Tom Jolliffe looks at the power a film’s final shot can have… There are many aspects that will make a piece of cinema stay long in your mind. You give yourself over to a film sometimes. It sweeps you away. Moments leave particularly strong and inedible impressions. One thing that many films will strive for […]
Oscars: Five Great Films That Should Have Been Nominated for Best Picture (But Weren’t)
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. […]
The year Heat was criminally overlooked by the Oscars
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Oscars in 1996, when Heat was criminally overlooked by the Academy… The year was 1996, which looked back over the films of the previous year. It was a fairly strong year, and like a lot of the nomination lists throughout that decade there are some oddities. There are also […]
Mann, Refn and the Safdies: Mastering Neo-Noir
Tom Jolliffe looks at a few examples of classic neo-noirs… Dark tales in rain sodden streets with the glistening neons of a big City. There comes that inevitable moment. A wrong choice, the self-destructive move to an inescapable corner. The neo-noir, the resurrection of the classic film noir genre that typified much of 30’s-50’s cinema. […]
Blu-ray Review – Heat: Director’s Definitive Edition (1995)
Heat: Director’s Definitive Edition, 1995. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Willliamson, Natalie Portman, Amy Brenneman, and Hank Azaria. SYNOPSIS: Heat has been released on Blu-ray before in a pretty definitive edition, but this new one features remastered video from a 4K […]
Heat prequel novel coming from Michael Mann and author Reed Farrel Coleman
From Michael Mann’s long career as a director, one of the films people point to as his best work is the 1995 crime thriller Heat, pairing the iconic Robert De Niro and Al Pacino together for the first time ever. Per Deadline, Mann has partnered with author Reed Farrel Coleman to create a prequel novel of […]
8 of the Best Movie Shootouts Ever
Ben Robins with eight of the best movie shootouts ever… With Ben Wheatley’s Boston-set shootout comedy Free Fire finally hitting UK screens this week, it seems only appropriate to remind ourselves of all the best and bloodiest gunfights to date, which there’ve been many of. In fact, narrowing it down to just the eight listed […]
Backstage heat between John Cena & returning WWE star, Kurt Angle WWE return update
Rumblings of Kurt Angle’s WWE return first started around Wrestlemania 32, when it came out that our Olympic Hero was in the same city as WWE’s biggest show of the year. But it didn’t happen. Then Angle said he had met with Triple H to talk about a return to the company, and that it’s […]
Backstage WWE Heat On Sasha Banks Raw Promo! | WrestleTalk News
While Michael Cole reminds us that this is the New Era at every opportunity, a lot of people have another name for this phase of WWE: The Injury Era. Seth Rollins was out of action until May after he blew his knee out last year. Both John Cena and Cesaro have undergone shoulder surgery. Randy […]
Another WWE Release! Major Heat on Cody Rhodes? | WrestleTalk News
The following is a guest post from WrestleTalk. Subscribe to their YouTube channel for new videos every day. In today’s WrestleTalk News, an update on WWE’s expansion into China, reported heat on Cody Rhodes and another WWE star is granted their release. WWE Targeting China Exapansion Many eyebrows were raised when it was announced that Chinese […]