Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) has signed on and Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is in talks to star in the long-gestating comedy Absolutely Anything, which most of the Monty Python team are involved with. The film follows a teacher who discovers he has […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Australian documentarians Justin McMillan and Chris Nelius about Storm Surfers 3D… Russ Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll When he had his first meeting with Australian tow-surfing legend Russ Clarke-Jones seven years ago, little did filmmaker Justin McMillan realize that their creative relationship would result in four documentaries.  “We pitched on Russ’ life […]

Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse) is going to star as Brian Epstein in a biopic that tells the story of the manager of The Beatles. Epstein, who signed the band in 1961 and passed away in 1967 from an accidental drug overdose, is sometimes called “the fifth Beatle”. Todd Graff wrote the […]

With a group of eleven journalists, Trevor Hogg had an opportunity to have a chat with Brian De Palma about his latest cinematic offering Passion… While promoting Passion (2013) at the Toronto International Film Festival, American writer-director Brian De Palma participated in a round table interview to discuss his latest cinematic effort.  “I thought the […]

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 […]