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12 Essential Job Title Movies

May 10, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

Sometimes a movie does what it says on the tin, such as these movies named after job titles… Choosing the title of your movie can be one of the hardest tasks. Get it wrong, and you might find your film is wholly mis-sold or misinterpreted by audiences. That was one of the reasons William Friedkin’s […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Adventures of a Plumber's Mate, Blade Runner, Clerks, Cop, Personal Shopper, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, RoboCop, Showgirls, Stalker, Taxi Driver, The Boxer, The Driver, The Exorcist, The Handmaiden, The Lawnmower Man, The Piano Teacher, The Stripper, The Stuntman, The Transporter, The Wedding Singer, Timecop, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

12 Erotically Charged Thrillers You Need To See

May 2, 2026 by Tom Jolliffe

We get hot under the collar with twelve essential, erotically-charged thrillers… Erotic thrillers are experiencing something of a comeback and are arguably more mainstream than ever. Plenty of fare, once consigned to Skinemax cable premieres in the dead of night, are capturing audiences on the big screen or taking pride of place as streaming originals […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Snake of June, Basic Instinct, Body Double, Body Heat, Bound, Crimes of Passion, Death Among the Pines, Elle, Eyes Wide Shut, In the Realm of the Senses, Jill Rips, Last Tango in Paris, Lifeforce, Payback, saltburn, Scorned, The Handmaiden, The Housemaid, The Last Seduction, The Piano Teacher, Turkish Delight, Under the Skin, wild things

Incredible 21st Century Films You May Have Missed

July 23, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Keeping things post-millennium, here are 18 incredible movies from the 21st century that may have flown under your radar… The New York Times recently ran an opinion poll from both 500 industry folk and its readers to compile a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century. Among those listed are a number […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: A Fantastic Woman, a girl walks home alone at night, A Quiet Girl, A White White Day, Boy, Burning, frailty, Holy Spider, Joyland, La Chimera, Long Day's Journey Into Night, loveless, Parasite, Personal Shopper, Shiva Baby, Super Happy Forever, Teachers lounge, The Piano Teacher

20 Essential Criterion Collection Films

April 22, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to cast an eye on the Criterion Collection, a distribution company renowned for giving cult, classic and world cinema a new lease of life… The art of film curation and preservation is something one company in particular seems to exceed above all else. For the niche market of cinephile collectors, Criterion also has […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Featured, Movies, Physical Media, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blow Out, Brazil, Cries And Whispers, Cronos, Days Of Heaven, Diabolique, Do the Right Thing, Following, La Haine, Le Samourai, My Life as a Dog, Naked, On the Waterfront, Pale Flower, Paris Texas, Quadrophenia, Stalker, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Piano Teacher, woman in the dunes

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