Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Vanessa Thorpe, for The Guardian, writes today (Sunday, March 4th) about a change to what cinemas show: “Tomorrow, the Royal Opera House will release its new feature film, Madam Butterfly 3D, and the team behind the production argue it is not just a cheaper option for opera fans, […]

The acclaimed illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie passed away on Saturday at his home in Berkeley, California, aged 82. A name that will be instantly familiar to Star Wars fans, McQuarrie was one of the most influential figures in science fiction and fantasy art and his visionary illustrations were key to defining […]

Project X, 2012. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Nichole Bloom and Alexis Knapp. SYNOPSIS: Three high school friends plan to gain popularity by throwing a party, only for proceedings to rapidly escalate beyond their control. Found footage films are fast becoming a cinematic phenomenon. You’re seeing more and […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The big talking point this past week was of course the arrival of the second theatrical trailer for Marvel’s epic superhero team-up The Avengers (or Marvel Avengers Assemble, as it’s now officially known here in the UK), which debuted online on […]

John Carter, 2012. Directed by Andrew Stanton. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, Thomas Haden Church, James Purefoy and Bryan Cranston. SYNOPSIS: Civil War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is transported to the war-torn planet of Mars and becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions, […]

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, 1994. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea and Christian Slater. SYNOPSIS: A vampire chronicles his eventful life to a journalist. There is an inherent sex appeal that is often alluded to within vampire films, particularly within the earlier horror […]

Tom Jolliffe presents a selection of the action genre’s greatest douchebags… Cinema has created many wonderful characters over the years. We’ve had classic heroes, and the most heinous of villains. Heroes and villains are particularly paramount in the action genre. There’s also another type of character: The Douchebag. These would be the whiny, sniveling, low […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Eric Barba and Sean Faden about the making of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… “David [Fincher] is great at knowing and describing what he wants,” states Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Barba who was rewarded with an Oscar for his reverse aging work on […]

An explanation of our new ratings system here at Flickering Myth… The New York Latino Film Festival ran a humorous, albeit snarky, advertising campaign a couple of months back. Its posters featured graphical representations comparing the clichés found in two types of narrative cinema: FILMS, those done for flash, and MOVIES, those done for cash. […]

Phone Booth, 2002. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker and Katie Holmes. SYNOPSIS: A man receives a call in a phone booth and realises that he is being watched. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a fast-talking publicist who has made a living out of lying. Stu seemingly has it all […]