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 […]
An American Werewolf in London Revisited
Released on this day in 1981, John Landis’ iconic and groundbreaking An American Werewolf in London is no less impressive in the modern era… When you think of iconic horror there may be a number of images which spring to mind. It might be Leatherface doing his tribal chainsaw dance at the end of The […]
An Action Classic That Never Happened: William Friedkin directs Stallone and Rothrock in The Executioner
Tom Jolliffe dives back to a potential action classic that never got rolling. Sylvester Stallone as directed by William Friedkin, with Cynthia Rothrock also attached at one point… Let’s talks action. Let’s throw the name of an icon into the mix…Sylvester Stallone. The man who gave the world Rambo and Rocky. At a time during […]
William Friedkin: The Cinematic Sorcerer
We look at the stellar career of the late William Friedkin and in particular his underappreciated masterpiece, Sorcerer… William Friedkin has sadly passed away but left behind a resume filled with masterful cinema including several films which redefined genres. When it comes to cinema, there are some filmmakers who have never quite had the level […]
Cannon Films and the Masters of the Universe
Tom Jolliffe looks back at one of Cannon Films’ most iconic movies, Masters of the Universe… 36 years ago, Cannon Films unleashed upon the world a movie adaptation of a long-running kids cartoon and toy line with the release of Masters of the Universe. In the modern era, such a weighty IP and pop culture […]
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