Luke Owen reviews Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake Harris… Of the many arguments and conversations had by school kids in the playground of the early nineties, ‘Sega vs. Nintendo?’ was one of the most hotly-contested. While Nintendo had the reputation and a library of amazing games like Super Mario […]

A Girl at My Door (Dohee-ya), 2014. Directed by July Jung. Starring Kim Sae-ron, Bae Doona, and Song Sae-Byeok. SYNOPSIS: Banished to provincial purgatory after a censure for misconduct, a former star of the Seoul police force finds her maternal instincts unexpectedly awoken when she meets a troubled teenage girl. Exiled to a rural town to serve […]

X+Y, 2014. Directed by Morgan Matthews. Starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, and Jo Yang.   SYNOPSIS: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad. An autistic boy is in a fatal car accident which results […]

A Tomb with a View, 7 mins, 2014. Directed by Ryan J. Noth. Elevating its departed occupants considerably closer to heaven rather than entombing them six feet under, Memorial Necropole Ecumenica is the world’s tallest cemetery. Towering proudly alongside its fellow skyscrapers in the expansive São Paulo skyline, this one-of-a-kind mausoleum and its equally unique owner […]

The Imitation Game, 2014 Directed by Morten Tyldum. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Allen Leech and Tuppence Middleton.   SYNOPSIS: English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. A break and enter to the house of an eccentric Cambridge Mathematics professor whose off-handed and demeaning manner about the […]

Good Kill, 2014. Directed by Andrew Niccol. Starring Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood, and Jake Abel.   SYNOPSIS: A troubled Air Force officer (Ethan Hawke) charged with directing drone strikes enters a moral minefield as the rationale for targeting purported terrorists becomes questionable. A former fighter pilot is grounded doing drone missions from the […]

October Gale, 2014. Directed by Ruba Nadda. Starring Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth, and Callum Keith Rennie.   SYNOPSIS: A doctor takes in a mysterious man when he washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound and soon discovers that his would-be killer is on his way to finish the job. A doctor grieving […]

Samba, 2014. Directed by Olivier Nakache, and Eric Toledano. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Sy, Tahar Rahim, and Izia Higelin.   SYNOPSIS: A recent migrant to France fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker. An illegal immigrant named Samba who has been caught by French authorities is assisted by a […]

Flickering Myth sat down with Seth Rogen to talk about Bad Neighbours, now today on DVD… FM: How did you get involved with this project? SR: A few years ago, Evan Goldberg and I had been trying to find something to work on with the writers, Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien, and they came […]

1001 Grams, 2014. Directed by Bent Hamer. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge, Hildegun Riise, Per Christian Ellefsen, Peter Hudson, Dinara Droukarova, Christian Erickson, Didier Flamand, and Magne Håvard Brekke. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced, work-obsessed lab technician finds herself encountering a whole new world of experience when she attends an important scientific conference in Paris. […]