Anghus Houvouras on James Cameron’s Avatar… Avatar. The highest grossing movie of all time for a decade. Nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. It was a cinematic experience adored by critics and audiences showered in praise for its mind-blowing, bar-raising special effects that once again raised the bar for what is possible on the […]
Can we all just admit Ready Player One was terrible?
Anghus Houvouras on Ready Player One… Every movie doesn’t need to be a movement. These are some wise words spoken by one of cinema’s most prolific and revered voices: Myself. This deep kernel of wisdom was uttered sometime around the turn of the century when everyone was freaking out about the tragedy of Star Wars: […]
Is Amy Pascal’s departure from Sony good for Spider-Man or a disaster?
Anghus Houvouras on whether Amy Pascal’s departure from Sony is good for Spider-Man or a disaster… Sony took it on the chin last year with a slew of scandals that left them bruised and battered. In fact, ‘taking it on the chin’ might be an epic understatement. They got their skull beaten to a bloody […]
Across the Pondcast: What ever happened to Johnny Depp making good movies?
Across the Pondcast discusses… This week, the Across the Pondcast looks at the career of Johnny Depp and asks where it started to derail. Anghus (US) and Rohan (UK) pick out their favourite of Depp’s performances and then discuss what he can do to try and revive his flailing career in the wake of his latest […]
Rian Johnson, Neill Blomkamp and The Russos: Young Directors Selling Out
The Across the Pondcast returns once again for another episode! On today’s episode, Anghus Houvouras and Rohan Morbey sit down to talk about the latest trend in Hollywood – young indie filmmakers who move up to the studio system without much time to grow. Is it a good thing, is it a bad thing? Are […]
An Unsubstantiated Opinion: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Anghus Houvouras with an unsubstantiated opinion on Star Wars: The Force Awakens… An Unsubstantiated Opinion is a baseless and often reckless series of interconnected thoughts about what’s appearing on the pop culture landscape. The feelings expressed in this semi-regular column are admittedly troubling and often the subject of many private discussions among the Flickering Myth […]
The 10 Best Comic Book Movie Scenes
Anghus Houvouras with his 10 best comic book movie scenes… As I watched X-Men: Apocalypse this week, I marveled at a particular thought that was swimming around my cerebellum: Bryan Singer has directed four of the best comic book scenes ever staged. This seems somewhat surprising since the finished films end up being a mish-mash of […]
How Netflix exclusivity killed Glass Onion
Anghus Houvouras on Netflix and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery… The entertainment industry is smack dab in the middle of a massive paradigm shift. Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed changes in how people consume their entertainment. From the diminishing returns of physical media as a revenue stream for studios to a global […]
Andor: A Star Wars show by any other name…
Anghus Houvouras on Star Wars: Andor… “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” This is a quote from William Shakespeare where he establishes two things: 1. The convention of naming things is irrelevant 2. While being one of history’s greatest writers, he wasn’t […]
Avatar: The Most Successful Movie with Zero Cultural Impact
Anghus Houvouras on James Cameron’s Avatar and its total lack of cultural impact… We’re living in an age of entertainment extremism, where passionate fans go to ludicrous lengths to engage in hyperbolic talking points about their favorite film or franchise. It can be exhausting, wading through social media and hearing people make bold declarations not […]
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