Flickering Myth

Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games

Carnival Row Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Aisling’

by

Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Carnival Row… Bloody murder, family ructions and underground splinter cells push up the ante with intent as episode two lights a fire beneath Carnival Row. By intertwining mythology with the citizens of this Burge there is a melding of fact, fiction and historical breadth which underpins essential drama. […]

Movie Review – The Souvenir (2019)

by

The Souvenir, 2019. Directed by Joanna Hogg. Starring Honor Swinton-Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Jack McMullen and Richard Ayoade. SYNOPSIS: A young woman struggles to achieve her film school ambitions while in a destructive relationship with an older man. There’s always a lot of talk online – particularly in the world of morally questionable superhero […]

Movie Review – Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)

by

Memory: The Origins of Alien, 2019. Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring Tom Skerritt, Diane O’Bannon, Axelle Carolyn, Roger Corman, Veronica Cartwright, Ben Mankiewicz, and Alan Jones. SYNOPSIS: Documentary focusing on how Alien and, more specifically, its central antagonist came into being. Just when you think there is nothing more to be mined from the […]

Movie Review – Aniara (2018)

by

Aniara, 2018. Directed by Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja. Starring Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian, Bianca Cruzeiro, Anneli Martini, Emma Broomé, Jennie Silfverhjelm and Leon Jiber. SYNOPSIS: A luxury spaceship carrying human settlers to Mars is left drifting in space when an accident causes it to jettison its fuel supply. Earlier this year, the film critic […]

Movie Review – Killers Anonymous (2019)

by

Killers Anonymous, 2019. Directed by Martin Owen. Starring Rhyon Nicole Brown, MyAnna Buring, Michael Socha, Elizabeth Morris, Tommy Flanagan, Elliot James Langridge, Tim McInnerny, Sam Hazeldine, Gary Oldman, Jessica Alba and Suki Waterhouse. SYNOPSIS: A group of assassins gather for an impromptu meeting of their support group for killers, following an attempted hit on a […]

Movie Review – The Banana Splits Movie (2019)

by

The Banana Splits Movie. 2019. Directed by Danishka Esterhazy. Starring Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund, Maria Nash, Richard White, Sara Canning, Celina Martin, Kiroshan Naidoo, and Naledi Majola. SYNOPSIS: A boy named Harley and his family (brother Austin, mother Beth, and father Mitch) attends a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, […]

Movie Review – Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (2018)

by

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, 2018. Directed by Alexandre Astier and Louis Clichy. Starring Ken Kramer, C. Ernst Harth, John Innes, Michael Shepherd and Fleur Delahunty. SYNOPSIS: When the village druid decides it is time for him to choose a successor, Asterix and Obelix join him on his journey to find an heir, […]

Carnival Row Series Premiere Review – ‘Some Dark God Wakes’

by

Martin Carr reviews the series premiere of Carnival Row… With the quarrelling politicians, warring unionists and class wars raging this feels like two latter day Scorsese films melded with an Alan Moore benchmark and touches of Tolkien. Carnival Row evokes Victorian London, back street bar fights and unsavoury elements in the dark. There is world […]