Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Bill Westenhofer and Guillaume Rocheron about their Academy Award winning work on Life of Pi… “If I was a numerologist I would be upset because I missed by 10 days being on the project for 3.14 years,” jokes Bill Westenhofer who served as the visual effects supervisor for […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Lucy Alibar about her play being transformed into the Oscar darling Beasts of the Southern Wild, as well as a new project with horror maestro Guillermo del Toro… The Academy Awards were expected to copy the BAFTA nominations; however, the Hollywood event decided to take a left turn and honour an independent film […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award winner Colleen Atwood about her Oscar nominated costume design work on Snow White and the Huntsman… Contending for an Oscar is nothing new for Colleen Atwood (The Silence of the Lambs) who has won three Academy Awards and received her 10th nomination for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012); […]

In the first of a new feature, two Flickering Myth writers go head to head to debate a hot topic from the world of a film. Here, Oliver Davis takes on Chris Cooper to decide whether a new Transformers trilogy is a good idea…The Motion: ‘A New Transformers trilogy is a great idea. Michael Bay […]

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, 2012. Directed by Roman Coppola. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Patricia Arquette, Katheryn Winnick, Aubrey Plaza, Dermot Mulroney and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. SYNOPSIS: A 1970s graphic designer is thrown into psychological turmoil when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Upon discovering compromising pictures of Charles Swan III (Charlie Sheen) […]

Recently the Internet was abuzz when Roman Coppola mentioned he had planned to do a comic book movie with his cousin Nicolas Cage (The Rock) portraying Doctor Strange.  I brought up the subject while talking to the writer-director about his latest movie A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012). “Nowadays it’s over […]

Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, Lawless) is set to star in the first film from the newly relaunched marketing and distribution company Picturehouse. Metallica: Through The Never, written and directed by Nimrod Antal (Predators), will feature the rock band and focus on DeHaan as a member of their crew. He is sent on an urgent mission while […]

Trevor Hogg chats with film editor William Goldenberg about working with Ben Affleck and the challenges of assembling Argo… “Ben [Affleck] was a much more sophisticated director on Argo [2012] than he was on Gone Baby Gone [2007],” observes William Goldenberg who assembled the directorial debut as well as the third effort from the Hollywood […]

Nowhere to Go, 1958. Directed by Seth Holt.Starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries. SYNOPSIS: After breaking out of prison, a thief and conman attempts to flee the country only to end up on the run in the Welsh countryside. Don’t expect to sympathise with a man like Paul […]

360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: An international look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships, that ultimately intersect and interact. . 360 is a drama of ambitious scope, that skips through themes […]