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Bookended Brilliance: Directors with Great First and Last Films

November 2, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Plenty of directors have started with a great film or ended with one. But which directors had a stunning debut and an immense final film? We take a look at four contenders… Every director starts somewhere, and most undoubtedly strive to stand out in their field. Many an iconic director has begun in earnest and […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, Andrei Tarkovsky, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Confidentially Yours, Francois Truffaut, Ivan's Childhood, Sidney Lumet, The 400 Blows, The Sacrifice

Feel the Heat: Uncomfortably Hot and Sweaty Films

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Wipe the sweat from your brow and wring out your sodden shirt with these ten uncomfortably hot and sweaty films… I’m sitting here typing in the middle of a rare UK heatwave. We’re a nation more accustomed to four seasons in one day, who prefer to prepare for the cold with carpets and adequate heating, […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Angel Heart, Barton Fink, Body Heat, Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, the surfer, Wake In Fright, woman in the dunes

Great Movies That Are An Absolute Masterclass in Acting

May 5, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at eight films featuring incredible acting that should certainly be on the watch list for any aspiring actors… Great actors are one key piece of a jigsaw and the big picture everyone hopes for is a great movie at the end of it. Some actors can be so great they often […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Woman Under the Influence, Autumn Sonata, Dead Poets Society, Decision to Leave, Naked, Rocky, Taxi Driver

Ten Essential Films of the 1950s

September 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to look at ten essential films of the 1950s… Quentin Tarantino has never been shy about expressing his opinions on cinema. He once claimed that the two weakest decades in cinema were the 50s and 80s. Sure, Tarantino directed Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but I’m still going to disagree.  The 80s were […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice In Wonderland, All About Eve, Animal Farm, Dracula, Godzilla, Les Diaboliques, Night and the City, Night of the Hunter, north by northwest, On the Waterfront, Paths of Glory, Rebel Without a Cause, Seven Samurai, Singing in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, The 400 Blows, the 7th voyage of sinbad, The Big Heat, The Hitch-Hiker, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Searchers, The Wages of Fear, Tokyo Story, Touch of Evil, War of the Worlds, Wild Strawberries

Flickering Myth Film Class: How To Do An Ensemble Film

September 20, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at how to pull off an ensemble film… The art in pulling off the ensemble film. It’s a tricking balance. In the vast majority of cinema you may be limited to one or two clearly defined protagonists with a cast of supporting artists. […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, American Pie, Glengarry Glen Ross, Stand By Me, The Expendables

5 films to watch now Jeremy Corbyn leads Labour

September 15, 2015 by Simon Columb

Simon Columb with five films to watch now Jeremy Corbyn leads Labour… On Saturday, the successful campaign of Islington North MP, Jeremy Corbyn, marked one of the greatest political upsets for decades. While the Labour party elected an extreme left-winger to lead their ‘broad church’, the national newspapers are divided as they either assume the nail […]

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Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Simon Columb Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, pride, The Bicycle Thieves, The Insider, The Wolf of Wall Street

The Callow Way – How Films Predicted The UK General Election Result

May 10, 2015 by Neil Calloway

This week Neil Calloway looks at a movie based way of predicting election outcomes… If you hadn’t noticed, there was a General Election in the UK this week. The result was probably best summed up by the American gentleman I overhead outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday, who said “The Prime Minister who was […]

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