bob Hoskins, Derek Thompson, Francis Monkman, Helen Mirren, John Mackenzie, Phil Meheux, Pierce Brosnan, the long good friday

10 Great Recent Horror Movies You Need To See

December 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barbarian, Censor, infinity pool, longlegs, men, Suitable Flesh, Talk to Me, Terrifier 2, The Lighthouse, the substance

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

March 28, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barbie, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Civil War, Dune: Part Two, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Happy Gilmore 2, Oppenheimer, Road House, Skinamarink, TERRIFIER, Terrifier 3, The Crow, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Great Cult Films From 1984 You Might Have Missed

December 6, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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.  […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Crimes of Passion, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Repo Man, Streets of Fire, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Element of Crime, The Toxic Avenger, Top Secret

Can Aaron Pierre Become The Next Big Action Star?

September 29, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aaron Pierre, Brother, Mufasa: The Lion King, netflix, rebel ridge

Indie Horror Filmmaking: Releasing The Baby in the Basket into a challenging landscape

February 9, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Flickering Myth’s first foray into filmmaking is rolling out into the world but the realities of the indie filmmaking landscape are tough… In case, dear readers, you haven’t been bombarded enough with news of Flickering Myth’s first dive into making a movie, our film The Baby in the Basket has been unleashed upon the world, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amber Doig-Thorne, Andy Crane, Elle O'Hara, gary collinson, Lisa Riesner, Maryam d'Abo, Michaela Longden, Nathan Shepka, Paul Barber, The Baby in the Basket, Tom Jolliffe

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