Tom Jolliffe on why Nicolas Cage at his wildest is a gift to cinema… To say Nic Cage is a divisive character would be quite the understatement. Likewise, as an actor. You could say, with great understatement, that he’s an oddball. As an actor, you could also say he tends to be most known for […]
Too Much Johnson to Handle: How Jesse V. Johnson (with help from Scott Adkins) is keeping old school action alive
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the work of director Jesse V. Johnson… If you’re in the UK right now and you like action films you might have seen a recent double helping of Johnson (that’s my last ‘Johnson’ gag I swear) pop up. Streaming platforms dual dropped a double whammy of Triple Threat and […]
Totally Sponge Worthy: 30 Years of Seinfeld
As Seinfeld celebrates its 30th Anniversary, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the iconic sitcom… It’s been over 20 years since the final episode of a 9 season run brought Seinfeld to a close. The show ‘about nothing’ has just hit 30 years old since the airing of the first episode. Jerry Seinfeld would play the […]
Why it’s time for the #NotMyAriel movement to grow up
Tom Jolliffe looks at the recent furore surrounding the casting of Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid… As comes with many casting decisions, the recent announcement that Halle Bailey has been cast as Ariel in the Disney reboot of The Little Mermaid has been met with a mixed reaction. For the most part people seem quite […]
A Little Bit Of Love For Tom Cruise
Tom Jolliffe shows his appreciation for Tom Cruise on the actor’s 57th birthday… Approaching 40 years in the industry. Tom Cruise has spent over 30 of those as a superstar. He’s been a box office behemoth. A star turn, a headliner and a poster boy for blockbuster pulling power. He’s also been maligned and dismissed. […]
The B to Z of Movies: How B Movies Ruled the Cinema
In this short series of features, Tom Jolliffe will look at the humble B Movie and everything below. From the golden period of B cinema, to the rise in popularity of the B picture, to the underground mavericks making films on a shoe string from the 50’s right up to the present. To begin with, […]
After the Endgame: Can Marvel Studios Do It Again?
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the MCU’s success to this point, and wonders whether they can repeat the formula again… So the dust has settled. A whole slow building 11 year phase of Marvel films (it’s had splits in among those, but everything stems all the way back to Tony Stark’s first outing). Attempting to […]
90s Video Action Stars Part III – Hulk Hogan, Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, Loren Avedon, Jeff Speakman and Bobbie Phillips
Tom Jolliffe returns with the latest instalment of the 90s Video Action Stars Rampage [read part one and part two]… At this stage in my revisit of 90’s video action stars, I find myself not only dredging through the dark recesses of my brain in order to think up who to run the rule over […]
Goblins, Monsters, Brown Loafers and Paranoid Schizophrenia: The True Nature of Labyrinth
Tom Jolliffe goes deep underground in the Labyrinth to uncover a darker underbelly… Celebrating its 33rd anniversary, the cult kids classic, Labyrinth has grown in reputation over the years. Initially an unsuccessful theatrical release, critically dismissed (as many kids films tended to be then), it has spent the best part of 32 years invading the […]
Essential Cinema: Wake In Fright
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at the Australian outback classic, Wake In Fright… Occasionally I’ll see a film which almost escaped attention upon initial release. Perhaps a great piece of cinema that didn’t quite stick upon its release. Wake In Fright, a key landmark in Australian cinema never quite captured the world outside the […]
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