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Does Interesting Casting Happen Anymore?

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This week, Neil Calloway is not happy with the lack of imagination when it comes to casting… With the big news on Friday (and I’m not talking about Penguin Awareness Day), you may have missed the story about the potential casting for the forthcoming Green Lantern movie. If you did miss it, you won’t be […]

Fan Expo 2017: Star Wars Rebels panel with Dave Filoni, Vanessa Marshall and Taylor Gray

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Ricky Church reports from the Star Wars Rebels panel at Fan Expo 2017… Today at the Fan Expo convention in Toronto, Star Wars Rebels creator and executive producer Dave Filoni and stars Vanessa Marshall (Hera) and Taylor Gray (Ezra) held a panel to discuss the upcoming fourth and final season of the series. They shared […]

Is the Multiverse the ultimate solution to narrative issues?

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George Chrysostomou on the multiverse… The DC TV shows that can be found on The CW are unique for one very specific reason. Although it is rare for TV shows to crossover, there is an element to these superhero stories that is heavily relied upon to move the narrative forward, offering solutions to new characters, […]

East Loves West: The ever growing Chinese interest in Hollywood

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Tom Jolliffe on the ever-growing Chinese interest in Hollywood… It used to be that the success or failure of a Hollywood film rested on its domestic box office results. In fact success or failure was often established by the time the opening weekend results had come in, and even further you could say by the […]

The Costumes of Doctor Strange

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Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Strange, the Master of the Mystic Arts, in the latest movie from Marvel Studios. A disciple of mysticism and powerful magic, Strange has come to reject materialism, so it’s doubtful he’d ever claim that clothes maketh the man – but at least as far as moviemaking goes, costumes will play a […]

Interview: Simon Barrett talks Blair Witch backlash, the challenges of writing a sequel and more

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Luke Owen gets on the phone with writer Simon Barrett… Last year I spoke with Adam Wingard just a couple of months after his project The Woods had been revealed as a sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project and a few weeks before the film was released [read that interview here]. At the time […]

Breaking Down Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Anghus Houvouras on the Star Wars: Episode VIII title reveal and what it could mean for the movie… It’s funny how little it takes to get people excited these days. The anticipation for the eighth episode of the Star Wars is high. So much so that it was named Flickering Myth’s most anticipated film of 2017. […]

Flickering Myth’s most anticipated movies of 2017

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Flickering Myth get excited for the year ahead of us… After a fairly below-average year at the cinema last year, we here at Flickering Myth are feeling rather hopeful for 2017. There are some fantastic films lined up; including a load of comic book movies, the return of Christopher Nolan and King Kong, a new […]

Are the Academy Awards really biased against blockbusters?

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Angus Houvouras on whether the Academy Awards are really biased against blockbusters… You’ve gotta love James Cameron. If ever a director has earned our collective respect, it’s the guy that brought us Terminator, Aliens, T2, The Abyss, and True Lies. Then again he also brought us Dark Angel, Avatar, Titanic, and a ringing endorsement of […]