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Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

November 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Expend4bles, Expendables, Harrison Ford, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Mission: Impossible, Sylvester Stallone, taken, The Equalizer, The Matrix Resurrections, Tom Cruise

Gary Daniels: Britain’s Original Martial Arts Action Hero

February 2, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of British action star Gary Daniels… If you’re into action (and particularly anything to do with Martial arts) and you enjoy seeing some of Britain’s finest flying the flag, then you’ll probably know about Jason Statham and Scott Adkins. There’s another Martial Arts icon that genre fans might well […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bloodmoon, city hunter, Cold Harvest, Expendables, fist of the north star, Gary Daniels, rage, Recoil, Riot, The Gardener, Vengeance, White Tiger

Is Hollywood going to lose a golden goose in China?

March 30, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at an evolving landscape in Chinese cinema, a market that pre-pandemic, had Hollywood seeing dollar signs… Hollywood still remains the hub of cinema around the world. As an entity it churns out money spinning blockbusters across America, and across the world. For a long time the US market seemed to be far […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Avengers, detective chinatown 3, Expendables, Hi Mom, terminator Gensisys, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Transformers: The Last Knight, Wolf Warrior 2

The Millennium Films Problem

December 27, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the output and upcoming slate of Millennium Films… For around 20 years now, Millennium – which spawned off as a theatrical venture from their lucrative straight to video production company Nu Image (which produced countless action and horror pics in Africa, and then more prominently, Bulgaria) – has been producing mid-budget […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Avi Lerner, Expendables, Hellboy, Millennium Films, Olympus Has Fallen, Righteous Kill

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