Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

Interview – Beauty and the Beast composer Alan Menken

by

Amon Warmann chats with Beauty and the Beast composer Alan Menken… There are few people more key to Disney’s animated success in the late 80’s and early 90’s than Alan Menken. The legendary composer – who has won a record 8 Oscars for his scores – returned for Beauty and the Beast’s live action adaptation […]

Exclusive Interview: Matty Cardarople talks A Series of Unfortunate Events

by

Tai Freligh chats with A Series of Unfortunate Events star Matty Cardarople… A laid-back, quirky comedic actor, East Coast-born Matty Cardarople grew up entertaining friends and family in Exeter, New Hampshire. After settling in Los Angeles, he studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse and has been studying with Lesly Kahn & Co. for several years. Discovered […]

Why The Oscars Are The Most Important Event Of The Year

by

Neil Calloway claims that the Academy Awards are more important than you might think… Tonight is the 89th Academy Awards, the industry prize giving ceremony that everyone knows as the Oscars (for obscure reasons – nobody is quite sure why they’re called that, with competing origin stories for the nickname). I would argue it’s the […]

Interview: How Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan turned their nightmares into A Cure For Wellness

by

Dan Jolin chats with Gore Verbinski and Dane DeHaan about A Cure for Wellness… During the summer of 2015, while shooting A Cure for Wellness in Germany, Dane DeHaan went through what he describes as “my month of torture”. In the space of a few weeks, the then-29-year-old star of Chronicle and The Amazing Spider-Man […]

Hacksaw Ridge and our attitude towards violence

by

Henry Bevan on Hacksaw Ridge and our attitude towards violence… A ultra-violent pacifist movie. That’s the oxymoron greeting you when you watch Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson’s film about Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector involved in the Battle of Okinawa. The film is open to multiple readings. Some are obvious, with Doss’s comparison with […]

How to fix the X-Men Cinematic Universe

by

Anghus Houvouras on how Fox can fix the X-Men: Cinematic Universe… Fox has been cultivating the X-Men cinematic universe for nearly two decades. It’s been that long since fans were first treated to Marvel’s most magnanimous mutants on the big screen. The first X-Men movie wasn’t perfect, but it was a solid first entry into […]

Mel Gibson Directing Suicide Squad 2? So Crazy It Might Just Work

by

Anghus Houvouras on the possibility of Mel Gibson directing Suicide Squad 2… Recently I wrote a column about the inherent struggles that come with separating the art from the artist. Most of the time this isn’t a problem as even the most educated film fans probably don’t know the intimate personal details of the writers, […]

Oscars: What Should Have Won – Good Night, and Good Luck. for Best Picture over Crash

by

Graeme Robertson on why Good Night, and Good Luck. should have won Best Picture at the 78th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 2005 are probably among the most controversial and divisive on record. For it was Paul Haggis’s race-based ensemble drama Crash that received the Best Picture trophy, beating the favourite to win […]

The Top 5 Sporting Documentaries

by

Everybody loves a good documentary. But not everybody loves sport. However, a really good sport documentary will bridge this gap perfectly and before you know it you’ll feel like the biggest fan of [insert sport] there is and that you want to know every tiny detail of it. One of those is BEST (George Best […]