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Sirens from Space: Species and Under The Skin

December 1, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe double bills Species and Under The Skin… The sexy siren, luring men to their inevitable doom by taking on the form of a gorgeous woman. Like cats to catnip, the men salivate their way to demise. In one corner we have Species, the tale of a scientific splicing of human and alien DNA […]

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A Turn of the Century Cockney Gangster Double Bill

June 7, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe double bills two cockney gangster films from the turn of the century in The Limey and Sexy Beast… Toward the end of the last century, leading into the new one, the British gangster film really seemed to take off again. We saw the emergence of a number of significant exponents of the genre, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ben Kingsley, Jonathan Glazer, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Peter Fonda, Ray Winstone, Sexy Beast, Steven Soderbergh, Terence Stamp, The Limey

The directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade

July 30, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

Tom Jolliffe on the directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade… There’s a cinematic crossroads on the horizon. As the market gets swallowed up by a core consumer taste leaning toward spandex and radioactive arachnid bites, there’s a need for modern thinking, engaging directors to offer something different. After all, there’s only […]

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