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Festival journey for Where the Road Runs Out continues

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As the festival journey for Where the Road Runs Out continues, Rudolf Buitendach, the film’s director-producer in an exclusive comment to Flickering Myth emphasised the struggle of the independent filmmaker. Looking to the film’s festival success to date and the continuation of the festival journey, Buitendach commented: “’Every-time we watch it at a new venue […]

Exclusive Interview – Dominic Dromgoole, director of Making Noise Quietly

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Paul Risker chats with Making Noise Quietly director Dominic Dromgoole… Making Noise Quietly is an adaptation of Robert Holman’s play of the same name, in which strangers meet in Kent in 1944, Redcar in 1982 and the Black Forest in 1996, preoccupied by war present or past: World War II, The Falklands and Iraq. Director […]

Exclusive Interview – Mr. Mercedes showrunner Jack Bender talks Season 2

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Paul Risker chats with Mr. Mercedes showrunner Jack Bender about season 2 of the Stephen King adaptation… Mr Mercedes, an adaptation of Stephen King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy, comprising Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch, enters its second season. Brady Hartsfield (Harry Treadaway) remains hospitalised in a vegetative state after a second attempt to […]

Exclusive Interview – Pacific Rim Uprising director Steven S. DeKnight

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Paul Risker chats with director Steven S. DeKnight… Director Steven S. DeKnight’s Pacific Rim Uprising sees the once promising, yet rebellious Jaeger pilot Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) having abandoned his training and family legacy for the criminal underworld. When the Kaiju return, it presents Jake the opportunity to live up to his father Stacker Pentecost’s […]

Exclusive Interview – Writer-director Andrew Fleming discusses Ideal Home

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Paul Risker chats with Ideal Home writer-director Andrew Fleming… Andrew Fleming’s comedy Ideal Home tells the story of Erasmus (Steve Coogan) and Paul (Paul Rudd), a gay couple who have to quickly adapt their party lifestyle to look after Erasmus’ estranged grandson unexpectedly turns up on their doorstep. The filmmakers previous work includes cult film […]

Exclusive Interview with McLaren director Roger Donaldson

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Paul Risker chats with McLaren director Roger Donaldson… “Every movie is different” says filmmaker Roger Donaldson. “There are always so many things to keep you interested and so I’m not bored yet.” The story of racing driver, constructor and engineer Bruce McLaren has become the primary focus of Donaldson. It is one that has seen […]

Movie Review – Jawbone (2017)

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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 […]

Movie Review – Lady Macbeth (2016)

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Lady Macbeth, 2016. Directed by William Oldroyd. Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, and Christopher Fairbank. SYNOPSIS: Lady Macbeth is an adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. It tells the plight of the young newlywed whose loveless marriage leads her into a forbidden and adulterous love […]

Exclusive interview with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd

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Paul Risker chats with Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd… From the theatre and opera stage, director William Oldroyd has emerged as a filmmaking talent, named BAFTA’S ‘Brit to watch’ in 2016. His theatre work comprises adaptations of the works of Sartre, Beckett and Shakespeare, while his opera credits include work in Portugal as well as […]