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Fantasy series The Dresden Files in development as a TV show

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Fox21 Television Studios has won a competitive bidding war for the rights to Jim Butcher’s New York Times bestselling book series The Dresden Files and is set to development a TV adaptation of the contemporary fantasy.Launching in 2000, The Dresden Files follow Harry Dresden, a private investigator and wizard who explores supernatural disturbances in modern […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Utøya – July 22

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Utøya – July 22, 2018.Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, and Solveig Koløen Birkeland.SYNOPSIS:After detonating a bomb in a government building on 22 July 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik took his murderous attack to the heart of Norway: a  summer camp on Utøya island. With the victims unable to escape, his murder spree […]

Movie Review – Sink (2018)

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Sink, 2018.Written and directed by Mark Gillis. Starring Martin Herdman, Ian Hogg, Josh Herdman, Tracey Wilkinson, Marlene Sidaway, Mark Gillis and Sadie Shimmin.SYNOPSIS:A factory worker is hit with the double whammy of losing his job and being forced to care for his dementia-suffering father when the care home in which he has lived for years […]

Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Book of Consequences: Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies’

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Red Stewart reviews the season 2 premiere of Black Lightning…I don’t think I’ve ever seen a superhero show as eager to rush to a series finale as Black Lightning. The Arrowverse as a whole has gained notoriety for hurrying through interesting plot lines only to suffer from filler down the line (The Flash moving through “Flashpoint” in just […]

Exclusive Interview – Cinematographer Juan Sebastian Baron on shooting Searching and the perks of the Digital Age

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Red Stewart chats with Juan Sebastian Baron about Searching….Juan Sebastian Baron is an American cinematographer who has been working in the film and television industries since the 2010s. He is best known for his work on the horror film The House on Pine Street and the recent thriller Searching.Flickering Myth had the privilege to interview […]

Disney’s live-action Aladdin gets a first teaser trailer

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After unveiling a first teaser poster earlier in the week, Disney has now debuted a teaser trailer for director Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of the animated classic Aladdin.Although there’s no sign of Will Smith’s Genie or Naomi Scott’s Jasmine, we do get a look at Mena Massoud’s title character as he enters the Cave of […]

Robin Hood featurette takes us ‘behind the hood’

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A new ‘Behind the Hood’ featurette has arrived online for Robin Hood ahead of its release next month, which takes us behind the scenes of the upcoming action adventure and includes interviews with director Otto Bathurst, and stars Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, and Ben Mendelsohn; watch it here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxiEgZBptkRobin of Loxley (Taron […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ash Is Purest White

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Ash Is Purest White, 2018.Directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Zhao Tao and Liao Fan.SYNOPSIS:A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.The latest epic drama from revered Chinese director Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart) feels less-assured than his prior efforts while also raking over similar themes and ideas to […]

New trailer and poster for Ben Is Back starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges

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Coinciding with is US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival, a new trailer has been released for writer-director Peter Hedges’ upcoming drama Ben is Back which stars Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, and Kathryn Newton; watch it here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xMczla9_XQUPDATE: And here’s the first poster…19 year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his […]