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Feel the Heat: 10 Uncomfortably Hot and Sweaty Films

July 14, 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 and Opinions, 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

The Big Lebowski at 25: Looking Back at the Idiosyncratic Cult Classic Sensation

April 19, 2023 by admin

Hasitha Fernando revisits The Big Lebowski at 25… Now this-a-here story I’m about to unfold revolves around a pair of upstanding American filmmakers and a little movie the duo crafted two decades prior. Over the years, this ‘ere film which goes by the name of The Big Lebowski, has gone on to become something of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Barton Fink, David Huddleston, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Jeff Bridges, Joel Coen, John Goodman, John Turtturro, Julianne Moore, Miller's Crossing, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Tara Reid, The Big Lebowski, the hudsucker proxy

Great Films Unfairly Forgotten in Time

April 9, 2023 by Gary Collinson

Tom Jolliffe on great films unfairly forgotten in time… Time is a cruel mistress. It’s the one constant and something no one can alter (except Marty McFly and Doc Brown). Looks go, memories fade and in cinematic terms a film can be forgotten over time. Now sometimes it’s probably a good thing. Take for example […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Simple Plan, Barton Fink, Dark City, frailty, insomnia, Jackie Brown, Near Dark, Pacific Heights, Strange Days, The Conversation, They Live, thief, True Lies, videodrome

Why Writers are Such Popular Protagonists

March 20, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on what makes writers a popular choice for a protagonist… There are many popular archetypes for a cinema protagonist. How often do you see a cop as the lead character in a film? It’s a regular character choice, particularly in action and thriller films. Almost every protagonist needs some kind of vocation I […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: As Good As It Gets, Barton Fink, Manhattan, Mank, Misery, sideways, Stranger Than Fiction, Swimming Pool, The Shining

Back to 1991: Ten Essential Movies from Thirty Years Ago

March 18, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to look at 10 essential films from the year 1991… If it was depressing enough realising 2001 was 20 years ago, how about pondering a little on the fact 1991 is now 30 years ago. It’s terrifying how quickly time has flown. Still, whilst it’s with some melancholy that […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barton Fink, Boyz n the Hood, Cape Fear, Delicatessen, JFK, My Own Private Idaho, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Commitments, the fisher king, The Silence of the Lambs

In Over Your Head, Coen Style

June 24, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the Coen Brothers finest films, often seeing protagonists in a situation that gets increasingly out of their control… The plan seems simple. The quest, on paper, should be easy. Nothing could go wrong. In film terms, a lack of complication is a drama killer of course. In film terms, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Barton Fink, Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, coen brothers, Fargo, First Blood, No Country for Old Men, Raising Arizona

Films about Film

March 8, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look at films about film… The magic of cinema. A wonderful escape from the rigours of modern life, or a microscope onto the worst issues we might face. Escapism, realism, thrills or dramatic truth, whatever your desire, is covered. The very process in making film is also in equal measures magical, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8 1/2, Barton Fink, Be Kind Rewind, Cinema Paradiso, Ed Wood, Peeping Tom, Son of Rambow, The Disaster Artist, The Player, Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Oscars: Five Great Films That Should Have Been Nominated for Best Picture (But Weren’t)

February 9, 2020 by Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson with five great films that should have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars… Whenever the Oscar nominees are announced, the best and brightest of the film critic world (and idiot’s like me) gather together and begin our collective muttering about what film we feel deserves to win the Best Picture trophy. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: Barton Fink, Come and See, Heat, Road to Perdition, Scarface

Blu-ray Review – Barton Fink: Special Edition (1991)

August 22, 2017 by Brad Cook

Barton Fink, 1991. Directed by Joel Coen. Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, and Jon Polito. SYNOPSIS: Barton Fink has been reissued by Kino Lorber in a new Blu-ray edition that doesn’t say “Special Edition” anywhere on the packaging but basically is one (hence the use of “(Special Edition)” on […]

Filed Under: Brad Cook, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Barton Fink, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, John Goodman, John Mahoney, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

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