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Interview – Clive Townsend talks about his ZX Spectrum classic Saboteur

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Clive Townsend created and released Saboteur – with software publishing house Durell Software – back in 1985.  Taking on the role of a clad in black Ninja, you had to steal a computer disk and make your way through numerous rooms, filled with guards, lasers and dogs to the helicopter waiting for you on the roof; […]

Exclusive Interview – Living director Oliver Hermanus

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Chris Connor chats with Living director Oliver Hermanus… To coincide with its wide release this week, we sat down with Living director Oliver Hermanus to discuss the film playing at the festival, working with the acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and the challenges and opportunities presented by adapting Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru and reinterpreting it for a […]

Exclusive – Stan Bush talks about Michael Bay not using “The Touch” in his Transformers movies

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To mark the film’s 30th anniversary, we got in touch with rock singer Stan Bush to talk about The Transformers: The Movie‘s iconic theme song “The Touch”, and why it wasn’t used in the Michael Bay live-action movies. Bush had re-recorded “The Touch”, and it looks like it very nearly made it into the final […]

Interview: Everybody Wants Some!! star Tyler Hoechlin talks Richard Linklater, working with Tom Hanks and Fifty Shades sequels

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This Friday sees the long-awaited release of Everybody Wants Some!! [read our ★★★★★ review here] the new film from acclaimed writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before trilogy). Promoted as the “spiritual sequel” to Linklater’s 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, the new film charts the lives of a group of college baseball players navigate their way through […]

Exclusive trailer for found footage horror The Death of April

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Thanks to Terror Films, we’ve got our hands on an exclusive trailer for The Death of April, a new found footage horror from director Ruben Rodriguez and starring Katarina Hughes, Adam Lowder, and RayMartell Moore. Check out the trailer below ahead of the film’s digital release this December… Meagan Mullen, freshly moved into her East […]

Exclusive Interview: Legendary director Garry Marshall on Mother’s Day, holiday films and memories of Robin Williams

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With his new film Mother’s Day set for release in the UK this Friday (June 10th), Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sat down (well, on the phone at least) to chat with legendary director Garry Marshall (Overboard, Pretty Woman) to discuss his latest effort, some of his most famous projects, and working with the late Robin Williams. […]

Exclusive: The Paloni Show! producers on working with Gilbert Gottfried two weeks before his passing

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Adult Swim’s The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! not only treats viewers to wide array of unsettlingly funny and boldly animated horror shorts from a wide variety of up-and-coming animators — it also features one of the final performances from comedy giant Gilbert Gottfried. At New York Comic Con, Flickering Myth asked The Paloni Show! executive […]

Exclusive Interview – Troy Baker on playing Batman in Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

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Batman, Superman and various members of the Justice League are often the headliners in Warner Bros. Animation’s DC films, but their most recent film is turned not only on the sidekicks, but Batman and Superman’s sons Jonathan Kent and Damien Wayne. Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons follows Jon and Damian as they are the only […]

Exclusive Interview – Deborah Lynn Scott, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Avatar: The Way of Water costume designer

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Tai Freligh chats with costume designer Deborah Lynn Scott… The multi-award-winning Deborah Lynn Scott is a celebrated Hollywood veteran with a distinguished film career who spearheaded the costume design for the 1980s classic E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.  She is renowned for her infamous work on James Cameron’s Titanic which won her the Academy Award for […]