Hit the pedal to the metal and practice your handbrake turns, it’s time for twenty epic car chases that will drive you wild… You can rely on the action genre to set your pulse racing with shootouts, fight scenes, foot chases and aerial duels. There’s another enjoyable kind of action sequence that genre fans love […]
15 Great Cinematic Journeys
Tom Jolliffe offers up 15 great cinematic journeys… When it comes to cinema, the very best films will grab the audience and keep us gripped throughout the runtime. Every character goes on a particular journey that can be literal and/or metaphorical. Those literal epic journeys which might see hobbits on a quest to take a […]
Rusty Nail vs Candy Cane: Revisiting Joy Ride at 20
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at 2001’s Joy Ride… Terror on the highways. A cat and mouse chase as unsuspecting folk wending their merry way across the long American highways, get targeted by a mysterious stalker. It worked in Duel when Steven Spielberg announced himself as a film-maker who might just be something special. […]
Marvelous Killer Car Horror Movies
Marvelous Videos presents killer car movies…. Over a million people die from an automobile-related incident/accident every year, yet for some reason these mechanical means of transportation do not frighten us. Perhaps it’s because they are a part of our societal structures, or maybe it is because we love the freedom they bring us. Regardless, cars […]
Blu-ray Review – Duel 50th Anniversary Edition (1971)
Duel – 50th Anniversary Edition, 1971. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Tim Herbert and Carey Loftin. SYNOPSIS: A travelling businessman is pursued across the Californian desert by a huge tanker seemingly hell bent on killing him. By the time Steven Spielberg made Duel in 1971 he had already directed […]
The Best Made-For-TV Horror Movies and Serials
Marvelous Videos presents the best made-for-TV horror flicks and serials… Just because something was consigned to television back in the day didn’t guarantee that it was bad. Far from it, the lower budget meant less studio heads, meaning more creative freedom for aspiring filmmakers interested in telling a scary story. They may get a bad […]
From Duel to Joy Ride: The DNA of John Hyams’ Alone
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at John Hyams’ latest film Alone, and delves into its DNA… In 2012, director John Hyams delivered a hell of a surprise package. It was his second film in a franchise that he took into wild (and occasionally divisive) avenues. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning was near visionary in scraping […]
Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems
Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]
IDW adapts Stephen King, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson with Road Rage, check out a preview here
IDW adapts Joe Hill and Stephen King’s Throttle and Richard Matheson’s Duel this week in the graphic novel Road Rage, which collects the 2012 issues Road Rage: Throttle #1 and #2, plus Road Rage: Duel issues #3 and #4; check out a preview here… On the isolated road of the American highway… terror rides on 18 wheels! […]
Making the Simple Great: The Power of a Top Director
Tom Jolliffe on the power of a top director… We’ve all seen great directors deliver complex films, perhaps sprawling with ideas and scope. Perhaps an engrossing retelling of an event in history. A director like Christopher Nolan has spent almost his entire career on weaving complex and intricately stranded high concept films. It takes a […]
