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The Oscars don’t matter and we all need to stop caring

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Luke Owen on last night’s Oscars…If Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, then Awards Season is the most loathsome as a film fan. It’s the time of year that a group of out-of-touch Hollywood professionals all gather round to lay their hand down on what they think was the best film released in […]

Predicting the 88th Academy Awards

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This Sunday all of the stars will be out to celebrate the greatest achievements in cinema over 2015. Is it Leo’s year? Will there be any upsets? If John Travolta is asked to speak, will he successfully be able to pronounce everything right? What will win the most prestigious prize of Best Picture? And most […]

10 Golden Globe Best Musical or Comedy nominations that aren’t musicals or comedies

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Scott J. Davis looks at the always dubious Best Musical or Comedy from the Golden Globes…Last night, Hollywood’s best and brightest gathered for the Golden Globes, the main precursor before the Academy Awards next month. The strangest award of the night went to ridley Scott’s The Martian, which bizarrely walked away with the award for […]

The Oscar ‘Race’: Hollywood’s ongoing diversity drama

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Anghus Houvouras on Hollywood’s ongoing diversity drama…I’m white. Take a minute, let that settle in. I know it’s shocking. I’m like the Rick Astley of film columnists because you probably first thought I was black and like Rick Astley you’re always a little bummed when you click on a link and it turns out to […]

Flickering Myth’s Most Anticipated 2016 Movies

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Flickering Myth looks ahead to 2016…It’s the future! And with the New Year officially upon us (we’re five days into it after all), we sat down to vote for our most anticipated movies of 2016, and below are the results. Each writer had five votes, which were then collated into scores and tallied to create […]

The new Ghostbusters film will disappoint, and it’s all your fault

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This week, Neil Calloway argues that toying with classics only leads to disappointment…This week the much-anticipated first trailer for the much-anticipated Ghostbusters remake debuted, to a lukewarm reaction (from the Flickering Myth team here at least).Now, you can’t judge films on trailers, and this might come back to haunt me when the film is released […]

Star Wars: The 10 Best Quotes

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Ricky Church with the 10 best quotes from the Star Wars saga… Anyone whose anyone will recognize lines like “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope’, “No, I am your father” or “May the Force be with you”. The Star Wars saga is chalk full of memorable lines that can be applicable for any […]

Was Pixels really that bad?

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Luke Owen looks at Adam Sandler’s latest box office bomb… “It’s the cinematic equivalent of receiving a supermarket brand deodorant gift set on Christmas morning: you don’t want it, you’ll never use it, and frankly, it stinks.” – Chris Blohm, Little White Lies “Some movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, […]