South Central, 1992. Directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson. Starring Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham and Christian Coleman. SYNOPSIS: In South Central, Los Angeles, Bobby, a gang member is put away in prison for ten years after committing a murder. During his time inside, he learns that his son is doomed to follow the same […]

Devil’s Gate, 2003. Directed by Stuart St. Paul. Starring Laura Fraser, Callum Blue, Luke Aikman and Tom Bell. SYNOPSIS: A woman is called to travel back to the small north sea island that she ran away from five years ago. During her stay, she tries to find out what happened to her mother. One of […]

Panic Button, 2011. Directed by Chris Crow. Starring Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson, Elen Rhys and Joshua Richards. SYNOPSIS: A group of four win a chartered flight to New York via a social networking site, but the competition is not what it seems and neither are the competition winners. The paranoia around social […]

The Poet, 2003. Directed by Paul Hills. Starring Dougray Scott, Laura Harring, Jürgen Prochnow, Andrew Lee Potts and Erika Marozsán. SYNOPSIS: A contract killer in Vienna kills a young artist during a hit. After discovering the artists’ work, he promptly falls in love with his grieving sister. Ever since the outstanding Leon, contract killers in […]

The Interrupters, 2011. Directed by Steve James. Starring Eddie Bocanegra, Tio Hardiman, Ameena Matthews, Gary Slutkin and Ricardo “Cobe” Williams. SYNOPSIS: A documentary on three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. Chicago has had a long history of crime. From the early 20th Century days of […]

L’amour fou, 2010. Directed by Pierre Thoretton. Starring Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Bergé, Betty Catroux, Loulou De La Falaise and Jack Lang. SYNOPSIS: A documentary on the life and work of French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Just like any creative industry, the world of fashion has it’s major innovators. Some saw a gap in the […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The Dark Knight Rises continued to dominate the headlines this week as a Los Angeles press screening of the six-minute prologue was accompanied by the first steps in the viral marketing campaign of the hugely-anticipated sequel, code-named ‘Operation Early Bird’. […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Anticipation for The Dark Knight Rises went into overdrive this past week with the build up to the release of the six-minute IMAX prologue and new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong, both of which generated huge amounts of […]

Gary Collinson chats with José Padilha, director of Elite Squad, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the upcoming RoboCop remake… Earlier this month I had the opportunity to speak to José Padilha, the acclaimed director of Bus 174 and Elite Squad, about his latest film, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, which comes to DVD and […]

José Padilha talks to Flickering Myth about his upcoming RoboCop remake…Earlier today I was fortunate enough to interview José Padilha ahead of the UK home entertainment release of Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the Brazilian filmmaker answered a few questions about his next project, the upcoming remake of Paul Verhoeven’s cult 1987 classic, RoboCop. […]