Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

The Greatest Action Directors of All Time

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the greatest action directors of all time… The action genre has never particularly had the greatest respect associated with it. Maybe there’s a feeling that they’re dramatically anaemic, or sometimes intellectually inferior, but this isn’t always the case. It’s a genre that doesn’t always have consistent specialists, because certain directors who […]

Quit While You’re Ahead: Why Bad Boys 4 is Too Much of a Good Thing

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the prospect of Bad Boys 4 after the success of Bad Boys For Life… Bad Boys For Life, a long awaited third entry in the franchise, came out earlier this year to not only the best reviews of the series, but a surprisingly strong opening weekend on its way to almost […]

A look back at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser… For a good few years, rumours of a Hellraiser reboot have been on the table. The whispers and near starts have persisted for a long time along with a number of other false starting reboots like Highlander and The Crow. Now it appears that HBO […]

The Nicolas Cage Castings Just Keep Getting Better

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Tom Jolliffe on some of the recent characters Nicolas Cage has been tasked with playing (including himself and now Joe Exotic)… It’s been a couple of months now. We’ve all seen Tiger King right? Good. Well, this only in America tale of exotic animals, cults, murder plots, murder cover ups (potentially) and everything in between […]

DNA: Anatomy of an Indiana Jones, Predator, Alien and Jurassic Park ripoff

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at DNA, William Mesa’s video special from 1996, a hodge podge of clear influences…. For every big screen box office smash, there is a low budget circle of copycats just around the corner. Success breeds imitation. For Snakes on a Plane you get Snakes on a Train. For E.T […]

Is Robert Pattinson’s Batman workout routine that important?

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Tom Jolliffe on the furore surrounding Robert Pattinson’s workout (or lack thereof) confession in lockdown… It would be fair to say that Robert Pattinson as Batman has been a contentious choice since it was first murmured as even possible. Now fully confirmed, and having already spent time on set, the decision is evidently final. In […]

Tenet: A lesson in how to do a trailer correctly

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Tom Jolliffe on the frustrating trends in modern trailers, and why Christopher Nolan does things the right way… Things are a little funny in the world of cinema right now. It’s quite difficult to get too excited about anything, or at least the prospect of a big ‘event’ movie for the big screen. All that […]

Joy Division in Cinema and TV

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40 years after the death of Ian Curtis, Tom Jolliffe looks at the impact of Joy Division in cinema and TV… There have been a few big anniversaries of late. 40 years since Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back was released. 40 years since The Shining came out too. On a more […]