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Ten Underrated Movies From 2013 That Deserve More Love

September 15, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Shock horror! 2013 was a decade ago now and we’re going to dive back and look at some underrated films that deserve more love… 2013 still feels like last week to me. Actually, 1993 still feels a bit like that. Time flies pretty fast but let’s consider what the year 2013 offered cinematically. It was […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, News, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Filth, Joe, Locke, ninja: shadow of a tear, Oblivion, Snowpiercer, The Double, The Last Stand, The Wolverine, Under the Skin

Sirens from Space: Species and Under The Skin

July 23, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe double bills Species and Under The Skin… The sexy siren, luring men to their inevitable doom by taking on the form of a gorgeous woman. Like cats to catnip, the men salivate their way to demise. In one corner we have Species, the tale of a scientific splicing of human and alien DNA […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Glazer, Lifeforce, Marg Helgenberger, Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Roger Donaldson, Scarlett Johansson, Species, Under the Skin

20 Great Performances from the Past Decade

December 28, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at 20 great performances from the past decade… There have been plenty of legendary performances through the years. Some gain the greatest of acclaim from the off, culminating in Oscar glory. Others hit below the radar, or don’t get the marketing push required for an Oscar run. Award season is in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Years a Slave, Adam Sandler, Anthony Hopkins, Avengement, Burning, Chadwick Boseman, Elle, Frances McDormand, Hereditary, isabelle huppert, jake gyllenhaal, jk simmons, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Locke, Lupita Nyong'o, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, mads mikkelsen, Nightcrawler, olivia colman, Parasite, Scarlett Johannson, Scott Adkins, Song Kang-ho, Steven Yeun, The Father, The Favourite, The Hunt, The Lighthouse, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Hardy, Toni Collette, Uncut Gems, Under the Skin, Viola Davis, Whiplash, Willem Dafoe

Ten Essential Film4 Films

August 13, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with ten essential films from Film4… Film4, under the Channel 4 banner, has championed great cinema for nearly 40 years. Whether producing independently or co-producing (often with indie studios or European production houses), there’s a stamp of quality that comes associated with the mark of Film4 (or Channel 4 films). For the most […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Croupier, In Bruges, Naked, Paris Texas, The Cook The Thief The Wife And Her Lover, The Father, The Full Monty, This Is England, Trainspotting, Under the Skin

Marvelous Alternate Dimension Horror Movies

July 2, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos presents horrific encounters from another dimension… The idea of alternate dimensions is both exciting and horrifying. That there are parallel Earths or phases of the universe that exist alongside ours is cool, but what changes could they have? And would their inhabitants be hostile, friendly, ambivalent, or even human? Science fiction has taken […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: Coherence, From Beyond, In the Mouth of Madness, Marvelous Videos, Silent Hill, the baby's room, the banshee chapter, The Cloverfield Paradox, the drownsman, The Mist, Under the Skin

Ten Essential Films of the 2010s

September 1, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers 10 essential films from the past decade… As a miserablist of impending middle age, I’ve often joked with friends my age (and perhaps with a demi-truth belief) that music died in 1994. On the subject of cinema, I’ve increasingly found in opining (the increasingly difficult task of selecting personal favourites, or creating […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Years a Slave, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Get Out, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mandy, Moonlight, The Survivalist, Under the Skin

Under the Skin TV series moving forward as rights issue settled

May 9, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Back in February it was revealed that financier Silver Reel and studio A24 were locked in a bidding war for the rights to the Scarlett Johansson-headlined 2013 sci-fi horror Under the Skin, and now comes word that Silver Reel has come out victorious, and is now free to push on with its plans for a […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin

Under the Skin heading to the small screen with TV adaptation

February 1, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that a bidding war is underway for a potential TV series adaptation of the 2013 sci-fi horror film Under the Skin, with the movie’s original financier Silver Reel and studio A24 said to be going “toe-to-toe” over the rights. Based on the novel by Michel Faber, Under the Skin was directed by […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Under the Skin

Scarlett Johansson in Rough Night: The Most Awkward Performance Ever?

October 26, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look at what might be the most awkward performance ever, Scarlett Johansson in Rough Night… Cinema is full of great performances. Some actors become synonymous with certain characters, or genres and that synergy between part and person is perfect. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a perfect cyborg. Jack Nicholson is so perfectly Jack […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Lost In Translation, Rough Night, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers, The Black Widow, Under the Skin

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon sci-fi movie parody posters released

September 30, 2019 by Amie Cranswick

With its release less than three weeks away, StrudioCanal has released four parody posters for the Aardman’s new animated sci-fi comedy adventure A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon which pay homage to Gravity, Signs, Under the Skin and 2001: A Space Odyssey; take a look here… When the intergalactic visitor – an impish and adorable […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Gravity, Shaun the Sheep, Signs, Under the Skin

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