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The directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade

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Tom Jolliffe on the directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade… There’s a cinematic crossroads on the horizon. As the market gets swallowed up by a core consumer taste leaning toward spandex and radioactive arachnid bites, there’s a need for modern thinking, engaging directors to offer something different. After all, there’s only […]

The Return Of The Western

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Tom Jolliffe on the return of the Western… Cinema runs in cycles. A genre may have its run and then have a lull of 10-20 years where audiences aren’t really interested. In the 30’s and 40’s you couldn’t move for gangster films. In the 50’s it was epics and the 60’s there was a huge […]

Short Film Reviews – Guerrilla, Paper Kids and American Virus

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Tom Jolliffe reviews Shane Ryan’s Guerrilla, Paper Kids and American Virus… Independent American film-maker Shane Ryan, has tended to court a degree of controversy throughout his career. He’s directed a number of features, and shorts. A common strand running through them is a recurring theme of isolation, of being an outsider, and the dark corners […]

Movie Review – Bonejangles (2017)

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Bonejangles, 2017. Directed by Brett DeJager. Starring Reggie Bannister, Elissa Dowling, Kelly Misek Jr., Julia Cavanaugh, Devin Toft, Jamie Scott Gordon, Lawrence Wayne Curry, and Hannah Richter. SYNOPSIS: While transporting the unstoppable killer Bonejangles to an asylum, a group of police officers encounter a hellish pit stop: a cursed town where the dead rise from […]

Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing

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Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]

Tomorrow’s World: Part 2 – Modern Sci-Fi, the technology around the corner and how it may destroy us

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Tom Jolliffe on modern sci-fi, the technology around the corner and how it may destroy us… As far as Science Fiction goes, the film and TV shows that audiences have watched over the years have often featured some sense of foreboding. What happens if… This could be James Cameron’s Terminator which shows a world in […]

Movie Review – Tsunambee (2015)

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Tsunambee, 2015. Directed by Milko Davis. Starring Stacy Pederson, Ruselis Perry, Maria DeCoste, Shale Le Page, and Thea Saccoliti. SYNOPSIS: After a catastrophe strikes Los Angeles, survivors face an even greater threat, thousands of giant killer bees, ushering in the end of the world! So there we are in the Flickering Myth staff cave. The […]

Scarlett Johansson: Lost In Blockbusters!

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Tom Jolliffe on Scarlett Johansson… I’m a fan of Scarlett Johansson. As an actress I think she’s interesting. She’s almost always engaging. She has a sultry old fashioned quality. Frankly she’s gorgeous, which whilst that shouldn’t be as important as it is in Hollywood (and it still is) that means she is a leading lady. […]

Tomorrow’s World: Part 1 – Why Terry Gilliam’s Brazil represents our near future

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Tom Jolliffe on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil… Over the next week I will be looking at a selection of prescient films (and TV) which represent a cutting depiction of not only our present, but our near future. To start the ball rolling here, I consider Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece, Brazil. A look into a bleak, totalitarian future, […]