Deadgirl, 2008. Directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel. Starring Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan and Candice Accola. SYNOPSIS: Two high school boys bunk off school to go drink beers in the local abandoned insane asylum – what could possibly go wrong? How about discovering a bound and gagged naked (un)dead woman… Rickie and JT are […]
Quit While You’re Ahead: Why Bad Boys 4 is Too Much of a Good Thing
Tom Jolliffe looks at the prospect of Bad Boys 4 after the success of Bad Boys For Life… Bad Boys For Life, a long awaited third entry in the franchise, came out earlier this year to not only the best reviews of the series, but a surprisingly strong opening weekend on its way to almost […]
Extreme Cinema – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Clockwork Orange, 1971. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, and Warren Clarke. In a future British society law and order has completely broken down allowing gangs of youths to roam the streets looking for trouble. Arrested for murder, gang leader Alex Delarge is reconditioned and set free into this […]
Michael Bay’s Crowning Glory: The Rock
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Michael Bay’s greatest film… Michael Bay. Just how does one sum up the man’s cinematic legacy? Cast your mind back to the mid-90’s. He hurls himself onto the world stage and with ruthless aplomb figuratively unzips and plonks Bay Jnr down on the table and announces a new form of […]
Extreme Cinema – The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Last House on the Left, 1972. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Gaylord St. James and Cynthia Carr. The early 1970s was the period in which America was a nation bitterly divided over the Vietnam War. Wes Craven, a then young director of exploitation […]
The Greatest Action Directors of All Time
Tom Jolliffe looks at the greatest action directors of all time… The action genre has never particularly had the greatest respect associated with it. Maybe there’s a feeling that they’re dramatically anaemic, or sometimes intellectually inferior, but this isn’t always the case. It’s a genre that doesn’t always have consistent specialists, because certain directors who […]
What Happened To Alex Proyas?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career, rise and fall of Alex Proyas… Born to Greek parents in Egypt and subsequently raised in Australia, you could say that Alex Proyas has an interesting background. He started, as a lot of film directors have, in music videos (working with the likes of INXS and Sting). To many […]
The Greatest Director of All Time?
Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]
I Don’t Get It: The Films We’re Supposed To Love But Don’t
Tom Jolliffe looks at when films receive almost universal praise from critics and audiences, and an expectation that you should also love them. It’s not always the case… The year is 2001. At this point I’ve already seen a few David Lynch films. I’d never (still haven’t) got round to Twin Peaks. I sort of […]
The Top 5 Film Scores from J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World
Hasitha Fernando on the top five film scores from J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World… Author J.K. Rowling literally created magic when she penned the first few sentences of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. But even she might have been unprepared to believe, back then, what a pop-culture phenomenon it would go onto become eventually. The […]
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