According to THR, Richie Mehta (Siddharth, Amal) has signed on to direct Jay Baruchel (Goon: Last of the Enforcers) in Baseballissimo, an indie drama about a minor-league pitcher on an Italian baseball team. The film has been written by Baruchel and his wiring partner Jesse Chabot (Random Acts of Violence) and originally had Jacob Tierney […]
Exclusive Interview: Director John Madden on Miss Sloane
Freda Cooper chats with Miss Sloane director John Madden… Elizabeth Sloane lives and breathes politics. Miss Sloane the film seems to attract them like a magnet. It premiered in America just after the Presidential Election and arrives in the UK this week in the middle of our own General Election campaign. The film’s director, John Madden, spoke […]
Movie Review – The Levelling (2016)
The Levelling, 2016. Directed by Hope Dickson Leach. Starring Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, and Joe Blakemore. SYNOPSIS: Trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns home to the family farm in Somerset following the death of her brother. She finds the farm in chaos and her father a shadow of his former self. Their relationship has […]
Edward James Olmos and Ryan Guzman to star in 9/11 drama Windows on the World
Edward James Olmos and Ryan Guzman are set to star as a father and son in the 9/11 drama Windows on the World, according to Variety. The film will be directed by Olmos’ own son, Michael D. Olmos, from a script by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson. The film will see Guzman star as a […]
Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane join Reed Morano-directed music drama
According to Deadline, Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane have signed on to star in an untitled drama for director Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale, Meadowland), which was previously known as First Chair and has been scripted by Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right). The film will follow “a regimented, self-obsessed virtuoso violinist (Bridges) who […]
The Crow reboot is eyeing an R-rating
The long planned reboot of The Crow is looking to garner an R-rating, according its executive producer. While there have been plenty of false starts for the project, Rings director F. Javier Gutierrez is still attached to the movie, albeit as executive producer, having vacated the director’s chair back in 2014. The reboot of the […]
Movie Review – Unlocked (2017)
Unlocked, 2017. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, Michael Douglas and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: Former CIA interrogator Alice (Noomi Rapace) is working undercover in a London community centre. She’s reluctant to go back to her old job because of her failure to “unlock” a suspect, which resulted in terrorist attack which […]
Exclusive Interview: Alien: Covenant star Katherine Waterston
In the build up to the release of Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, Flickering Myth’s Thomas Harris has been chatting to the cast of the sci-fi horror. Earlier today we brought you an exclusive interview with Danny McBride and Billy Crudup, and now here’s Thomas chatting to Katherine Waterston about her role as Daniels and following […]
Johnny Depp to headline Richard Says Goodbye
Johnny Depp has signed on for the lead in Richard Says Goodbye, a comedy-drama from writer-director Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye), Deadline has revealed. The film will see Depp as Richard, “a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and then decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live […]
Blu-ray Review – Phenomena: Limited Edition (1985)
Phenomena, 1985. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Patrick Bauchau, Fiore Argento, Federica Mastroianni, and Michele Soavi. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl with telepathic abilities moves to a Swiss boarding school and uses her gift to communicate with insects in order to solve a spate of murders. If something is worth […]
