The story so far: after making a splash with Tuxedo Warrior and GBH, Cliff Twemlow’s movie career seemed to stall, with his homebrew straight-to-video outfit still producing new material but having serious issues with following through and actually getting them to market – a good chunk of the material I reviewed in the second part … Continue reading The Highs and Lows of Cliff Twemlow, Part 3| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: modern-day Renaissance man Cliff Twemlow has seen his book of bouncer street philosophy, Tuxedo Warrior, adapted into a movie with the same name but a barely-related premise. Bitten by the filmmaking bug, he’s made the infamous video nasty GBH, the espionage actioner Target: Eve Island, and the metafictional drama The Ibiza … Continue reading The Highs and Lows of Cliff Twemlow, Part 2| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Cliff Twemlow was, for a window of time, was the toughest dude in hyper-low-budget British genre cinema, writing a string of movies, featuring in them, and acting as the catalyst for a pocket-sized movie industry in his home city of Manchester. How tough was he? So tough that Tough Guys, perhaps the best song in … Continue reading The Highs and Lows of Cliff Twemlow, Part 1| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy