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None More Nineties: Why Speed is the ultimate 90s action film

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Robb Sheppard on the ultimate 90s action movie, Speed… The 1990s witnessed a changing of the guard when it came to action movies. Speed crashed into 1994 and went from being “that bus movie” to one of the decade’s finest straight-up action films. Alongside the gloriously OTT Con Air, the far-fetched Face/Off, and Michael Bay’s […]

Fan Casting Disney’s Live-Action Hercules Remake

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EJ Moreno on his picks to play roles in Disney’s Hercules remake… Disney is moving forward with a live-action remake of its iconic 1997 animated film Hercules, with Avengers: Endgame’s Russo Brothers in the producer’s chair and Dave Callaham, the writer of the upcoming Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and […]

No Laughing! When Comedians Get Serious

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Tom Jolliffe looks at when comedic actors take on more challenging (and sometimes darker) material… When you’re a star renowned for a particular genre, it can be hard to break out of that. Over the years, many a comedy star has become synonymous with churning out an array of comedy vehicles. It’s often easier to […]

A Turn of the Century Cockney Gangster Double Bill

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Tom Jolliffe double bills two cockney gangster films from the turn of the century in The Limey and Sexy Beast… Toward the end of the last century, leading into the new one, the British gangster film really seemed to take off again. We saw the emergence of a number of significant exponents of the genre, […]

Runaway Train: From Russian Arthouse to The Cannon Group

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at one of Cannon’s finest, Runaway Train… If you’re not familiar with the output of a certain iconic independent studio that were prolific in the 80’s, then chances are, of a certain age you probably saw or heard about a number of their films. It might be Masters of […]

Who Are The Worst Film Directors? | Flickering Myth TV

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What makes someone one of the worst movie directors of all time? Join EJ and Allen as they open up this discussion about some of the directors labelled as bad, and how they feel about people like Zack Snyder, Uwe Boll, and even James Cameron in the latest episode of Flickering Myth TV! Check out […]

Three Films and Six Van Dammes: The JCVD Dual Role Routine

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s dual role films… Who doesn’t love an action star? Oi, put your hands down now! Still, for us that do, we all have our favourites. Occasionally there were rivalries and camps. You could be an Arnold Schwarzenegger kid or a Sylvester Stallone kid. Maybe you were secretly […]

Extreme Cinema – The Idiots (1998)

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The Idiots, 1998. Directed by Lars von Trier. Starring Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing and Nikolaj Lie Kass. Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (Idioterne, 1998) features the potentially offensive story of a group of middle class people who pretend to be handicapped as they are unhappy with society. The film begins with Karen […]

Extreme Cinema – Nekromantik

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Nekromantik, 1987. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt and Colloseo Schulzendorf. SYNOPSIS: The relationship between a pair of necrophiles hits the rocks when the female prefers sexual relations with a rotting corpse than that of her living partner. If you were to make a list of all of the […]