Part one of an updated two volume series titled Cinemas of the Other, A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey explores what it is like to produce movies in two countries where government censorship is driven by politics and religious beliefs.  To give readers a firsthand account, author Gönül Dönmez-Colin has included interview […]

Taken 2, 2012. Directed by Olivier Megaton.Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Rade Šerbedžija. SYNOPSIS: Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by a gang seeking revenge against Mills for his actions during the rescue of his daughter. Taken 2 is the worst film of the year and every […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Martin Deer with Thunderball… When I saw the notice pop up on the Flickering Myth Facebook page for us to pick our “favourite Bond” to review in the build-up to Skyfall I immediately typed “Thunderball” – […]

Trading her Emmy-winning Modern Family for a crime-fighting vigilante, Ariel Winter provides the voice of Batman’s trusted sidekick Robin who appears as a female for the first time in The Dark Knight Returns.  The teenage actress is no stranger to the world of animation as she has also been involved with ParaNorman (2012), Ice Age: […]

Liam Trim reviews Episodes 3 and 4 of BBC drama Parade’s End… Warning: Spoilers! In my review of Episode 1 of Parade’s End I said that Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) could give the performance of his career as archaic conservative Christopher Tietjens. And in that first episode his character really was the […]

Liam Trim reviews episodes 2 and 3 of the new series of Doctor Who… Warning: Spoilers! Dinosaurs on a Spaceship Sadly I don’t have the luxury of time travel and I can’t hop back seven days to ensure my thoughts on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship make it online on time. I can summarise my thoughts […]

Emperor, 2012. Directed by Peter Webber. Starring Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masayoshi Haneda and Kaori Momoi. SYNOPSIS: After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the American occupying forces led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur must decide whether to execute Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal. The American military occupational force under the command of General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) […]

The actor who used to play Quentin, the werewolf brother to vampire Barnabus Collins on the original ABC television series Dark Shadows, has been transformed into Commissioner James Gordon for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. To mark the arrival of Part 1, Warner Home Video has released a Q&A with the man behind the voice […]

Rhino Season, 2012. Directed by Bahman Ghobadi. Starring Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Belçim Bilgin, Caner Cindoruk, Arash Labaf and Ali Pourtash. SYNOPSIS:After spending 30 years in an Iranian prison, a poet searches for his wife. Inspired by a friend who was incarcerated during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, filmmaker Bahman Gobadi tells a […]

Much Ado About Nothing, 2012. Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Ashley Johnson, Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Sean Maher, Riki Lindhome and Spencer Treat Clark. SYNOPSIS:Sibling rivalry leads to a series of romantic miscommunications that threatens the ability of a young couple to marry. Considering he is known for writing […]