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Has the Oscars Finally Embraced “The Weird”?

November 12, 2023 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at the Academy Awards and the new era of films vying for recognition… As we enter a new awards season, it’s refreshing to look at the landscape of potential contenders. Loving the race to the Academy Awards for decades and later entering my own awards season as a Critics Choice Association voter, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, EJ Moreno, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Academy Awards, Barbie, Black Swan, Christopher Nolan, Everything Everywhere All at Once, greta gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, Poor Things, The Dark Knight, The Shape of Water, yorgos lanthimos

Darren Aronofsky is working on a Black Swan musical

December 15, 2022 by EJ Moreno

Could we see Darren Aronofsky pull a John Waters and turn one of his biggest hits into a musical? It looks like it as the filmmaker expressed interest in turning the Oscar-winning Black Swan into a musical. While promoting his latest film, The Whale, Aronofsky spoke to The A.V. Club about his work and brought […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky

The Ten Best Horror Movies of the 2010s

October 1, 2020 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno on the best horror films of the last decade… While making this list, it dawned on me just how lucky horror fans were this past decade. Between 2010 and 2019, hundreds of genre films made their mark with viewers and shook the industry up. We saw comedy directors turn into masters of the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Black Sails, Black Swan, Evil Dead, Get Out, Hereditary, I Saw the Devil, It, The Babadook, The Conjuring, What We Do in the Shadows, You're Next

The Disturbed Outsider: A Cinematic Pathway Leading to Joker

October 11, 2019 by Tom Jolliffe

In the wake of Joker’s success, Tom Jolliffe looks at similar cinematic examples of the disturbed outsider… With a quarter billion in takings and counting, as well as divisive reviews, media attention up the wazoo, and a status (particularly among the 18-30 viewers) as a cinematic masterpiece, Joker’s depiction of disturbed isolation and disconnect from […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, Black Swan, Fight Club, Joker, Naked, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Possession, Pyscho, Sisters, The Shining, videodrome

From Midsommar to Us: The 3 Big Ways that Contemporary Horror Movies Use Dance

August 3, 2019 by admin

Mary Kay McBrayer on the ways that contemporary horror movies use dance… I remember the moment I realized that dance and horror were linked. I showed my Jiddo (grandfather) a video of my favorite belly dancer. The music accompanying her was gooey and ethereal, a Middle Eastern electronica folk fusion, her makeup shimmered, her muscles […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Mary Kay McBrayer, Movies Tagged With: Black Swan, climax, Midsommer, Suspiria, Us

The Cinematic 12 Days of Christmas

December 23, 2017 by Matt Rodgers

Matt Rodgers on the Cinematic 12 Days of Christmas… Tis the season, you know the one, no matter your own belief system you’re going to be exposed to seasonal songs being pumped into your every waking hour by supermarkets, cinemas, and family members. Here at Flickering Myth we’re not going to be a pre-ghosted Ebenezer […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Matt Rodgers, Movies, Television Tagged With: Alan Partridge, Aristocats, Billy Elliot, Black Swan, Chicken Run, Flashdance, Home Alone 2, Kingpin, Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, The Birds, Whiplash

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