The Connection (La French), 2014. Directed by Cédric Jimenez. Starring Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, and Benoît Magimel. SYNOPSIS: French police magistrate Pierre Michel wages an obsessive six-year battle to bring down Marseilles’ infamous “French Connection” drug ring. A motorcycle weaves through the traffic where it connects with a car where the passengers are executed at […]

The Judge, 2014. Directed by David Dobkin. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard, and Billy Bob Thornton.   SYNOPSIS: A big-city lawyer returns home when his estranged father, a small-town judge, is accused of murder. An unscrupulous attorney returns to his home town for the funeral of his mother […]

The Gate (Le temps des aveux), 2014. Directed by Régis Wargnier. Starring Raphaël Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, and Kompheak Phoeung. SYNOPSIS: Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity. A native of France spends his […]

Dukhtar, 2014. Directed by Afia Nathaniel. Starring Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, and Saleha Aref.   SYNOPSIS: Fleeing with her ten-year-old daughter after the girl is promised in marriage as part of a peace treaty, the wife of a tribal chieftain is pursued through the mountains by both her husband and the intended groom’s henchmen. A tribal conflict […]

The Flickering Myth writing team discuss the new Batmobile… After a few photos of the Batmobile for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice leaked online, a rather perturbed Zack Snyder took to Twitter and revealed the first official photo of the Batmobile in all of its glory. It seems to have split opinion among the […]

Luke Owen reviews the fifth episode of The Monday Night War on the WWE Network… Read the previous episode review here. Following the rather preposterous previous episode that claimed silly things about the influence D-Generation X had on the ratings war between WWF and WCW, we get a rather sweet look back at the career of […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #15… “THE GREAT BEAST” The son of Xiaolain and Death faces the Horsemen and becomes everything that the Message foretold. Apocalypse: Year One concludes with EAST OF WEST #15.” And just when you thought an epic battle was about to be waged between Texas and The Endless Nation…East of […]

Luke Owen reviews the fourth episode of The Monday Night War on the WWE Network… Read the previous episode review here. As we’ve discussed in the previous episode reviews, we’ve come to expect a certain amount of revisionist history when it comes to The Monday Night War. If you want the real truth of how […]

The Wizard of Oz, 1939 (2014 re-release in IMAX 3D). Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Judy Garland, Terry “Toto” the dog, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, with Charlie Grapewin and Clara Blandick, and the Singer Midgets as the Munchkins. SYNOPSIS: Young Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets whisked off on […]

With production underway, we should be expecting some footage or a trailer coming out of the set of Marvel’s Daredevil in the next few months. But with shows like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards pushing the boundaries you can’t push on regular TV via Netflix, will the Man Without Fear be […]