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6 Great Rutger Hauer Sci-Fi Films That Aren’t Blade Runner

May 29, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Blade Runner made Rutger Hauer an icon of the sci-fi genre, but don’t miss out on these six other wild sci-fi films… The late great Rutger Hauer saw things you people wouldn’t believe. Having made a name for himself as an acclaimed star in his native Holland, a Hollywood break soon beckoned. After a couple […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blade Runner, crossworlds, Deathline, Omega Doom, Redline, Rutger Hauer, Salute of the Jugger, Split Second, the blood of heroes, The Hitcher, Wedlock

4K Ultra HD Review – The Hitcher (1986)

September 30, 2024 by admin

The Hitcher, 1986. Directed by Robert Harmon. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Armin Shimerman. A young man picks up a hitchhiker whilst crossing the desert, only to be unable to escape from the murderous traveller. It has been a long time coming but finally Robert Harmon’s 1986 thriller […]

Filed Under: Chris Ward, Movies, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Armin Shimerman, C.Thomas Howell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Harmon, Rutger Hauer, The Hitcher

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

10 Stunning Performances Outrageously Snubbed by the Oscars

March 10, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s the Oscars, so it’s time to look at ten stunning performances the Academy outrageously snubbed… Oscar season is an exciting time of the year. It’s fair to say that every year, for one reason or another, contentious decisions are made as well as glaring omissions. The desperation from some actors to snag an Oscar […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blade Runner, David Thewlis, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Gene Hackman, Hereditary, In the Heat of the Night, Isabelle Adjani, Jim Carrey, Naked, Parasite, Paul Giamatti, Possession, Rutger Hauer, sideways, Sidney Poitier, Song Kang-ho, The Conversation, Toni Collette

Five films to watch in preparation for Nicolas Cage’s Sympathy for the Devil

July 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

We offer up five films that will warm you up perfectly for the upcoming (and bound to be a cult hit) Nicolas Cage film Sympathy for the Devil… Nicolas Cage is a gift from the cinema Gods. His Cagenaissance in recent years has seen him in an array of colourful films like Color Out of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Alone, Ben Affleck, C.Thomas Howell, Changing Lanes, Cillian Murphy, John Hyams, Joy Ride, Jules Willcox, Leelee Sobieski, Marc Menchaca, Nic Cage, Nicolas Cage, Paul Walker, Rachel McAdams, red eye, Robert Harmon, Rutger Hauer, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Zahn, Sympathy for the Devil, The Hitcher, Wes Craven

The Importance of Film Archives and Curated Selections

October 20, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the importance of archiving seminal films, and giving new life to forgotten classics and cult titles…. Cinema history is etched with key figures. Mould breakers, revolutionaries, and visionaries. Fritz Lang, leading the German expressionist era. Orson Welles breaking tradition and Hollywood protocols. Maybe Brando thundering an arrow through the conventions of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Crimes of Passion, Legend Of The Holy Drinker, Metropolis, Rutger Hauer, Stalker

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: batman begins, Blade Runner, Blind Fury, Blood of Heroes, Hobo With A Shotgun, Legend Of The Holy Drinker, Nighthawks, Rutger Hauer, Soldier Of Orange, The Hitcher, Wanted: Dead or Alive

November 2019: Welcome to Blade Runner

November 1, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Blade Runner in the month and year it was set… Remember when 2014 was coming to an end? There was a clamour of snorting giggles as people bemoaned the impending 2015’s lack of self drying clothes, flying cars, hydropizza and hover-boards. Granted, Back to the Future Part II did get […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Daryl Hannah, Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

A Double Hit of Cyberpunk from 1992: Nemesis and Split Second

April 2, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at a pair of cyberpunk infused sci-fi films from 1992… The year is 1992. Video shops are still a thing. I spend many an hour perusing them and there are a number of VHS covers that stamp themselves into my brain and will remain fresh in my mind almost 30 years. These […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Albert Pyun, Alun Armstrong, Kim Cattrall, nemesis, Olivier Gruner, Pete Postlethwaite, Rutger Hauer, Split Second, Tim Thomerson, Tony Maylam

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

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