Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

Waco Episode 1 Review – ‘Visions and Omens’

by

Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Waco…I remember first learning about the Waco Siege during the Bundy Standoff in 2014. Many news outlets at the time were making comparisons between the two, leading me to look it up on Wikipedia. I don’t remember much about it, and I’ve refrained from revisiting that article to […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 9 Review – ‘Best Laid Plans’

by

Danny Hale reviews the ninth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5…From the beginning of ‘Best Laid Plans’ it’s clear that Kasius is starting to lose his hold over his captives as Mack, Yo-Yo and Flint have rallied the humans on the Lighthouse into rebellion and while they’re mostly expendable characters that we know […]

Movie Review – Flay (2017)

by

Flay, 2017.Directed by Eric Pham. Starring Ella Lamont, Dalton E. Gray, Johnny Walter, Violett Beane, A. Michael Baldwin, and Patricia Cane.SYNOPSIS:After the death of her mother, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother, and those around her from a malevolent faceless spirit.Possessed objects are no stranger to the horror genre and I thought I’d […]

Movie Review – Den of Thieves (2018)

by

Den of Thieves, 2018.Directed by Christian Gudegast. Starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dawn Olivieri, Brian Van Holt, Jordan Bridges, Eric Braeden, Maurice Compte, Sonya Balmores, Cooper Andrews, Meadow Williams, Kaiwi Lyman, Jay Dobyns, Nick Loeb, Mo McRae, and Jermaine Rivers.SYNOPSIS:As a series of heists escalate across […]

Book Review – Strange Weather by Joe Hill

by

Michelle Herbert reviews Strange Weather by Joe Hill…Strange Weather is a collection of short stories, which not surprisingly have a connection to meteorological conditions, whether that is a growing forest fire or rain that no longer falls as expected. These stories have weather in the background, yet these are very human stories full of loss […]

Movie Review – Basmati Blues (2017)

by

Basmati Blues, 2017.Directed by Dan Baron. Starring Brie Larson, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Saahil Sehgal, Scott Bakula, Tyne Daly, Lakshmi Manchu, and Donald Sutherland.SYNOPSIS:A brilliant scientist is plucked out of the company lab and sent to India to sell the genetically modified rice she created – which she doesn’t realize will destroy the farmers she thinks she’s […]

Movie Review – Attraction (2017)

by

Attraction, 2017.Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. Starring Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, and Oleg Menshikov.SYNOPSIS:After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.Russian cinema has been the source of some of the greatest science fiction films […]

Movie Review – The Cured (2017)

by

The Cured, 2017.Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughn-Lawlor, and Paula Malcolmson.SYNOPSIS:In a sub-genre that has swallowed up contemporary culture in a way that nobody saw coming when George A. Romero’s groundbreaking films captured the Vietnam or consumerist zeitgeist of their respective eras, David Freyne’s contribution to the zombie movie poses […]