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10 Great Forgotten Gems of the 1980s

June 13, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

We take a look at ten great hidden gems from the 1980s; how many have you seen…? The 1980s was an eclectic melting pot of cinema. Blockbusters and franchises were becoming a big thing. The success of home video also gave films a place to succeed beyond the cinema screens. Cinema fandom has always clustered […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Avenging Force, Body Double, Nighthawks, One Deadly Summer, One From the Heart, Opera, Roadgames, Running Scared, The Man With Two Brains, the wraith

The 10 Best Villains in Sylvester Stallone Movies

April 1, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Every hero needs a formidable villain and action titan Sylvester Stallone has faced plenty. We look at the ten best villains in Stallone movies… Most action films live or die on the strength of the villain. An underwhelming villain can kill a film, especially if the hero isn’t all that interesting. We’ve taken a look […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Antonio Banderas, Armand Assante, Assassins, Brian Dennehy, Brian Thompson, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, Dolph Lundgren, Donald Sutherland, Eric Roberts, First Blood, Jack Palance, James Woods, Jason Mamoa, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Lithgow, Judge Dredd, lock up, Mr T, Nighthawks, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rutger Hauer, Steven Berkoff, Tango and Cash, The Expendables 2, Wesley Snipes

The Film and TV Reboot Explosion

September 27, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at a current explosion of reboots in film and TV, with many from properties no one remembers anyway… The idea of a reboot isn’t exactly unfamiliar. Hollywood is on a very well worn trail that is littered with remakes, reboots, sequels, whatever you want to call them. Some might say Hollywood has […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Candyman, Charlie's Angels, Eraser, Flight of the Navigator, He's All That, Nighthawks, Point Break, She's All That, The Hitcher, Turner and Hooch

Sylvester Stallone to direct Frank Grillo in Nighthawks TV series

September 18, 2021 by Gary Collinson

During an appearance on The Beard and the Bald Podcast, The Purge and Captain America actor Frank Grillo has revealed that he’s set to star in a limited series TV remake of the 1981 neo-noir thriller Nighthawks, with original star Sylvester Stallone in the director’s chair. “We’re redoing Nighthawks as a limited TV series – […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: Frank Grillo, Nighthawks, Sylvester Stallone

The A-Z of Action Movies: M-Q

July 25, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

As we continue are A-Z of action, we bring you a selection of entries from M-Q… Explosions, fist fights, one liners and quite a lot of mullets. We’re getting toward the business end of an action A-Z, hitting the middle ground toward the home straight. More carnage will ensue and we’ve all got bigger biceps […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Maximum Risk, Men of War, Midnight Man, nemesis, Nighthawks, ninja: shadow of a tear, Only The Strong, Out for Blood, Out for Justice, Passenger 57, Point Break, Project A, Quigley Down Under, The Quest, The Quick and the Dead

Tears in Rain: Rutger Hauer’s Underrated Film Gems | Marvelous Videos

July 29, 2020 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos with a selection of cult classics from Rutger Hauer’s filmography… The “Tears in Rain” monologue from Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner stands as one of the best speeches in film history. It perfectly captured questions of humanity, existentialism, and mortality that we all think about at some point or another. And yet, it would not […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos Tagged With: Blind Fury, Flesh + Blood, Marvelous Videos, Nighthawks, Rutger Hauer, Salute of the Jugger, Split Second, The Hitcher, Wanted: Dead or Alive

A Tribute to Rutger Hauer

July 24, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe pays tribute to Rutger Hauer after the news of his passing…  I’ve been a huge fan of Rutger Hauer from the very first time I watched Blade Runner. The film shouldn’t have connected so instantly with me, for someone so young, but it did. Though it was Harrison Ford a.k.a. Solo, a.k.a. Indiana […]

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