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Spoiler Alert! Are you a Spoiler Nazi?

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Anghus Houvouras on spoiler nazis… Ironic Sub-Headline: This post contains spoilers. Spoiler Nazi – noun 1. A demanding person or persons who employ fascist tactics via social media in an attempt to quiet potential spoilers for movies or television shows they have yet to see. 2. Spoiled, entitled assholes Spoilers. It’s almost impossible for film […]

Interview: The Sublet director John Ainslie

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Ricky Church chats with The Sublet director John Ainslie… The Sublet director John Ainslie was able to speak to Flickering Myth about his debut feature film. We spoke about the themes of The Sublet, the writing and filming process, working with the stars and his main influences from the horror genre. You can read my […]

Star Wars Memorable Moments – R2-D2 and C-3PO: BFFs

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments. Next up is Jessie Robertson on R2-D2 and C-3PO… Like most kids, Star Wars has always been apart of my youth, whether pretending to be fighting the Empire on Endor with my […]

Interview: The Sublet star Tianna Nori

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Ricky Church chats with The Sublet star Tianna Nori… Canadian actress Tianna Nori stars as Joanna, a new mother who moves into a sublet apartment with her fiancé, in The Sublet. As she stays at home taking care of their son, Joanna discovers a dark history within the apartment and slowly realizes it may be […]

Memorable Star Wars Moments – Luke meets Yoda

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments. Next up is Tom Jolliffe with Luke meets Yoda from Empire Strikes Back… Right off the bat I have to make something clear. If you don’t like the original Star Wars trilogy, […]

Memorable Star Wars Moments – Mos Eisley Cantina

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments. Next up is Matt Spencer-Skeen with the Mos Eisley scene from A New Hope… I would like to point out that the scene before we meet Han Solo and Chewbacca was never […]

Memorable Star Wars Moments – The Rancor Pit

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Flickering Myth’s writing team are counting down to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by discussing their most memorable Star Wars moments. Next up is The Week in Star Wars’s Luke Owen with Luke Skywalker in the Rancor pit from Return of the Jedi… Return of the Jedi gets a lot of stick for having teddy […]

The Rise of IMAX and the Return of 70mm Films

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This week Neil Calloway looks at how different film formats may rescue the cinema-going experience… This week brought the news that Avengers: Infinity War will be shot entirely in IMAX, as well as the 70mm release of Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight in the US. These two events seem totally unrelated, but they are both actually […]

2015 Awards Race Update: Carol named Best Picture by New York Film Critics Circle

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Last night I jotted down some thoughts on the National Board of Review unexpectedly giving audience and critical darling Mad Max: Fury Road the top honor (alongside a look at the other categories and their respective winners), and now we have the New York Film Critics Circle getting in on the action. Following in line […]

Mad Max: Fury Road named 2015’s Best Film by National Board of Review

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If you hadn’t noticed, we are venturing into yet another Oscar season, as evident by the National Board of Review having handed out some awards. Some of the winners are no-brainers, but there are also a fair share of surprises in the mix. Best Film: Mad Max: Fury Road Best Director: Ridley Scott – The […]