Liam Hoofe gives us his predictions for WWE Crown Jewel 2019… This Thursday, the WWE heads over to Saudi Arabia for their second-ever Crown Jewel event. The company’s shows in Saudi Arabia have been surrounded by controversy and while the WWE insists that the shows are as big as WrestleMania, most fans see them as […]
Top 5 Underrated Stephen King Movie Adaptations
Hatitha Fernando with his top five underrated Stephen King movie adaptations… As Halloween comes-a-creeping nearer, what better way is there, than to celebrate it with the master of Horror himself; Stephen King. Gone are the days of low-budget B movies and sub-par adaptations. Whatever label you wish to slap on it- resurgence, revival or renaissance- […]
The Back Alley Scorsese: Abel Ferrara
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the best work of Abel Ferrara… What with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola being so prominent in the press of late, it brought to mind another director who rose into prominence in the wake of the aforementioned legends. Growing up in New York he was learning his trade […]
Extreme Cinema – Irreversible
Irreversible, 2002. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel. Irreversible (2002) features strong language, sex, violence and sexual violence in its tale of a woman raped in a subway and whose boyfriend and ex-lover seek a bloody revenge on her attacker. When shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the graphic […]
When Mickey Rourke Almost Ruled Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the early career of Mickey Rourke… When you think back through cinema you can easily think of an array of icons. Brando, Stewart, De Niro, Pacino, Sandler (okay…maybe not)… I could go on. The role of Acting Deity includes being a point of comparison. When De Niro first broke through […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer
The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker… On Monday evening, Disney and Lucasfilm unleashed the final trailer for the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga, giving fans our best look yet at J.J. Abrams’ series-closing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. With the […]
Should Marvel movies be considered serious cinema?
Anghus Houvouras on Marvel movies and whether they should be considered serious cinema… I have many fond memories of sitting at the kids table. You know, that second table at family functions where all the kids under a certain age were relegated to so that the adults wouldn’t have to deal with the loud nonsense […]
It’s Time to Give the Horror Genre More Respect
As Halloween approaches, Tom Jolliffe looks at the Horror genre, and why it needs more respect… As a movie lover with a wide ranging taste in films I’ve long been fairly open to an array of genres. It was recently though, and perhaps in part this stems from writing a few horror features of late, […]
Let’s Get Weird! Cinematic Oddities
Tom Jolliffe looks at the weird wonders of cinema… There are pretty standard films when it comes to cinema. It could be straight horror (masked killer stalks teens) or Die Hard formula (terrorists take over something, everyman hero stops them). Sometimes a film lowdown tells you everything you need to know about what you’re about […]
The Martin Scorsese/Marvel Debate
Tom Jolliffe on the Martin Scorsese and Marvel debate… One of cinemas greatest living directors, with around 50 years of crafting artistry behind him caused a storm recently with his comments dismissing Marvel films as ‘not cinema’ and ‘theme parks.’ Quite a few fired back (with plenty of politeness it should be said) who have […]