12 Monkeys, 1995. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: Arrow has issued 12 Monkeys on disc again. This time it’s a 4K Ultra HD release that ups the image quality from their 2018 Blu-ray, albeit in ways that are likely only noticeable to people watching on […]
Essential Time Travel Movies Part II
Tom Jolliffe offers up a second round of essential time travel movies… Having already established that cinema has a longstanding fascination with time travel with my previous ten essentials, it’s high time to add another ten to the mix. As a starting point for so many films it goes without saying that there have been […]
A Terry Gilliam Christmas
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Brazil and 12 Monkeys, released in December 1985 and 1995 respectively… Former Python animation specialist, Terry Gilliam turned his hand to film direction and became known for creating films absolutely loaded with visual whimsy and outlandishly creative ideas. The limits of budget never stifled Gilliam’s own limits despite some frustrations, […]
The Alternative Halloween Viewing List
Tom Jolliffe offers up a selection of non-horror films to watch this Halloween season, which might just be prescient enough to be horrific… Halloween’s just for horror right? Well what if we’re not watching horror? What if we’re watching action or sci-fi or comedy? It may just be that some of these films have a […]
Pandemics in Cinema: Ten Great Films Based on Disease Outbreaks
Hasitha Fernando on pandemics in film… The devastating effect of the recent outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cannot be overstated. With the disease continuing to spread like wildfire, multiple countries have been brought to their knees, their economies in shambles and casualty numbers rising. Over the years Hollywood has put forth myriad films that deals with […]
Blu-ray Review – 12 Monkeys (1995)
12 Monkeys, 1995. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Bruce Willies, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: Deciding whether to pick up another copy of 12 Monkeys depends on whether you’re interested in the new restoration, which looks quite nice, and a couple new bonus features, one of which is a 1996 interview with […]
12 Monkeys season 4 gets a trailer and premiere date
Syfy has revealed a teaser trailer the fourth and final season of the sci-fi thriller series 12 Monkeys along with a premiere date announcement of June 15th; watch it here… In the year 2017, a deadly plague wipes out over 90 percent of the world’s population, leaving only a small percentage immune. In 2043, James Cole, a man […]
Bruce Willis: A Career
Looking back on the career of Bruce Willis… On 6th April, Bruce Willis will star in the new action-packed crime drama Death Wish directed by famed horror filmmaker Eli Roth. Following an attack on his wife and daughter, Paul Kersey (Willis) dedicates himself to seeking justice for his family and also avenges other innocent victims […]
Best Short To Feature Length Films
Inspired by this week’s release of Lights Out, a progression from director David F. Sandburg’s 2013 short of the same name, we have picked out six of the best short films that were so successful they made it to the big screen. After all, if you can tell a good story in just a few minutes, […]
New featurette for the 12 Monkeys TV series
Following on from last week’s new poster, Syfy has now dropped a featurette for its upcoming TV adaptation of the 1995 in the States next month. Check it out right here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P3JfmbUmSGE 12 Monkeys will premiere on Syfy on January 16th, with a cast that includes Aaron Stanford (X2: X-Men United), Amanda Schull (Suits), Noah […]
