Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

The Pseudo-Intellectualism of Gaspar Noé’s Climax

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The following is partly a review of Climax and partly an exploration of what makes a film a good piece of cinema… Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Giselle Palmer. SYNOPSIS: A young dance troupe rehearse for an upcoming American tour in a dingy school assembly […]

Comic Book Review – Fearscape #1

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Fearscape #1… There are unreliable narrators and there’s Henry Henry. The name of Fearscape’s self-professed tragic hero isn’t a typo but it could be a lie, and that’s what makes writer, Ryan O’Sullivan, and illustrator, Andrea Mutti’s, new series so beguiling. Form matters. In fact, the opening page is all about how […]

Movie Review – Final Score (2018)

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Final Score, 2018. Directed by Scott Mann. Starring Dave Bautista, Lara Peake, Ray Stevenson, Amit Shah, Alexandra Dinu and Pierce Brosnan. SYNOPSIS: An army veteran must defend 35,000 people whose lives are at risk when terrorists take over West Ham football ground Upton Park on the hunt for a former revolutionary leader, who is hiding […]

Arrow Video FrightFest Review – Perfect Skin (2018)

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Perfect Skin, 2018. Directed by Kevin Chicken. Starring Richard Brake, Jo Woodcock, Natalia Kostrzewa, and Tom Ashley. SYNOPSIS: A young Polish girl Katia (Natalia Kostrzewa) meets American tattoo artist Bob Reid (Richard Brake) while traveling in London. While Katia is enamored by his mysterious aura and insane body modifications, Bob hides some dark and twisted secrets. […]

Second Opinion – Yardie (2018)

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Yardie, 2018. Directed by Idris Elba Starring Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Sheldon Shepherd, Calvin Demba, Stephen Graham, Everaldo Creary SYNOPSIS: From 70’s Kingston to 80’s Hackney, Yardie chronicles the life and strife of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), whose path is laid out before him at a young age, and for whom tragedy dictates […]

Movie Review – Let the Corpses Tan (2018)

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Let The Corpses Tan, 2018. Directed by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani. Starring Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbé, Marine Sainsily, Hervé Sogne, and Pierre Nisse. SYNOPSIS: A gang of thieves with over 250kg of gold try to hide out in a French island retreat. However, there are all sorts of complications; a love triangle with the writer who […]

Video Game Review – Strange Brigade

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Scott Watson reviews Strange Brigade… Ah, Strange Brigade, I’ve been waiting for you to arrive for what seems like an eternity!  Now you’re here, you’re pretty much everything I hoped and dreamed you would become having played you at EGX last September.  Wonderfully over the top storyline, gloriously gorgeous to look at, some of the […]

Arrow Video FrightFest Review – Climax (2018)

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Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude Gajan Maull, Giselle Palmer, and Taylor Kastle. SYNOPSIS: When a contemporary dance troupe have wrapped rehearsal for their 90s infused choreographed set-piece, they decide to throw a party to celebrate. What they don’t know is that someone has spiked the […]

Movie Review – Apocalypse Rising (2018)

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Apocalypse Rising, 2018 Directed by Richard Lowry Starring Shane Samples, Hunter Parker, Johanna Rae, Dennis Marin, Justin LeBrun. SYNOPSIS: Mia is an extrasensory teenage girl living on the planet Rathe, a world besieged by the undead. After a violent last stand, Mia and her warrior friends escape their world in a spacecraft. From just the opening credits […]