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Sugar Coating Hollywood-Style

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Tom Jolliffe on when real life stories are sugar coated in film… A good biopic can be fascinating. There are characters, through TV and print media, biographies, documentaries and more, that we learn the most fascinating things about. Documentaries of course have the goal of showing us (when done right) both sides of a personality, […]

Bohemian Rhapsody home entertainment release to feature full Live Aid recreation

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After a stellar box office run which has seen the film gross $715 million worldwide, 20th Century Fox has announced the home-entertainment release of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which is set to include a full recreation of Queen’s iconic Live Aid performance as part of the special features. The extended Live Aid Movie […]

Bryan Singer releases statement in response to his firing from Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody

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Bryan Singer has released a statement in response to the news of his removal as director of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. According to the director, the claims against him have gotten way out of hand. Here is his statement in full, courtesy of THR: “I wanted nothing more than to be able to […]

Movie Review – Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen. Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, Aaron McCusker, Dermot Murphy, Meneka Das, Ace Bhatti, Dickie Beau, Neil Fox-Roberts, Philip Andrew, Matthew Houston, Michelle Duncan, Max Bennett, Adam Rauf, Scott Morrison Watson, and Mike Myers. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle […]

Blu-ray Review – Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen. Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, Aaron McCusker, Dermot Murphy, Meneka Das, Ace Bhatti, Dickie Beau, Neil Fox-Roberts, Philip Andrew, Matthew Houston, Michelle Duncan, Max Bennett, Adam Rauf, Scott Morrison Watson and Mike Myers. SYNOPSIS: Bohemian Rhapsody […]

Rocketman director considered a Rami Malek Freddie Mercury cameo

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Director Dexter Fletcher has revealed that he considered bringing together two of music’s biggest icons in this year’s Elton John film Rocketman. Having stepped in to complete Bohemian Rhapsody following Bryan Singer’s firing, Fletcher gave some thought to have Rami Malek reprising his Oscar-winning role as Freddie Mercury for a brief cameo in a scene […]

Ranking 2019’s Best Picture Nominees

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Liam Hoofe ranks this year’s Best Picture nominees… The 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony is set to take place this Sunday night and yet again, it’s been quite a wild ride for The Academy in the build-up to the ceremony this year. Not only have they had to contend with losing the show’s originally planned […]

Road to the Oscars 2019 – Can Bohemian Rhapsody win Best Picture?

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In the week before the 91st Academy Awards are handed out, Tom Beasley takes a look at each Best Picture nominee and its chances of Oscars victory. Next, the most divisive nominee as Queen hits the big screen in Bohemian Rhapsody… This year, box office has made a big impression in the Best Picture shortlist. […]

BAFTAs 2019: Roma won the top prize, but Olivia Colman won our hearts

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Tom Beasley was at the glamorous BAFTAs ceremony last night on behalf of Flickering Myth. Here, he shares his take on the evening, the awards and that excruciating opening monologue… There were a lot of winners at the BAFTAs last night. Rami Malek cemented himself as the Best Actor frontrunner for the Oscars, The Favourite […]