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Movie Review – Arco (2025)

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Arco, 2025. Directed by Ugo Bienvenu. Featuring the voice talents of Juliano Krue Valdi, Romy Fay, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Will Ferrell, Andy Samberg, Flea, Roeg Sutherland, America Ferrera, Zoya Bogomolova, and Wyatt Danieluk. SYNOPSIS: In 2075, a girl witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. He comes from an […]

Movie Review – Alpha (2025)

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Alpha, 2025. Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani and Emma Mackey. SYNOPSIS: Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm. Julia Ducournau’s astonishing debut Raw and […]

Suspense thriller Death Among the Pines unveils trailer and poster

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We’re delighted to debut the official trailer and poster for Death Among the Pines, the new suspense thriller from Flickering Myth Films, Shepka Productions and Jolliffe Productions. Available to stream now exclusively in the US via Prime Video ahead of a full release in early 2026, the film is directed by Nathan Shepka (Dead Before […]

Movie Review – Rebuilding (2025)

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Rebuilding, 2025. Written and Directed by Max Walker-Silverman. Starring Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann Fahy, Kali Reis, Amy Madigan, Jefferson Mays, Nancy Morlan, Sam Engbring, Binky Griptite, Eli Malouff, Zeilyanna Martinez, and Jules Reid. SYNOPSIS: After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who […]

Movie Review – Playdate (2025)

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Playdate, 2025. Directed by Luke Greenfield. Starring Kevin James, Alan Ritchson, Sarah Chalke, Alan Tudyk, Stephen Root, and Isla Fisher. SYNOPSIS: Brian has just been fired from his job. He becomes a stay-at-home dad. He accepts a playdate invitation from another stay-at-home dad who turns out to be a loose cannon. This is nuts to […]

Eight Great Prison Movies You Might Have Missed

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Flickering Myth’s Casey Chong presents eight great prison movies for your watch list… Notable prison movies such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Papillon and Escape from Alcatraz rule the genre, offering a mix of character-driven stories with emotional and dramatic urgency behind the locked cells. But there’s a healthy selection of great prison […]

10 Essential 90s Noir Movies to Enjoy This Noirvember

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November is a good time for noir cinema, and the 90s were full of great and underseen gems; Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe presents a selection of ten you need to see… Dark tales with morally obtuse protagonists, criminal plots, dripping in shadowy aesthetics and neglected corners of the towns or cities they’re set. Film noir […]

Movie Review – Sirāt (2025)

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Sirāt, 2025. Directed by Oliver Laxe. Starring Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson, Richard Bellamy, Tonin Janvier, and Jade Oukid. SYNOPSIS: A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. […]

The Night Manager season 2 trailer teases the return of Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine

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Following a batch of first look images for The Night Manager, the BBC has debuted a teaser for the eagerly-anticipated second season of the espionage thriller. The series sees the return of Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine, now living under an alias in the quiet role of MI6 surveillance officer. However, the appearance of an old […]

Movie Review – Jay Kelly (2025)

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Jay Kelly, 2025. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig, Alba Rohrwacher, Josh Hamilton, Lenny Henry, Emily Mortimer, Isla Fisher, and Noah Baumbach. SYNOPSIS: Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, […]