Henry of Navarre a.k.a. Henri 4, 2010. Directed by Jo Baier. Starring Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król and Andreas Schmidt. SYNOPSIS: After the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, the Protestant Henry of Navarre must use all of his guile both to stay alive and maneuver for the throne of France. July the 4th is of course a […]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2011. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Malkovich, Alan Tudyk, Frances McDormand, Peter Cullen, Leonard Nimoy and Hugo Weaving. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day, threatening to unleash […]

Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill, 2008. Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. Starring David Kross, Christian Redl and Daniel Brühl. SYNOPSIS: A boy goes to work at a mysterious mill and learns the black arts from a sorcerer. After a ‘30 years war’, most of Europe is devastated and the people are suffering from […]

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 […]