We look at ten of the most influential action movies ever made… The action genre excites and entertains like no other and it’s fair to say that the lasting appeal shows that audiences have long held the desire for escapism. Whether it’s Western shootouts at high noon, kung fu battles in the streets of Hong […]
Movie Review – Operation Seawolf (2022)
Operation Seawolf, 2022. Directed by Steven Luke. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Grillo, Hiram A. Murray, Apostolos Gliarmis, Andrew Stecker and Edgar Damatian. SYNOPSIS: In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the Allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats for one last mission, to […]
Revisiting the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Were a generation of fans too harsh on the Prequel Trilogy? Tom Jolliffe revisits The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith to see whether they’re worthy of reappraisal, and how they hold up post-Disney Sequel Trilogy… Remember Spaced? The much loved and all too shortly lived sitcom from Edgar Wright, […]
Van Damme meets Tsui Hark: Double Team and Knock Off
On the 25th anniversary of Knock Off, we look back at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Tsui Hark double bill… Jean-Claude Van Damme was riding high in the mid 1990s. He was coming off the back of a string of his biggest hits. He had an eye for talent too, becoming a key figure in bringing John […]
Dust in the Eye: Ten Tear-Jerking Moments in Action Movies
Tom Jolliffe looks at ten tear-jerking moments from an eclectic mix of action movies (with major spoilers)… Action movies are exciting, sometimes empowering, often chaotic and move at a breakneck pace. The primary directive of an action film is to invest you enough into the characters’ quest that you care what happens, but usually only […]
Lock, Stock and The Essential Guy Ritchie Movies
On the 25th anniversary of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, we look at the essential Guy Ritchie films… In 1998, Guy Ritchie burst onto the British film scene with his dazzling debut hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Since then he’s revisited guns and gangsters, adapted a classic spy show, adapted an iconic […]
Indie Horror Filmmaking: The birth of The Baby in the Basket
As Flickering Myth steps into the world of indie filmmaking, Tom Jolliffe details how and why The Baby in the Basket was born… As a screenwriter working in the indie filmmaking world for five years, I made a conscious decision late last year to pull away from hired commissions (slightly) and shift my focus more […]
Indie Horror Filmmaking: Creating The Baby in The Basket – From Script to Green Light!
A look inside scripting The Baby in the Basket, Flickering Myth’s first foray into Film Production… The week so far has been up and down but perfectly encapsulating life as an indie screenwriter who in the midst of an insanely busy spring, has been co-handling a Kickstarter campaign that has thankfully seen us hit its […]
Exclusive Interview – Amber Doig-Thorne on Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey and The Baby in the Basket
Amber Doig-Thorne joins us to discuss her recent role in the monster hit Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and her role in Flickering Myth’s upcoming horror The Baby in the Basket… A woman of many talents, Amber Doig-Thorne is an up-and-coming actress, a presenter, a comedienne and an influencer among other things. Having starred […]
Cannon Films and the Search for Critical Acclaim
A look back at Cannon Films and their search for critical acclaim which led to some memorable successes and failures… When aficionados think back to the glory days of Cannon Films, most notably in the peak years under Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, they invariably cast their minds to unashamedly schlocky and low-budget genre fare […]
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