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 […]
Sylvester Stallone to direct Frank Grillo in Nighthawks TV series
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 – […]
The A-Z of Action Movies: M-Q
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 […]
Tears in Rain: Rutger Hauer’s Underrated Film Gems | Marvelous Videos
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 […]
A Tribute to Rutger Hauer
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 […]
