With Warner Bros. constantly adding new projects and shuffling its existing DC slate around, it’s been difficult to keep track of the studio’s specific plans for the future of the DC Extended Universe.In the past few weeks, we’ve had an announcement on a Joker and Harley Quinn movie, rumours about the status of the planned […]
Armie Hammer cast alongside Felicity Jones in On the Basis of Sex
Armie Hammer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) has signed on to star opposite Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) in On the Basis of Sex, a biopic of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Hammer will play Marty Ginsburg, husband to Jones’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the film, which is being directed by Mimi […]
Second Opinion – God’s Own Country (2017)
God’s Own Country, 2017.Directed by Francis Lee. Starring Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart, and Gemma Jones.SYNOPSIS:Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) works long hours on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. But when handsome […]
Watch the first two minutes of Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Ahead of its US release later this month, the first two minutes of Studio Ponoc’s debut animated feature Mary and the Witch’s Flower has arrived online, and you can watch them right here…SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flowerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaZ55DB4v8Mary is a plain, young girl, stuck in a rural British village […]
New poster and trailer for Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower
GKIDS has released a new poster and trailer for Mary and the Witch’s Flower, the debut film from Studio Ponoc, which is directed by the Academy Award-nominated Hiromasa Yonebayashi, animator on Spirited Away and director of When Marnie Was There and The Secret World of Arrietty. Check them out here…Mary is a plain, young girl, […]
Exclusive: Doug Liman says fan affection for Edge of Tomorrow was what drew him to the sequel
Flickering Myth’s Amon Warmann caught up with director Doug Liman this past week to discuss the upcoming release of his new film American Made. During the interview, the discussion turned to Liman’s next project Live Die Repeat and Repeat, with the filmmaker revealing that he was initially drawn to the sequel due to the fan […]
2017 Has Been A Bad Year For Blockbusters, And That’s No Surprise
If Hollywood had stopped making bad films, they would have made more money…2017 probably isn’t the year to say that the HL Mencken line about nobody losing money underestimating the public isn’t true, but it certainly looks like it no longer holds for the film industry.Amidst the wailing and gnashing of teeth from studio executives […]
On Movie Piracy
Henry Bevan investigates movie piracy…“DOWNLOADING PIRATED FILMS IS STEALING” screams the infamous anti-piracy advert that was seemingly attached to every single DVD released in the mid-noughties. Showing various scenes of thievery accompanied with some grungy font, the advert sledgehammers its point into your brain. If you illegally stream or download media content, you are no […]
Netflix doesn’t consider Amazon as competition
Netflix doesn’t consider Amazon as a rival company, according to CCO Ted Sarandos.Netflix and Amazon are two of the biggest players in the TV and movie streaming space, both making great strides in recent years to develop their own original content.One could think that they were rivals in some sense, considering Netflix and Amazon Video […]
Movie Review – A Ghost Story (2017)
A Ghost Story, 2017.Directed by David Lowery. Starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara.SYNOPSIS:In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.On paper A Ghost Story shouldn’t work. A slow paced examination of grief […]
