Matt Rodgers on the top 10 movie moments of 2017… If you were putting together a showreel to represent the outstanding moments beamed onto a cinema canvas from the past year, then you’d have plenty to choose from; Emma Stone’s hypnotic rendition of The Fools Who Dream from La La Land. The Mr. Blue Sky […]
The Creativity of Sequels
George Chrysostomou on creativity in sequels… It has to be said, adaptations, sequels and soft reboots are dominating the box office year in and out and there’s no getting away from that. This is the most profitable way to produce films, having a pre-existing audience, an easy way into a new story, and most importantly […]
Flickering Myth’s most anticipated movies of 2017
Flickering Myth get excited for the year ahead of us… After a fairly below-average year at the cinema last year, we here at Flickering Myth are feeling rather hopeful for 2017. There are some fantastic films lined up; including a load of comic book movies, the return of Christopher Nolan and King Kong, a new […]
From Dusk Till Dawn’s Eiza Gonzalez joins Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver
Eiza Gonazalez (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series) has signed on to appear in Baby Driver, the upcoming crime thriller from director Edgar Wright, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Baby Driver follows “a young, talented getaway driver who relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best. After being coerced into working […]
Jon Hamm joins Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver
Variety is reporting that Mad Men star Jon Hamm is set to join the cast of Edgar Wright’s new film Baby Driver, where he’ll appear alongside Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars), Lily James (Cinderella) and Jamie Foxx (Horrible Bosses). Wright’s first film since dropping out of Marvel’s Ant-Man, Baby Driver “concerns a young, […]
Jamie Foxx in negotiations to join Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver
Deadline is exclusively reporting that Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained) is in talks to join the cast of Edgar Wright’s new film Baby Driver. Foxx is set to play a crime boss, who “coerces a young, talented getaway driver to work for him”. Ansel Elgort (The Fault In Our Stars) and Lily James (Cinderella) have already […]
Ansel Elgort joins Edgar Wright’s next movie Baby Driver
Edgar Wright’s next movie is gaining momentum after securing financial backing and receiving the green light from Sony and now it has cast its leading man in The Fault In Our Stars‘ Ansel Elgort. Baby Driver – which is also being co-written by Wright – will be his first directing job since controversially leaving Marvel’s […]
Kevin Spacey joining Baby Driver and Billionaire Boys Club
Kevin Spacey is lining up a couple of new projects, with Deadline reporting that the actor is set to join Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and James Cox’s Billionaire Boys Club, both of which will see him appearing alongside Ansel Elgort. Baby Driver, Wright’s first film since The World’s End, follows “a crime boss who coerces […]
The Oscars: Does the Academy know better than the fans?
George Chrysostomou on the Academy Awards… The yearly debate has reared its head again as to whether the Oscars truly capture the feelings that audiences had towards films in 2017. Whilst there is always the ongoing issue of the ever increasing divide between fans and the critics, as evidenced by recent pickings such as Star Wars: […]
Is the future of film original screenplays or franchise continuations?
George Chrysostomou on original screenplays vs. franchises… After watching Edgar Wright’s critically and commercially successful Baby Driver, it struck me that this was the first movie I had watched in a while that was not only imaginative and unique, but was not based on any source material such as a novel or comic series, not a […]
