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The Nicolas Cage Castings Just Keep Getting Better

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Tom Jolliffe on some of the recent characters Nicolas Cage has been tasked with playing (including himself and now Joe Exotic)… It’s been a couple of months now. We’ve all seen Tiger King right? Good. Well, this only in America tale of exotic animals, cults, murder plots, murder cover ups (potentially) and everything in between […]

Exclusive Interview – Action legend Mark Dacascos on Brotherhood of the Wolf, John Wick: Chapter 3 and his upcoming projects

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In the second part of our interview, action legend Mark Dacascos talks to Flickering Myth about his career to date… Brotherhood of the Wolf was a big hit and brought you back with Christophe Gans. How was your experience on the film? I was in France for 6 months. Some prep before and then the […]

Exclusive Interview – Action legend Mark Dacascos discusses Crying Freeman, Drive, The Island of Dr Moreau and more

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Tom Jolliffe chats with action legend Mark Dacascos about his illustrious career… Among action aficionados, Mark Dacascos is a name associated with a string of cult favourites like Crying Freeman, Drive and Brotherhood of the Wolf. He’s also known to TV audiences for his recurring villainy in Hawaii 5-0 and the recent Wu Assassins (not […]

A look back at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser… For a good few years, rumours of a Hellraiser reboot have been on the table. The whispers and near starts have persisted for a long time along with a number of other false starting reboots like Highlander and The Crow. Now it appears that HBO […]

Quit While You’re Ahead: Why Bad Boys 4 is Too Much of a Good Thing

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the prospect of Bad Boys 4 after the success of Bad Boys For Life… Bad Boys For Life, a long awaited third entry in the franchise, came out earlier this year to not only the best reviews of the series, but a surprisingly strong opening weekend on its way to almost […]

The Greatest Action Directors of All Time

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the greatest action directors of all time… The action genre has never particularly had the greatest respect associated with it. Maybe there’s a feeling that they’re dramatically anaemic, or sometimes intellectually inferior, but this isn’t always the case. It’s a genre that doesn’t always have consistent specialists, because certain directors who […]

What Happened To Alex Proyas?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the career, rise and fall of Alex Proyas… Born to Greek parents in Egypt and subsequently raised in Australia, you could say that Alex Proyas has an interesting background. He started, as a lot of film directors have, in music videos (working with the likes of INXS and Sting). To many […]

The Greatest Director of All Time?

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Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time? One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith […]