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Essential Cult 80s Movies You May Have Missed

November 10, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten great cult 80s films you may have missed… The cult film. From the obscure gems with an undying loyalty from their small following, to the mass cults who followed Star Wars back in the 80s (it’s now probably too huge, mainstream and widely spread across mediums to be considered cult). Sometimes […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: After Hours, Lifeforce, Miracle Mile, Repo Man, Streets of Fire, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Hidden, The Paperhouse, The Quiet Earth, To Live and Die in L.A.

Perfect Non-Horror Movies for Halloween Viewing

October 31, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at some non-horror films that will still creep you out, disturb you or deliver a nightmarish scenario… It’s almost Halloween and so the perfect time to dive into some horror. The genre sees a perfect boost during Halloween season but a film doesn’t need to belong to the horror genre to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Alfonso Cuaron, Anthony Edwards, Anthony Hickox, Anthony Perkins, Apocalypse Now, Contaminated Man, Dolph Lundgren, Donald Pleasence, Francis Ford Coppola, george clooney, Gravity, Javier Bardem, Jeff Burr, Jill Rips, Josh Brolin, martin sheen, Miracle Mile, Natasha McElhone, No Country for Old Men, Old Boy, Orson Welles, Park Chan-Wook, Peter Weller, Safdie Brothers, Sandra Bullock, Spoiler, The Coen Brothers, The Trial, Uncut Gems, Wake In Fright, william hurt

Ten Underrated Movies From 1988 That Deserve More Love

September 21, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1988 to look at ten underrated movies which deserve more love… It’s 2023 and that means that the cinematic year of 1988, stuffed with some classics and cult favourites like Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!) and Die Hard, was 35 years ago. Pick yourself up off the floor and shake the shock […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Amsterdamned, As Tears Go By, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Frantic, Maniac Cop, Midnight Run, Miracle Mile, red heat, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Great Outdoors, The Lair of the White Worm, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Serpent and the Rainbow, They Live, Vice Versa, Waxwork, Young Einstein

It Happened One Night: The Essential Single Night Movies

August 5, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

There’s misadventures from dusk ’til dawn as Tom Jolliffe presents ten essential one night movies… The humble night odyssey. A protagonist finds them self on a dusk ’til dawn journey or quest. There have been plenty of films over the years which have taken place in a very contained period of time. We’ve seen a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: After Hours, American Graffiti, Assault on Precinct 13, Clue, Die Hard, Glengarry Glen Ross, harold and kumar go to white castle, Judgment Day, Miracle Mile, The Warriors

Seven Essential Films Scored By Tangerine Dream

August 23, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at seven essential films, and their music from Tangerine Dream… In recent cinematic history there has been a nostalgia loaded fascination with synth scores. The kind of music that was popular through the late 70’s and 80’s, would begin to find itself increasingly used in film. After all, a few solo artists […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Firestarter, Legend, Miracle Mile, Near Dark, Risky Business, Sorcerer, Tangerine Dream, thief

Blu-ray Review – Miracle Mile (1988)

October 16, 2017 by Robert W Monk

Miracle Mile, 1988. Directed by Steve De Jarnatt. Starring Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Denise Crosby, John Agar, Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson, and Kurt Fuller. SYNOPSIS: After answering a pay phone at four in the morning and hearing a message warning of all-out nuclear war, a young man must find his new love and try and […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert W Monk Tagged With: Anthony Edwards, Denise Crosby, John Agar, Kurt Fuller, Lou Hancock, Mare Winningham, Miracle Mile, Mykelti Williamson, Steve De Jarnatt

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