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10 Great Movies from the Once-Dominant Carolco Pictures

May 17, 2025 by admin

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 and Opinions, 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

The 10 Best Villains in Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies

March 16, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of cinema’s greatest action heroes and he’s come up against some great villains. Here’s the 10 best! Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the defining heroes of the 1980s and early 90s, ruling the action genre alongside Sylvester Stallone and making up one-half of an iconic cinematic rivalry. When you look through […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Dance, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, conan the destroyer, End of Days, Escape Plan, Gabriel Byrne, James Earl Jones, Jim Caviezel, Kevin Peter Hall, Last Action Hero, Michael Ironside, Predator, Robert Patrick, Ronny Cox, Sarah Douglas, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, Vernon Wells

Paul Verhoeven isn’t a fan of the RoboCop and Total Recall remakes

January 11, 2024 by EJ Moreno

Paul Verhoeven has seen the remakes of Total Recall and RoboCop that came out in the 2010s, and he’s not happy about them. In a recent interview with Metrograph (reported by World of Reel), the director spoke about the remakes and gave his candid takes on what they got wrong about his original work. Verhoeven […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop, Total Recall

The Essential Movies About Memory

July 2, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tattoo this list to your chest, because you’ll want to remember these essential films about memory…  The brain is a complex machine and memories are a fascinating and complicated part of being human. As a cinematic motif, memory has provided filmmakers with a huge amount of inspiration in so many unforgettable films. We’ve seen films […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Citizen Kane, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Memento, Mirror, Mulholland Drive, Shutter Island, Solaris, the bourne identity, Total Recall, Vertigo, Wild Strawberries

The 90s VR Movie: The Lawnmower Man had a lot to answer for

June 14, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the wave of straight to video Virtual Reality films that followed in the wake of The Lawnmower Man in the mid to late ’90s… The idea of virtual reality worlds has been something of a sci-fi staple for many decades. Cronenberg toyed with the concept in Videodrome. Philip K Dick’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Albert Pyun, Arcade, brainscan, Brett Leonard, Cybertech P.D, Expect No Mercy, Grid Runners, Hologram Man, Sci-Fighter, Strange Days, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, Total Recall, videodrome, Virtual Assassin, Virtual Combat, virtuosity

Terrible Remake Ideas: Past, Present, Future

February 1, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at ten unnecessary remakes from the past and coming soon that no one asked for… Hollywood is full of interesting and original ideas. Studios are actively looking to pursue new concepts and move away from simply repackaging or updating existing IPs. Okay, I’m fibbing. Hollywood is desperately scraping any old idea they […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Conan the Barbarian, Highlander, Ocean's Eleven, Point Break, Psycho, Road House, RoboCop, The Crow, The Hitcher, The Killer, Total Recall

Philip K. Dick & Hollywood: The Essential Movie Adaptations

December 17, 2022 by admin

With the Phillip K. Dick Film Festival taking place this weekend, Hasitha Fernando on the essential Philip K. Dick movie adaptations… The name Philip K. Dick needs no introduction. The indefatigable author’s works have dazzled the minds of readers the world over for several decades now. Hollywood, however, took some time to recognize the author’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Bureau, Total Recall

The Maestros of 80s Action Movie Music

October 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at a golden period in action movie scores and some of the maestros who composed them… What is the golden age of action movies? This is of course a rhetorical question. It’s undoubtedly the 1980s. A time of such unique flair and style. Big, bold, brash, silly, sometimes ironic. It was a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 48 Hours, Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris, Beverly Hills Cop, Bill Conti, Commando, Die Hard, First Blood, Harold Faltermeyer, Highlander, James Horner, jerry goldsmith, john carpenter, Lethal Weapon, Masters of the Universe, Michael Kamen, Predator, RoboCop, Top Gun, Total Recall

What film will get you back to the cinema?

May 20, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ponders what will get you back to cinemas, and what he will be triumphantly returning for… Cinema has taken a hell of a beating in the last year. Early signs of recovery have been promising in the US, as studios cope with readjusted expectations, and attempt to build a new model that may […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: F9, Fast 9, Mortal Kombat, No Time to Die, Spiral, Stalker, Taxi Driver, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Total Recall

4K Ultra HD Review – Total Recall (1990)

December 7, 2020 by Brad Cook

Total Recall, 1990. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox. SYNOPSIS: Total Recall was remastered in 4K for this new edition that also includes a digital code, as well as a copy of the movie on Blu-ray. Three new bonus features, including a comprehensive look at the […]

Filed Under: Brad Cook, Movies, Physical Media, Reviews Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Ironside, Paul Verhoeven, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox, Sharon Stone, Total Recall

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