Neil Calloway, Author at Flickering Myth

The Callow Way – How a Hollywood flop got £20 million from the British taxpayer

January 11, 2015 by Neil Calloway

This week Neil Calloway looks how 47 Ronin qualified for a subsidy from the UK government… Have you seen 47 Ronin? If you haven’t, I wouldn’t bother if I was you. It’s That-Historical-Film-You’ve-Seen-A-Hundred-Times-Before. An outsider, after being saved by the daughter of a great man, helps a group of natives. It’s very very loosely based […]

The Callow Way – On Stealing Films

January 4, 2015 by Neil Calloway

This week Neil Calloway looks at the most pirated films of 2014… It may have not won any Oscars, but this week The Wolf of Wall Street was given a more dubious honour; it was the most pirated movie of 2014. According to reports, it was illegally downloaded 30 million times. The Wolf of Wall […]

The Callow Way – The Global Box Office in 2014

December 28, 2014 by Neil Calloway

This week Neil Calloway looks at what made money in 2014, and what to expect at your local multiplex in 2015… What’s the highest grossing film of 2014? I’d have guessed Guardians of the Galaxy, and with regard to US box office, I’d have been correct. Internationally however, the highest grossing film of 2014 is […]

The Callow Way – In praise of The Black List

December 21, 2014 by Neil Calloway

This week Neil Calloway comes to praise, not bury The Black List everyone wants to be seen on… What have Juno, In Bruges, Source Code, Easy A, The Social Network and Argo all got in common? They’re all good, well written films from the past ten years. Invite me over to watch any of them […]

The Callow Way – Why the Sony hack is hilarious but depressing

December 14, 2014 by Neil Calloway

Neil Calloway is amused but disappointed by the release of emails from Sony… It’s an old adage that show business is High School with money, and the release of emails that followed the hacking of Sony Pictures seems to prove it’s just like Mean Girls or Heathers, but where people earn $3 million dollar salaries […]

The Callow Way – Why I’m stopping watching trailers

December 6, 2014 by Neil Calloway

This week, Neil Calloway is suffering from trailer fatigue… 1st July 2015, 6th November 2015, 17th December 2015. What are you doing on those dates? I bet some of you know already. For those that don’t know, they are the release dates for Terminator: Genysis, the new Bond film, Spectre, and the latest film in […]