The Silent House, 2010. Directed by Gustavo Hernández. Starring Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, María Salazar and Gustavo Alonso. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and her father begin work on renovating a sleepy country cottage, which hides a dark secret. Whatever happened to traditional ghost stories set in creepy old houses? Modern horror has become a competition […]

Well, it’s that time of year again when we’re inundated with critics’ picks for the best films of the past twelve months and – after resisting the urge in 2009 – it’s about time we got in on the act here at Flickering Myth. Rather than presenting individual lists from our writing team we’ve taken […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the third of a five part feature… read part one and part two. “At Studio Ghibli we currently conduct what we call “product study meetings,” where we select a scenario and all read it,” stated Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in reference to the […]

After a rocky couple of months which saw Edgar Wright exiting the project due to creative differences – followed by the departure of  cast members Patrick Wilson, Matt Gerald and Kevin Weisman – Marvel Studios’ first Phase Three offering Ant-Man has finally kicked off production today in San Francisco, with director Peyton Reed (Down with […]

Roger Holland on the ‘ultimate everyman’, John Cusack… This article contains a fair few spoilers. If you haven’t seen Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity, shame on you. Also you may want to stop reading. Following her break-up with Lloyd Dobler, Diane Court lies in bed unable to sleep. Faintly at first, the […]

With talk of Michael Fassbender as a potential future Bond, Liam Trim oversees a battle between the X-Men: First Class star and 007 himself, Daniel Craig… Okay so I know technically Michael Fassbender isn’t a Bond but there was no way I was calling this anything else. If you’ve seen the new X-Men film you’ll […]

The Halfway House, 1944. Directed by Basil Dearden. Starring Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns and Sally Ann Howes. SYNOPSIS: A group of strangers take shelter at a remote Welsh Inn during a storm where they are soon brought together by a series of unsettling events. If you are yet to enter the competition here at Flickering […]

Director of the outstanding Snowtown – Justin Kurzel – took some time out of his well deserved Cannes-paign to talk with Blake Howard about the experience of his masterpiece… BH: Snowtown feels like a scientific experiment, it creates/portrays the conditions that a serial killing troupe can exist. How much did the setting and local cast affect […]

Jean Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors, 2011. Directed by Jared White. Starring Jean Claude Van Damme. Narrated by Jason Flemyng. SYNOPSIS: A reality show giving unprecedented access into the life of action star Jean Claude Van Damme. In the mid-80’s, a young, and buffedly (yes, I just invented that word!) goofy looking young Belgian, […]

Luke Owen feasts on the ‘American Pie’ trilogy… Before I begin this week’s issue, I can already hear a lot of you alerting me to rule number one of my Talkin’ Trilogy series: 1. “It has to be a trilogy” So, the question is, is American Pie really a trilogy? I referred to Indiana Jones […]