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, […]

Despite Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides all breaking the $1 billion mark at the global box office, 2011 hasn’t exactly been the best of years for Hollywood studios. According to a report from The New York Times, box office […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Warner Bros. gave Batman fans an early Christmas present this past Monday with the online release of the second theatrical trailer for The Dark Knight Rises and – with anticipation for Christopher Nolan’s Gotham swansong reaching fever pitch – it quickly […]

Steven Spielberg has been doing the press rounds to promote The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse and the ever-busy filmmaker has taken the opportunity to update the status of some of his upcoming projects, including the highly-anticipated fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, the not-so-highly-anticipated-judging-by-its-box-office sequel to The Secret of the Unicorn, and […]