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Event Report – 2000 AD Prog 2000 signing at the Travelling Man, Manchester

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Last Wednesday – 28th September – marked a rather momentous day in British Comic Industry as 2000 AD celebrated a mammoth landmark with Prog 2000 – that’s correct 2000 issues of Earth’s mightiest comic! Not only was there a rather excellent celebratory comic released for this day [read Mark Allen’s review here], which saw the excellent […]

Exclusive Interview – Tate Taylor talks The Girl on The Train, casting Emily Blunt and flirtations with Marvel

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With the eagerly anticipated released of The Girl on the Train released later this week, Flickering Myth’s roving reporter Scott J. Davis sat down to chat with the film’s director Tate Taylor, who discussed the adaptation, the re-location of the story, casting and those Marvel rumours… The book has only been out for over a year, […]

Exclusive Interview: Asa Butterfield talks Tim Burton, Eva Green and superheroes

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In the second of our exclusive interviews with some of the cast of Tim Burton’s new film, Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sits down with Asa Butterfield to talk about the film, working with Tim Burton and all that Spider-Man talk… When did you first hear about the film? […]

Exclusive: Asa Butterfield talks Spider-Man, superheroes and the DC Extended Universe

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Before Tom Holland was announced as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man for Captain America: Civil War and the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, fellow Brit Asa Butterfield was frequently mentioned as one of the front-runners for the role, with certain rumour sites even going as far as to claim on several occasions that he’d been cast [see […]

Exclusive Interview: Ella Purnell talks Miss Peregrine, her love of all things Tim Burton and working with her friend Asa Butterfield

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With Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children out in UK cinemas this week, Flickering Myth’s roving reporter Scott J. Davis was able to sit down with some of the cast to chat about the film. In the first of two exclusive interviews, he chats to star Ella Purnell about the film, working with Tim Burton and […]

Interview: Director Daniel Ragussis speaks on the genesis of Imperium and the experiences of emerging as a feature length director

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Joshua Gill chats with Imperium director Daniel Ragussis… In the lead up to Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Imperium, an exciting thriller that looks at the true story of an FBI informant that infiltrates a neo-nazi terrorist cell, director Daniel Ragussis speaks to staff writer Joshua Gill about the degree to which he researched the white […]

Exclusive Interview: Ira Sachs talks Little Men, finding his young leads and whether he would ever direct a “bigger” film

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In an exclusive interview, Senior Staff Writer and resident roving reporter Scott J. Davis sat down to chat to acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs about his new film Little Men, a moving drama about a new pair of best friends whose bond is tested when their parents clash. Your recent films have focused on different age […]

Interview: Uncharted and Firefly composer Greg Edmonson on the art of the soundtrack

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Sean Wilson talks to the BAFTA-award-winning film, TV and video game composer about his celebrated soundtrack work… In today’s pop culture climate, no longer are composers limited to one genre or field of speciality. Increasingly our greatest musicians are diversifying across a host of different platforms, and one of the greatest is Greg Edmonson whose […]

Interview with Simon Barrett, screenwriter of Blair Witch

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Flickering Myth’s Mark Bartlett chats with screenwriter Simon Barrett about Blair Witch… Director Adam Wingard’s surprise sequel Blair Witch is terrifying and something of a rebirth for the found footage format. It’s a welcome surprise and an excellent continuation of the lore established in the original Blair Witch Project. In this interview, writer Simon Barrett […]

TIFF 2016 Interview – Lorcan Finnegan and cast on Without Name

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Ricky Church chats with Lorcan Finnegan and cast of Without Name… Earlier this week the Irish indie film Without Name premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Flickering Myth got to sit down with the cast and crew of this psychological horror. Without Name tells the story of Eric, a man going through a […]