Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant opens in the UK this Friday, and in the build up to the release Flickering Myth Thomas Harris was fortunate enough to speak to some of the cast about their roles in the hotly-anticipated sci-fi horror. Yesterday we brought you interviews with Katherine Waterston (Daniels), Danny McBride (Tennessee) and Billy Crudup […]
Movie Review – Jawbone (2017)
Jawbone, 2017. Directed by Thomas Napper. Starring Johnny Harris, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: Boxer Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris) has hit rock bottom. A former youth boxing champion he agrees to an unlicensed fight up north, much to the disapproval of former friends Bill (Ray Winstone) and Eddie (Michael Smiley). When he begins […]
Bruce Lee-inspired Warrior gets straight-to-series order from Cinemax
Last year it was announced that Justin Lin (Star Trek Beyond) and Jonathan Tropper (Banshee) were teaming up to develop Warrior, a TV project based on original material written by martial arts legend Bruce Lee, and now comes word that the project has received a straight-to-series order. Deadline reports that Warrior is described as “a […]
Authorised Bruce Lee biopic Little Dragon finds a director
Bruce Lee Entertainment has found a director for its authorised biopic of the iconic martial artist, with Variety reporting that Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) is set to helm Little Dragon. The site reports that the project is described as “a contemporary dramatization of the 1950s Hong Kong social and political forces that shaped Bruce Lee into […]
Check out the outstanding Chicago Critics Film Festival lineup and its guest appearances
It goes without saying that Flickering Myth is primarily a UK based multimedia website, but Chicago is also quickly becoming our second home so to speak. As a critic writing for this site coming up on three years now, it is truly an honor to be a part of the Chicago Critics Film Festival for […]
“Battle Royale meets Get Out” as Fox 2000 adapts Y.A. novel S.T.A.G.S.
THR is reporting that Fox 2000 and Chernin Entertainment have teamed up to adapt M.A. Bennett’s debut novel S.T.A.G.S., which is being described as “Battle Royale meets Get Out“. The novel, “is set at exclusive St. Aidan the Great’s School (S.T.A.G.S.) in England and follows a first-year boarding school student named Greer, who is invited for […]
Zach McGowan’s casting in Ni‘ihau leads to whitewashing criticism
Zach McGowan (Black Sails, The 100) has been cast in the lead role in the World War II drama Ni‘ihau, which marks the feature directorial debut of Gabriel Robertson. Deadline reports that the film will tell the true story of Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island […]
Movie Review – Chuck (2017)
Chuck, 2017. Directed by Phillipe Falardeau. Starring Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Jim Gaffigan, Morgan Spector, Pooch Hall, Zina Wilde, Sadie Sink, and Naomi Watts. SYNOPSIS: A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner. Are strong acting and unrecognizable familiar faces enough to push a film over the hump from bad […]
Dave Bautista thinks Marvel could regain full rights to Spider-Man
It came as quite the surprise when it was first announced that Marvel and Sony had reached a deal to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Captain America: Civil War, and now we’re just a couple of months away before the release of the new web-slinger’s first solo outing in Spider-Man: Homecoming. In […]
Movie Review – Mindhorn (2016)
Mindhorn, 2016. Directed by Sean Foley. Starring Julian Barrett, Essie Davis, Russell Tovey, Andrea Riseborough, Jessica Barden, Harriet Walter, Kenneth Branagh, and Steve Coogan. SYNOPSIS: A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series “Mindhorn” must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only […]
