Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

Why Henry Golding should be the next 007

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Anghus Houvouras with his pick for the next James Bond…Playing armchair casting director is hardly the sport of kings and for the most part it’s something I stay away from. Every so often an idea pops up in my cerebral cortex and hangs out long enough to warrant consideration. In 20 years of writing film […]

Ethan Hawke Is Kind of Right, Logan Is Over-Praised, But He Misses Something Important

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Samuel Brace on Ethan Hawke’s comments about Logan and superhero movies…Logan is a great superhero movie, on this, there can be no doubt. But to call Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine swansong a great movie in the general sense is quite clearly not the case. This was Ethan Hawke’s point when his now viral statement caused the […]

When Sun-Block Spoiled Greatness: Blade is 20 Years Old

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Blade, after it turns 20… I remember it well. I remember it like it was only 10 years ago in fact, but it’s not. It has been 20 years. A tired action genre. A few brief flashes of excitement here and there. Schwarzenegger and Stallone were tiring and in their […]

Is Daniel Craig’s Bond Doomed to Fizzle Out?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the aftermath of Danny Boyle leaving Bond 25 and whether Daniel Craig’s final film is destined to underwhelm…The news came like a bolt from the blue yesterday. Danny Boyle has left Bond 25 due to creative differences. We’re just over a year away from this being delivered to cinemas. A director […]

The era of big stars is over, so are we on the cusp of the era of directors?

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George Chrysostomou on whether we’re entering the era of the director…For many a year now, movies have been marketed and sold on the big name stars who appear in them. For a very long time, this method of selling a movie worked. There were periods of time that people would see Sylvester Stallone attached to […]

The Oscar for Most Baffling New Category goes to… The Oscars!

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the recent decision to introduce a new Academy Award category…The Oscars are always contentious. It’s the ‘big’ award ceremony. It’s the one. No one really pays much attention to the Golden Globes, or anything else. The Oscar is the one statue everyone in Hollywood strives for. So now, in their infinite […]

The Academy’s ‘Achievement in Popular Film’ is a demeaning category

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Ricky Church on the new Oscar category ‘Achievement in Popular Film…The Academy Awards is the film industry’s most prestigious event of the year, celebrating outstanding achievements in a wide array of behind the scenes filmmaking from direction, acting to sound design and more. That’s how the ceremony is presented to audiences at least and while […]

What on Earth (or in space) is going to happen in Star Wars: Episode IX?

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As Star Wars: Episode IX starts filming, Tom Beasley takes a look at what the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga has in store…It wasn’t that long ago really that Star Wars: The Last Jedi took the mostly fairly united fandom surrounding the galaxy far, far away and shook it up, creating a deep schism down […]