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WWE’s Liv Morgan joins Lily James and Shun Oguri in Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

May 1, 2025 by EJ Moreno

Takashi Miike is on a roll right now, attaching himself to some of the hottest names in pop culture. Not only is the iconic and shocking Japanese filmmaker working with pop mega-star Charli XCX, but he’s also signed on for Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo with Neon, and he’s also assembling a wild cast for this one, […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Bad Lieutenant, bad lieutenant: tokyo, Lily James, Liv Morgan, Shun Oguri, Takashi Miike

Ten Essential Gambling Films

August 4, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe puts his chips on ten essential gambling films… The money goes down. You’ve placed your bets. Now it’s time for the nitty gritty. Win or lose. If you win, do you quit while you’re ahead or go again? Cinema has long held a fascination with gambling across its many forms, but the predominant […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bad Lieutenant, Croupier, Hard Eight, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mississippi Grind, The Gambler, The Hustler, Uncut Gems, Wake In Fright, White Men Can't Jump

The Cop on the Edge

February 21, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on the well-worn but effective cop on the edge trope… Cinema can often be pretty simple. Good guys are often morally upstanding. Bad guys often irredeemably corrupt. Your good guy might be a cop, your bad guy a crook. The hero might have a foible or two, but is generally psychologically on an […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bad Lieutenant, manhunter, The Departed, Touch of Evil, Training Day

The Back Alley Scorsese: Abel Ferrara

October 26, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the best work of Abel Ferrara… What with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola being so prominent in the press of late, it brought to mind another director who rose into prominence in the wake of the aforementioned legends. Growing up in New York he was learning his trade […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Abel Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Ms.45, The Addiction, The Driller Killer

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