The 73rd Writers Guild of America Awards took place on Sunday night and the results have gone some way to cementing Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Promising Young Woman as the screenplay favourites as far as the Academy Awards are concerned. In a virtual ceremony hosted by Kal Penn, Amazon Studios’ Borat took the adapted screenplay […]
It Chapter Two star James Ransone reuniting with director Scott Derrickson on Blumhouse’s The Black Phone
The upcoming Blumhouse and Universal project The Black Phone, an adaptation of the horror short story by Joe Hill from director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange), has added another member to its cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, IT Chapter Two star James Ransone will be reuniting with Derrickson for the upcoming horror film after appearing […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The End of Us
The End of Us, 2021. Directed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter. Starring Ben Coleman, Ali Vingiano, Derrick DeBlasis, Gadiel Del Orbe, Kate Peterman, Colin Weatherby, Caroline Kwan, Will Neff, Jesse Benjamin, and Claudia Restrepo. SYNOPSIS: After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they’ll […]
Movie Review – The Eight Hundred (2020)
The Eight Hundred, 2020. Directed by Guan Hu. Starring Huang Zhizhong, Zhang Junyi, Du Chun, Oho Ou and Tang Yixin. SYNOPSIS: In 1937, a few hundred Chinese soldiers are tasked with defending a Shanghai warehouse from invading Japanese forces. There were many strange and unusual things about 2020 but, for movie fans, one of the […]
The Greatest Dragon Movies of All Time
Marvelous Videos with a selection of dragon movie gems for fantasy lovers… Dragons are such enchanting, mesmerizing beasts of legends that it’s no surprise they have been embedded with mythological folklore worldwide. Whether you live in the East or the West, there is a good chance your pop culture has been touched by these lizard-like […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Through the Plexi-Glass: The Last Days of the San Jose
Through the Plexi-Glass: The Last Days of the San Jose, 2021. Directed by Liz Lambert. SYNOPSIS: Tells the story of a real estate deal’s unexpected detour – one that sparked the gentrification of Austin’s hippest neighborhood – and reveals layers of knotty, unanswerable questions, all more relevant than ever today. Can a documentary still be […]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel will see the return of Sally Hardesty
Last week producer Fede Alvarez revealed that his upcoming reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre takes a leaf out of Halloween’s book by serving as a decades-later direct sequel to the first movie featuring an “old man Leatherface”, and now Bloody Disgusting has revealed that the film has also brought back the franchise’s original final […]
Warner Bros. and DC Films developing Hourman movie
Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. and DC Films are teaming with Chernin Entertainment for an adaptation of the DC Comics series Hourman. Created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily and making his first appearance in Adventure Comics #48 in 1940, the original Hourman was Rex Tyler, a chemist who develops a ‘Miraclo’ pill which […]
Exclusive Interview – Producer Jonathan Sothcott talks Nemesis, career beginnings, favourite films and more
British producer Jonathan Sothcott stops by Flickering Myth to chat about his latest film Nemesis and more… For well over a decade, Jonathan Sothcott has been at the forefront of the British intendant film scene. A number of successful films, such as Dead Cert, Stalker and Devil’s Playground would be further cemented with a couple […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Luchadoras
Luchadoras, 2021. Directed by Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim. SYNOPSIS: The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women – who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico. While the overwhelming […]
