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Brilliantly Simple But Insanely Thrilling Movies

June 9, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Sometimes, less is more! Check out these wildly thrilling movies with brilliantly simple concepts… The great thing about cinema is that it has something for everyone. You want action, you can find it. Comedy? We got you. Rob Schneider films? Each to their own. Many a Christopher Nolan film has perplexed and bewildered audiences with […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Duel, Jaws, Mad Max: Fury Road, Phone Booth, Predator, Speed, The Hitcher, The Warriors

The Must-See Movies of 2015

May 14, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at the cinematic offerings of 2015 with ten must-see modern classics from ten years back…  A look down our time telescope to a decade ago sees us peek into 2015 with a Robert Eggers picture to behold as well as a thriving horror genre offering up plenty of cult gems. So […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Bone Tomahawk, Green Room, Mad Max: Fury Road, Our Little Sister, Sicario, Tangerine, the gift, the lobster, The Survivalist, the witch

10 Movie Franchises That Need To End

October 17, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

With a remake, reboot, or sequel every week, it’s time to look at ten franchises that need to end… Look at a coming soon list of mainstream movies across the next 12 months and you’ll notice something. The titles all seem familiar. We’ve been there and we’ve done it already. Sometimes for 10 movies no […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Alien, Alien: Romulus, Aliens, Evil Dead, fast and furious, Furiosa, Ghostbusters, indiana jones and the dial of destiny, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Star Wars, Star Wars: Andor, Terminator, Terminator 2, The Fast and the Furious, The Mandaloran, XXX 3

The Mad Max Movies Ranked

May 23, 2024 by admin

Casey Chong ranks George Miller’s Mad Max saga… George Miller’s works may have been diverse from horror (Twilight Zone: The Movie) to drama (Lorenzo’s Oil) and comedy (Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet), but he’s always been synonymous with post-apocalyptic action genre that made him a household name in the first place. His Mad […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mel Gibson, Tom Hardy

What Are The Best Female-Led Blockbusters?

August 1, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at eight of the best women-led blockbusters… We are entering almost unknown territory with the success of Barbie. As the film inches to half a billion in just one week of release, we see a female-led (and female-directed) blockbuster hit heights we never thought possible. With only Captain Marvel in the billion-dollar […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Barbie, Captain Marvel, Charlie's Angels, Frozen, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Wonder Woman

Movies Not Filmed Where You Think They Were

August 10, 2022 by admin

We all know that movies, particularly major Hollywood movies, film all over the world, cherry-picking locations with just the right backdrop for even just a few clips. From luxury destinations to deserted buildings, thinking that the characters are in the places that the script says they’re in doesn’t always add up. Still, even though the […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Judy, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Dark Knight

Propelled to Greatness by Set Pieces: A Maverick Approach to Action Cinema

June 8, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at two of the best action films of the last decade, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick… There are great films. There are great action films. Attaining greatness through your action amounts to nailing your set pieces and imbuing proceedings, with just enough characterisation to give the propellant action some […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Charlize Theron, George Miller, Jennifer Connelly, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Miles Teller, Tom Cruise, Tom Hardy, Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick

George Miller says don’t expect to see Mad Max: The Wasteland any time soon

May 24, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

Mad Max: Fury Road

While George Miller is in Cannes with his fantasy-romance Three Thousand Years of Longing, it has afforded journalists the opportunity to ask him about the sequels and prequels to his 2015 modern classic Mad Max: Fury Road, one of which is currently in production, and another that he says reveals is “further down the chain”. […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Furiosa, George Miller, Mad Max, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mad Max: The Wasteland

The Essential Action Movies of the 21st Century

May 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up a list of essential 21st Century action films… As an action aficionado and self-confessed old git, I quietly nod in a small amount of agreement with Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese’s Marvel/modern cinema shade. I grew up in an era when action was performed almost entirely in camera, with an eye […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Avengement, Casino Royale, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, John Wick 3: Parabellum, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minority Report, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Ong-Bak, Snowpiercer, taken, the bourne ultimatum, The Dark Knight, The Raid, Upgrade

4K Ultra HD Review – Mad Max Anthology

November 17, 2021 by Brad Cook

Mad Max Anthology Directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie. Starring Mel Gibson, Tom Hardy, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Bruce Spence, Mike Preston, Max Phipps, Vernon Wells, Emil Minty, Kjell Nilsson, Virginia Hey, Tina Turner, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossito, Paul Larsson, Angry Anderson, Robert Grubb, Helen Buday, Charlize Theron, […]

Filed Under: Brad Cook, Movies, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Abbey Lee, Adam Cockburn, Angelo Rossito, Angry Anderson, Bruce Spence, Charlize Theron, Courtney Eaton, Emil Minty, Frank Thring, George Miller, George Ogilvie, Helen Buday, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Kjell Nilsson, Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Anthology, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, Max Phipps, Mel Gibson, Mike Preston, Nicholas Hoult, Paul Larsson, Riley Keough, Robert Grubb, Roger Ward, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Tina Turner, Tom Hardy, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Zoe Kravitz

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