When it comes to modern filmmakers, it’s not too often we hear Martin Scorsese express such reverence. However, in an upcoming book for Midsommar – released to celebrate the film’s first anniversary – Scorsese opens the piece with a wonderful introduction that praises not only the film but its director Ari Aster. Scorsese writes, “A […]
Giveaway – Win Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz on Blu-ray – NOW CLOSED
THE LAST WALTZ, Martin Scorsese’s legendary rock documentary featuring some of the world’s greatest musicians, is out now on Blu-ray as a part of The Masters of Cinemas Series, and we’ve got three copies to give away courtesy of Eureka Entertainment! Read on for details of how to enter… Perhaps the greatest rock documentary ever […]
The 1970s – The Best Era In Cinema History?
Tom Jolliffe on the 1970s and why it is the best era in cinema history… There will always be a great deal of debate about the best era for cinema. For my two cents I’ll say with a great deal of assurance that the best period in cinema history was the 1970’s. There was most […]
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon heads to Apple TV+
Having rescued Tom Hanks WWII drama The Greyhound from the choppy waters of release date purgatory, Apple have now performed their biggest streaming service flex yet by acquiring Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon for a potential Apple TV+ release. Deadline reports that Apple won a bidding war to become the studio in charge […]
The Greatest Director of All Time?
Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]
Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems
Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2010 Repression Double Bill: Inception and Shutter Island
Tom Jolliffe double bills Inception and Shutter Island… In my latest double bill we’re gonna kick it back a nice round decade to 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio, much as he still is, was one of the biggest stars on the planet. He wasn’t new to working with Martin Scorsese at this point and earlier in the […]
Movie Review – Uncut Gems (2019)
Uncut Gems, 2019. Directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. Starring Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Lakeith Stanfield, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Eric Bogosian, Jonathan Aranbayev, Mike Francesa, Jacob Igielski, Noa Fisher, Paloma Elsesser, Judd Hirsch, Benjy Kleiner, Josh Ostrovsky, Sahar Bibiyan, Lana Levitin, Keith Williams Richards, Pom Klementieff, The Weeknd, Trinidad James, Tilda Swinton, and […]
Could dumbing down cinema threaten the legacy of timeless classics?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the current monopolisation of cinemas from Hollywood tentpoles, and whether timeless classics are at risk of being forgotten… The debate has raged throughout the last half year. Martin Scorsese was at the forefront. Cinemas are being overrun with Theme park rides. The cultural, dramatic and thematic impact with some of these are […]
2019 in Review: Revisiting cinema’s biggest releases, news and talking points
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 2019 in film… Whilst we all come to terms with deleting and retyping 19 as 20 on documents, letters, invoices etc, lets make time to look back at 2019 and further confuse matters. As a year of cinema, 2019 has been interesting and with a usual mix of pop culture […]
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