Tom Jolliffe looks back at the glorious action gem Road House… To quote movie aficionado Gordy LaSure (aka Richard Ayoade) from his book The Grip of Film (excellent read I shall add); “In the opening shot of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 magnum opus about the secret world of security guards, the camera frames a pair of […]
Die Hard with Stallone, Seagal and Van Damme
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to the 90’s, when three action icons made Die Hard riffs… It’s often said that the buff action specialists of the 80’s, who were larger than life and almost comically unstoppable were slowly pushed out of the forefront of the market by more every man heroes. Die Hard is often pinpointed […]
1930’s-50’s: The Golden Age of Mystery Films
Tom Jolliffe on why the 30’s to 50’s were a golden age for mystery films… Whether it’s a murder mystery, or a cat and mouse quest to uncover a mystery, the 1930’s, up until the end of the 1950’s saw a prolific output of mystery films. Across world cinema, from Britain, to Hollywood to Europe […]
An Alternate Universe: Robert Pattinson plays The Joker
Tom Jolliffe on why Robert Pattinson could have been even more interesting playing the Joker rather than Bruce Wayne… So an admission of somewhat contradicting myself. I’d recently written a piece on the potential for Batman fatigue given there’s so much Bat related action coming in the next year or two. Yet here I am […]
Wesley Snipes and a Welcome Return to Character Acting
Tom Jolliffe looks at Wesley Snipes’ recent film work, and there seems to be a welcome shift to the kind of interesting character actor roles he was known for earlier in his career… Wesley Snipes saw something of a career down turn after hanging up his shades for Blade. Of course there have been well […]
An Action Classic That Never Happened: William Friedkin directs Stallone and Rothrock in The Executioner
Tom Jolliffe dives back to a potential action classic that never got rolling. Sylvester Stallone as directed by William Friedkin, with Cynthia Rothrock also attached at one point… Let’s talks action. Let’s throw the name of an icon into the mix…Sylvester Stallone. The man who gave the world Rambo and Rocky. At a time during […]
September: The Movie Dumping Ground
Tom Jolliffe looks back through the years at the month of September in Hollywood’s release calendar… Pretty much since Star Wars changed the face of film and ushered in the notion of the blockbuster, the cinema calendar has increasingly been segmented into pockets. Studios bet big and look to secure the summer releases. They tended […]
Are we at risk of Batman fatigue?
Tom Jolliffe on whether an overabundance of the Dark Knight could lead to Batman fatigue… How many Batman’s does it take to change a lightbulb? No I’m not the Riddler, before you ask. So in case you’re behind the times, there is a new Batman film in the works. Production was well underway before being […]
Ten Essential Films of the 2010s
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 […]
The Best Marvel Movie You Haven’t Seen: The Punisher
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at the first film version of The Punisher… We’re in full Marvel swing now. Not merely the official studio releases that have come with blistering regularity since Iron Man, but we’ve also had an array of X-Men and Spider-Man films from other studios. The success of Marvel comic creations […]
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