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10 Great Movies from the Once-Dominant Carolco Pictures

May 17, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong with ten great films from Carolco Pictures…. Those who lived through the 80s and 90s era will likely remember the good old days when a certain independent studio dominated the Hollywood landscape. That studio in question is Carolco Pictures, which brought us a mix of iconic genre-defining hits and even underrated gems from […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Basic Instinct, Chaplin, Cliffhanger, First Blood, Jacob's Ladder, Rambo: First Blood Part II, red heat, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, Universal Soldier

Ten Underrated Movies From 1988 That Deserve More Love

December 9, 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, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, 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

How Schwarzenegger Reigned Supreme in the Action Genre

July 30, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

As Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 73, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the period where the Austrian Oak ruled action cinema, with an eye for quality material… As Arnold Schwarzenegger turns another year older, now would be a good time to look back to an era of global box office domination, and cult appeal in the action […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Last Action Hero, Predator, Raw Deal, red heat, Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, True Lies, Twins

Three Rs with Arnold Schwarzenegger: Raw Deal, Red Heat and The Running Man

April 2, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at three Rs from Arnold Schwarzenegger in Raw Deal, Red Heat and The Running Man… If you’re a physical media hound with a penchant for alphabetizing, who also happens to be a Schwarzenegger fan, chances are you’ll have three great Arnie flicks in close proximity to each other. In Arnold chronology […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Irvin, Paul Michael Glaser, Raw Deal, red heat, The Running Man, Walter Hill

Red Heat receiving 4K restoration release this October

September 29, 2019 by Gary Collinson

StudioCanal has announced the upcoming release of a brand new 4K restoration of the classic 1988 Walter Hill-diretced buddy cop action film Red Heat starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi. SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Amazon UK or Amazon US Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a Russian cop sent to Chicago to extradite a Russian […]

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