Suddenly the James Bond franchise has momentum with Denis Villeneuve getting the director’s job, but is he the right choice to relaunch 007? After years of waiting for tangible news, aside from a change of ownership, we’re suddenly hit with the confirmation that the next iteration of 007 has a director. That man is Denis […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2016
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2016… As 2016 draws to a close and we ring in the New Year, Flickering Myth’s writers have been putting our collective heads together to vote on the best cinematic offerings from the past twelve months. As always, we’ve voted on our individual top ten […]
Essential Time Travel Movies Part II
Tom Jolliffe offers up a second round of essential time travel movies… Having already established that cinema has a longstanding fascination with time travel with my previous ten essentials, it’s high time to add another ten to the mix. As a starting point for so many films it goes without saying that there have been […]
Marvelous Movies for Hard Science Fiction Lovers
Marvelous Videos with some movie recommendations for hard sci-fi lovers… It’s easy to exploit the science fiction genre for its ludicrous narrative potential. After all, as long as you can loosely relate your story concept back to something semi-realistic, you can technically call your motion picture an adherent of the “sci-fi” category. That being said, […]
Oscars: And the winners of the 89th Academy Awards are…
Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]
Blu-ray Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Tzi Ma. SYNOPSIS: When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors. In an era full of crash-bang-gee-whiz science-fiction films, a movie like Arrival is […]
Critical Thinking: What You Like vs. What Is ‘Good’
I’ve been writing about film for a long time. To quote Nicki Minaj; I’ve been hot since flip phones. In another couple of years I’ll be at the point where I can describe the span of time I’ve spent reviewing and writing about movies as ‘decades’. When you’ve been doing anything that long, you notice […]
James Ponsoldt to team up with Arrival producers for Inconstant Moon adaptation
James Ponsoldt, director of The Spectacular Now, may still be in post-production on his latest cinematic effort, The Circle, but that hasn’t stopped him from committing to his next project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ponsoldt will be directing a film adaptation of Inconstant Moon, an award-winning science fiction short story from author Larry Niven, for […]
Were Amy Adams, Clint Eastwood and Finding Dory snubbed by the Oscars?
Anghus Houvouras on whether Amy Adams, Clint Eastwood and Finding Dory were snubbed by the Oscars with today’s Academy Award nominations… No. They totally weren’t. None of them belonged on that list. There’s the short version. Here’s the long one. Every year the Oscar nominations stir up controversy. There are times where the incredulity is […]
The Academy narrows shortlist for Best Visual Effects Oscar to ten films
Last month the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a twenty-film longlist for the nominees for Best Visual Effects at the 89th Academy Awards, and now it has been revealed that the list has been whittled down to ten: Arrival The BFG Captain America: Civil War Deepwater Horizon Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where […]
