Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

Should studios just leave troubled productions alone?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether studios should leave troubled productions alone…There’s a terrible line uttered by Rose Tico in the terrible movie that was Star Wars: The Last Jedi. A goofy, cringe-inducing piece of writing that should make everyone shudder. In that awful final act where she stops Finn from sacrificing himself to save his friends in […]

Lars von Trier Is Deliberately Winding You Up. Don’t Let Him.

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Neil Calloway thinks we should all just ignore directors who provoke on purpose….Since Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built was screened at Cannes last week, prompting walkouts from assembled critics, the Danish Dogme director has received publicity on a scale not seen since, well, since the last time he was at Cannes and […]

Should you choose to accept them, here are the best Mission: Impossible moments

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Matt Rodgers on the best Mission: Impossible moments…The ability for the Mission: Impossible franchise to subvert the law of diminishing returns, in terms of both box-office and quality, as well as keeping the fuse lit under Tom Cruise’s dimming star power, is surely down to the stylistically diverse way in which the films are made.In […]

Arrested Development: Remixing Isn’t Fixing

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Eric Bay-Andersen on Arrested Development…Some shows (like The Simpsons) carry on well past their prime, some shows start off great but lose a little of their spark towards the end (like Friends and Frasier), but some shows have a short and sweet run, leaving behind a legacy of untarnished brilliance. Arrested Development used to be […]

The Most Disappointing: The ‘Genetically Engineered Killing Machine’ trope

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Anghus Houvouras on the ‘Genetically Engineered Killing Machine’ trope…Blockbusters are frequently rife with clichés and tropes, gingerly strung together to construct a flimsy narrative from which they can hang their set-pieces. No one ever said big budget crowd-pleasers had to be wholly original. If that was a requirement we might only get 2 to 3 […]

Friday Night Lights is Great, But Let’s Not Have a New Movie

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Neil Calloway isn’t convinced by plans for a new film about High School football…The news that there is going to be a new Friday Night Lights film should be greeted with trepidation. It’s not the big screen spin-off of the TV series that many hoped for (more on this later, but they’re wrong to want […]

A World Without Cinema: How Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War are paving the way to Box Office success in Saudi Arabia

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Pim Razenberg on the changes in Saudi Arabia’s cinematic landscape…What was the first movie you ever watched in theatres? Was it a family friendly animated film, or the action-packed blockbuster your father really wanted to see? For me, it was most probably Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1991. At the cuddleable […]

Why Avengers: Infinity War is Everything Star Wars: The Last Jedi Wanted to Be

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James Turner looks at the similarities and differences between the two biggest blockbusters of the last twelve months…This piece makes references to the plot of Avengers: Infinity War, but there are no substantial spoilers.For those who didn’t read my review of The Last Jedi, let’s just say I was less than impressed by it. If you […]

Questioning the Snap: How Thanos caused an extinction-level event and ruined yogurt

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Pim Razenberg on the unconsidered consequences of Thanos’ finger snap…Warning: If you have not seen Avengers: Infinity War and want to avoid spoilers, do not read the following article.Intelligent, calculated and truly righteous in his own beliefs, Thanos snapped his fingers at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, disintegrating half of all life across the […]