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The Essential Paranoia Films

July 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up an essential selection of paranoia films… Who likes a good hearty dose of paranoia? Okay, in real life it’s not too enjoyable. In cinema? It’s a gift for film-makers looking to tap into that feeling within their audience. There are a lot of great examples of paranoia-themed films, and when a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blow Out, Cutters Way, Eyes Wide Shut, Les Diaboliques, Marathon Man, Pi, Repulsion, The Conversation, The Machinist, The Thing

Great Films Unfairly Forgotten in Time

April 9, 2023 by Gary Collinson

Tom Jolliffe on great films unfairly forgotten in time… Time is a cruel mistress. It’s the one constant and something no one can alter (except Marty McFly and Doc Brown). Looks go, memories fade and in cinematic terms a film can be forgotten over time. Now sometimes it’s probably a good thing. Take for example […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Simple Plan, Barton Fink, Dark City, frailty, insomnia, Jackie Brown, Near Dark, Pacific Heights, Strange Days, The Conversation, They Live, thief, True Lies, videodrome

1975: The Year Francis Ford Coppola Dominated the Oscars

March 26, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back to the 1975 Academy Awards ceremony, when Francis Ford Coppola had The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation in competition… With the Oscars around the corner, now is a good time to look back at the 1975 ceremony. It was a year filled to the brim with exceptional films. Among an […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola, Oscars, The Conversation, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II

Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems

January 6, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bound, Duel, Francis Ford Coppola, insomnia, Jackie Brown, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, The Abyss, The Conversation, The Wachowskis

The Short Lived Maestro of Second Fiddle: John Cazale

August 12, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of John Cazale… On the 12th of August, John Cazale would have been 85. Who is John Cazale? Well here’s the thing…A late bloomer in Hollywood, Cazale broke into cinema at the same time as a good friend of his: Al Pacino. Pacino, five years Cazale’s junior, was […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Dog Day Afternoon, John Cazale, The Conversation, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II

A Lasting Final Shot

June 3, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the power a film’s final shot can have… There are many aspects that will make a piece of cinema stay long in your mind. You give yourself over to a film sometimes. It sweeps you away. Moments leave particularly strong and inedible impressions. One thing that many films will strive for […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Heat, Ivan's Childhood, No Country for Old Men, Psycho, Rocky, Runaway Train, Stalker, Taxi Driver, The Breakfast Club, The Conversation, The Godfather, The Shining, The Terminator, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Withnail and I

The 1970s – The Best Era In Cinema History?

June 1, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on the 1970s and why it is the best era in cinema history… There will always be a great deal of debate about the best era for cinema. For my two cents I’ll say with a great deal of assurance that the best period in cinema history was the 1970’s. There was most […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Al Pacino, Andrei Tarkovsky, Coffy, death wish, Foxy Brown, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Rocky, shaft, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, The Conversation, The Godfather

Techno-Thrillers in Film: From The Satan Bug to The Invisible Man

May 3, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Hasitha Fernando on techno-thrillers in film… If you’ve read enough books and watched your fair share of films, chances are you’ve heard the term ‘techno-thriller’ being tossed around from time to time. For the uninitiated this particular genre is a hybridization of many others, drawing inspiration from awe inspiring sci-fi dramas to white-knuckling espionage thrillers. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Enemy of the State, Ex Machina, Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Nerve, Paycheck, source code, The Andromeda Strain, The Conversation, The Hunt For Red October, The Satan Bug, Upgrade, WarGames, westworld

When You Need To Watch A Film Twice

August 3, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at when you need to watch a film a second time to fully appreciate it… A couple of days ago one of my Flickering Myth brethren Neil Calloway wrote a piece about watching classic films for the first time and finding them boring. The piece certainly got a reaction, from no less […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Francis Ford Coppola, Only God Forgives, Stalker, The Conversation, The Godfather, The Matrix, Withnail

The 4 Spider-Man Storylines We Need In the MCU

July 3, 2017 by Ben Robins

Ben Robins on the 4 Spider-Man storylines we need in the MCU… With this month’s Spider-Man: Homecoming marking the third big screen incarnation of the famous wall-crawler in the 21st century alone, you’d think we’d be hard-pressed by this stage to find storylines that hadn’t already been adapted at least somewhere down the line. We’ve […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Ben Robins, Comic Books, Movies Tagged With: Amazing Spider-Man, Clone Saga, Infinity War, Kraven the Hunter, Kraven's Last Hunt, Marvel, Maximum Carnage, MCU, Sam Raimi, Spider-Man, Spider-Man No More, The Conversation, Tom Holland, Venom

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