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Movie Review – The Tracker (2019)

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The Tracker, 2019 Directed by Giorgio Serafini. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Cosimo Fusco, Anna Falchi, Marco Mazzoli and Marta Gastini. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious stranger travels to a remote village where, 15 years earlier, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. With Dolph Lundgren riding on a high following the double whammy of Aquaman and Creed 2 last year, […]

What We’d Like to See in John Wick: Chapter 4

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Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to John Wick: Chapter 4 and some things that would be great to see in the next one (John Wick 3 spoilers follow)…  With John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum giving Avengers: Endgame a good old fashioned German (actually Belgian) Shepherd nut savaging at the box office on its opening weekend and […]

Revisiting the Universal Soldier Franchise

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Tom Jolliffe revisits the Universal Soldier franchise… With today’s home entertainment release of director Roland Emmerich’s WWII epic Midway, now seems a good time to revisit the original Universal Soldier, and the eclectic sequels the director’s 1992 sci-fi action film spawned. Universal Soldier The early 90’s. In the wake of Terminator 2: Judgment Day came […]

Movie Review – Acceleration (2019)

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Acceleration, 2019. Directed by Michael Merino and Daniel Zirilli. Starring Natalie Burn, Dolph Lundgren, Sean Patrick Flanery, Danny Trejo and Chuck Liddell. SYNOPSIS: A mom has one night to do some tasks in LA requiring a gun, if she wants to see her son alive. He’s held by a mob boss. I’m a sucker for […]

Le Tigre: The Dolph Lundgren/Andrzej Zulawski Film That Never Was

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Le Tigre. A film that never was with the strange combination of Dolph Lundgren and director Andrzej Zulawski… Cinema is absolutely loaded with films that came tantalisingly close to seeing the light of day before falling at the final hurdle. Even this year will bring us a new Bond film, […]

An Action Star’s Worst Nightmare: Kids

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the now long standing tradition of the action star having to tackle their toughest foe – children… When you think of some of your favourite action heroes of the last 30+ years, we’ve seen them take on all comers. They’ve fought terrorists, criminals, sometimes beings from other worlds, but their […]

Silent Trigger: Straight-to-Video Arthouse Action

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Tom Jolliffe looks at an interesting entry into mid-90’s, straight to video action as Dolph Lundgren plays a haunted assassin in Silent Trigger… By the time action titan, Dolph Lundgren had reached the middle of the 90’s, he’d become pretty much established as a video specialist. Though he’d make an appearance in the Keanu Reeves […]

A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)

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Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)… When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, […]

The Best Marvel Movie You Haven’t Seen: The Punisher

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at the first film version of The Punisher…  We’re in full Marvel swing now. Not merely the official studio releases that have come with blistering regularity since Iron Man, but we’ve also had an array of X-Men and Spider-Man films from other studios. The success of Marvel comic creations […]

The Halcyon Days of the Video Store Experience

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Tom Jolliffe casts his mind back to the era of video stores – a rite of passage for people growing up in the 80’s and 90’s… During my early years the infrequent but welcome visits to the local video shop brought with them, a huge wave of excitement. Perhaps second only to a cinema outing, […]