A Ghost Story, 2017. Directed by David Lowery. Starring Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, and Will Oldham. SYNOPSIS: After his sudden death in a car crash, a man returns to his home as a white sheeted ghost in an effort to re-connect with his grieving wife. An examination of love, loss and legacy. It’s not often […]
Movie Review – England Is Mine (2017)
England Is Mine, 2017. Directed by Mark Gill. Starring Jack Lowden, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jodie Comer and Laurie Kynaston. SYNOPSIS: The years in the life of one Steven Patrick Morrissey – his writings, the women in his life, his mental health issues – until the moment Johnny Marr turned up. And The Smiths were born. […]
Second Opinion – Atomic Blonde (2017)
Atomic Blonde, 2017. Directed by David Leitch. Starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan, Toby Jones, and Sofia Boutella. SYNOPSIS: In the run up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, top MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is sent on a solo mission to the city. She’s charged with investigating the death […]
Movie Review – Cardboard Gangsters (2017)
Cardboard Gangsters, 2017. Directed by Mark O’Connor. Starring John Connors, Jimmy Smallhorne, Kierston Wareing, Fionn Walton, and Fiona Twamley Hewitt. SYNOPSIS: Four childhood friends have grown up in the Darndale part of Dublin and are now determined to take control of the drug trade from the local crime lord. It means money, power, women and […]
Exclusive Interview – Screenwriter Gaby Chiappe on Their Finest
Set during the days after The Blitz during World War II, Their Finest follows the writers and film makers working for The Ministry Of Information, with one aim in mind – to raise public morale. The film’s screenwriter, Gaby Chiappe, talked to Flickering Myth’s Freda Cooper about making the move from writing for TV to […]
61st London Film Festival Review – Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Call Me By Your Name, 2017. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg and Esther Garrel. SYNOPSIS: An American professor and his family are spending the summer at their Italian villa. His teenage son is captivated by the graduate student who arrives to work for his father. It’s a fascination that […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Good Time (2017)
Good Time, 2017. Directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. Starring Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Taliah Webster, Buddy Duress and Barkhad Abdie. SYNOPSIS: Brothers Connie and Nik pull off a bank heist which, while it appears to go smoothly, ends up with the vulnerable Nik being caught and sent to Rikers. While […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Wonderstruck (2017)
Wonderstruck, 2017. Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Julianne Moore, Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Michelle Williams, and Jaden Michael. SYNOPSIS: Two parallel stories. In the 1970s, young Ben is bereft after the death of his mother. A discovery among her possessions leads him to go in search of his father in New York. Back in the […]
Movie Review – Ghost Stories (2017)
Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson. Starring Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Andy Nyman. SYNOPSIS: Professor Philip Goodman (Andy Nyman) is a sceptic, making TV documentaries on clairvoyants and mystics, exposing them as frauds. So he definitely doesn’t believe in ghosts. He’s contacted by a predecessor, another sceptic, who […]
Exclusive Interview – Brian Selznick on writing Wonderstruck
He may have a surname that’s gone down in movie history, but Brian Selznick describes himself as a “book maker”. He didn’t just write the books that inspired Martin Scorsese’s Hugo and now Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, he literally created them. They are works of art in their own right. Which makes adapting them for the […]
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