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Tom Jolliffe

10 Essential Frankenstein-Inspired Films

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Tighten those neck bolts, it’s time for ten essential Frankenstein-inspired movies… Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary classic and one of my all-time favourite books, from an era of fiction I love. The tale of the titular doctor creating a reanimated monster has inspired plenty of literature since but it has also provided ample inspiration […]

10 Essential Films From 1984

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It’s time to venture back 40 years as we look at the best movies of 1984… The 80s were a glorious era for movies and music. As the years drift on, the kids born and raised in the decade such as me, suddenly find themselves in their 40s, careering headlong to the big 5-0. When […]

5 Underrated Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies

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The Muscles from Brussels returns soon with Darkness of Man, so here’s five of his most underrated films to get you in the mood… There are two kinds of people who don’t like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Crazy folk and Steven Seagal. The rest of us love to partake in a little bit of Van Dammage, […]

Ten Essential British Horror Movies You Have To See

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Tom Jolliffe looks at ten essential British horror movies… We love a good horror film at Flickering Myth (so much so that we’re making own very own with The Baby in the Basket!). British cinema has produced many great horror films that are definitely inspiring and we’ve put together a list of essentials for you to […]

A Triple Hit of Vintage Pam Grier

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Tom Jolliffe looks back on three of Pam Grier’s iconic Blaxploitation era films, Foxy Brown, Coffy and The Big Bird Cage… Remember the theme song for The Spy Who Loved Me? Nobody does it better… Well, when it comes to being the undisputed Queen of Blaxploitation cinema, really, nobody did it better than Pam Grier. […]

Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels

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They’ve all been championed as some of the best of their genre but are these bloated and overlong sequels really that good? I love event cinema, especially when it’s good and in recent years, although we’ve seen an increasingly mediocre output from Disney and Marvel, we’ve still seen some pretty great blockbuster cinema. Top Gun: […]

Great Movies Guaranteed To Creep You Out

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Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of unsettling cinema guaranteed to give you the creeps… Every film has a particular D.N.A. Within this cinematic coding it can feature elements synonymous with a particular genre, or techniques to give the film an overriding tone. For horror, the film-makers could mould their film in a variety of […]

How Will Quentin Tarantino Bow Out?

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After scrapping his planned final film The Movie Critic, Quentin Tarantino needs a new project for his tenth and final film… Quentin Tarantino needs no introduction. To even casual moviegoers, his name carries the kind of weight that few directors have managed in modern cinema. Whether you think he’s a cinematic deity, or vastly overrated, […]

Cannon’s Avengers: What If… Cannon Films Did the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Here in the Flickering Myth multiverse, we look at how a Cannon-produced Avengers epic may have been cast… The Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed an unprecedented run of success after Robert Downey Jr kicked off a major era in movies back with 2008’s Iron Man. Some might not have enjoyed the all-powerful grip that the MCU […]

The 10 Best Villains in Sylvester Stallone Movies

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Every hero needs a formidable villain and action titan Sylvester Stallone has faced plenty. We look at the ten best villains in Stallone movies… Most action films live or die on the strength of the villain. An underwhelming villain can kill a film, especially if the hero isn’t all that interesting. We’ve taken a look […]