The World Before Her, 2012.Directed by Nisha Pahuja.Starring Pooja Chopra, Marc Robinson, Ankita Shorey, Ruhi Singh, and Prachi Trivedi SYNOPSIS:Traditional and Western values collide as one group of women attends a Hindu fundamentalist training camp while the other competes at the Miss India Beauty Pageant. 20 hand-picked contestants attend a month long beauty boot camp in hopes of being crowned Miss […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team vote for their favourite James Bond films before Skyfall, the 23rd entry in the franchise, hits cinemas… If an alien race observed our cinematic habits over the past 50 years they may well pick out one particular universal constant, one glamorously unchanging law. No matter what happens in the world or […]

In the House (French: Dans la maison), 2012. Directed by François Ozon.Starring Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Denis Ménochet and Emmanuelle Seigner. SYNOPSIS: A sixteen-year-old student befriends a classmate and writes stories about his family, leaving his tutor compelled by his great work. However, the student’s writing leads to a series of events […]

Our Children (French: À perdre la raison), 2012. Directed by Joachim Lafosse.Starring Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Stéphane Bissot, Mounia Raoui and Redouane Behache. SYNOPSIS: A young woman struggles with depression as her four children, husband and father in-law’s personal demands take a toll. After leaving the screening for Our Children, I wondered how […]

Rust and Bone (French: De rouille et d’os), 2012. Directed by Jacques Audiard.Starring Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners, Celine Sallette, Corinne Masiero and Alex Martin. SYNOPSIS: A single father helps a whale trainer recover after a terrible accident that confines her to a wheelchair. Jacque Audiard completely shook the foundations of the Cannes Film […]

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 […]