Tom Jolliffe looks at a golden period in action movie scores and some of the maestros who composed them… What is the golden age of action movies? This is of course a rhetorical question. It’s undoubtedly the 1980s. A time of such unique flair and style. Big, bold, brash, silly, sometimes ironic. It was a […]
The Essential 80s Action Movies
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 […]
Ultimate Evil Movie Villains from the 1980s
Marvelous Videos presents 80s movie villains who were deliciously evil… Man, what was it about the 80s that made their action genre so damn good? This was an era that somehow knew where to draw the line between B-movie thrills and A-list production value. The writers, directors, and producers were all aware of the core […]
Commando at 35: Revisiting the Arnold Schwarzenegger Action Classic
Tom Jolliffe revisits the Schwarzenegger classic Commando, which recently turned 35… It pains me to think a seminal film from my childhood has now turned 35. I probably first saw Commando some 30(ish) years ago. That would make me? Urgh, like the old Knight Harrison Ford stumbles on in The Last Crusade probably. Or at […]
How Schwarzenegger Reigned Supreme in the Action Genre
As Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 73, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the period where the Austrian Oak ruled action cinema, with an eye for quality material… As Arnold Schwarzenegger turns another year older, now would be a good time to look back to an era of global box office domination, and cult appeal in the action […]
Four classic Capcom arcade titles coming to Android and iOS devices
Capcom have announced that they will be bringing four of their classic arcade favourites to Android and iOS devices “within the next few months”. These gems of gaming are 1942 Mobile, Ghosts ‘N Goblins Mobile, Ghouls ’N Ghosts Mobile and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando Mobile. Each of the four games are completely faithful to their originals yet […]
Ten ZX Spectrum Games You Have To Play!
Villordsutch with ten ZK Spectrum games you have to play… As I’ve happily played through the Your Sinclair Top 100 over the past three months I’ve also had the chance to trawl through my wide variety of numerous other games too. Granted not all these games been great – as seen in the Top 5 […]
Steven de Souza talks his Commando 2 script – did it become Die Hard?
As previously stated, we at Flickering Myth love Commando. Which is why we’re always upset that it never got a sequel – only it very nearly did! One of the Internet’s most famous rumours is that the script for Commando 2 eventually became Die Hard, the movie that launched the action career of Bruce Willis. However, […]
Commando: Director’s Cut heading to Blu-ray
“Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last… I lied!” Here at Flickering Myth, we’re big fans of the Arnold Schwarzenegger action classic Commando. It is, perhaps, the perfect movie. We love the action, we love the guns, we love the one-liners, we love Arnie, we love the deer feeding scene. We even love […]