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Halloween vs Christmas: Which Season Reigns Supreme in Cinema?

November 8, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Halloween season is over, and it’ll soon be Christmas and onto some festive favourites, but which is the better season for film fans? We’ve just seen out Halloween and for many, a month of bingeing on horror cinema, old, new, good and (enjoyably) bad. No sooner does the dust settle and the pumpkins are left […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Die Hard, Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, halloween, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, The Lord of the Rings

The Essential Action Movies of the 1980s

May 3, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe with his picks of the essential 1980s action movies… Cheesy, excessive, over the top and funny. Something about the 1980s action movie marks it as the most extravagant, bold and explosive era of the genre. The 90s infused MTV stylistics into the genre and certainly went for a flashier style of shooting and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Above the Law, Armour of God, Bloodsport, Commando, Death Wish 3, Die Hard, Invasion USA, Lethal Weapon, Police Assassins, Rambo: First Blood Part II, red scorpion, Road House, The Killer, Yes Madam

7 Essential Christmas Action Movies

November 17, 2024 by admin

Coinciding with the release of Red One, Casey Chong presents a selection of festive-themed action films… Christmas is traditionally a season of spreading joy and getting together with family, friends and loved ones. Not to mention watching movies from something funny to heartfelt and inspiring to get into the yuletide spirit. Holiday classics like It’s […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Batman Returns, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Enemy of the State, Lethal Weapon, Red One, Violent Night

The Best and Worst Christmas Movie Presents

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Christmas is a time for giving. Some presents are great, some are terrible, and we’ve seen plenty of both in Christmas movies… It’s the season of goodwill and sharing festive cheer (and beer) with friends and family. Big Red dumps his goods down the chimney and kids across the land open their presents in baited […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Bad Santa, Die Hard, home alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, Santa Claus: The Movie

An Action Christmas: Ten Action Movies Set At Christmas

December 24, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up ten action films set at Christmas… It’s time to pull your cracker and polish your baubles. Yep, Christmas is upon us. This means a festive period with a watch list of decidedly Christmassy films. By law we’ll all be watching Home Alone, The Snowman and It’s a Wonderful Life. Christmas is […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christmas Rush, Cobra, Dark Angel, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Invasion USA, Lethal Weapon, Project Shadowchaser II, Riot, the long kiss goodnight

Die Hard on a Shoestring: The Low Budget Die Hard Clones

December 7, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

As the festive season approaches and Die Hard becomes mandatory viewing, we take a look at some low budget clones… It may not have been the first of its kind, but when Die Hard came out, from the moment Bruce Willis entered the Nakatomi plaza, a new sub-genre all of its own was launched – […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Blast, Breakaway, Command Performance, Die Hard, Irresistible Force, Shadowchaser, Skyscraper

Bruce Willis: A Career

April 4, 2018 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies Tagged With: 12 Monkeys, Bruce Willis, death wish, Die Hard, Looper, Sin City, The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense

It Happened One Night: The Essential Single Night Movies

August 5, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

There’s misadventures from dusk ’til dawn as Tom Jolliffe presents ten essential one night movies… The humble night odyssey. A protagonist finds them self on a dusk ’til dawn journey or quest. There have been plenty of films over the years which have taken place in a very contained period of time. We’ve seen a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: After Hours, American Graffiti, Assault on Precinct 13, Clue, Die Hard, Glengarry Glen Ross, harold and kumar go to white castle, Judgment Day, Miracle Mile, The Warriors

The Ultimate Christmas Movie Douchebags

December 25, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tis the season to be jolly but it’s also the season to be a douchebag, if some of these iconic Christmas movie douches are anything to go by… We’ve all known a steaming douchebag in our time. It could be someone with an ego that melds perfectly with a shit-eating grin, or someone who takes […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 8-Bit Christmas, A Christmas Story, Chandler Dean, David Gillen, Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Don Ameche, Gary Bamman, Hart Brochner, home alone, It's a Wonderful Life, Jingle All the Way, John Glover, Lionel Barrymore, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Phil Hartman, Ralph Bellamy, Scrooged, Trading Places, William Atherton, Zack Ward

Flickering Myth’s Christmas Movie Guide

December 23, 2023 by Chris Gelderd

Chris Gelderd presents Flickering Myth’s Christmas Movie Guide… It’s that time of year already. Stuck for something to watch to get you in the festive spirit, or do you need to kill time with the family? Look no further than our selection of top ten Christmas films that will guarantee to leave you feeling (mostly) […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Chris Gelderd, Movies Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, Christmas, Christmas Bloody Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks, Die Hard, Elf, Father Christmas Is Back, home alone, Jingle All the Way, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Santa Claus: The Movie, Santa Who, Scrooged, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Santa Clause 3, Trading Places

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