Allen, Gerald, Tori, and EJ discuss their reactions to Captain Marvel (with some minor spoilers), early critical reaction to Jordan Peele’s Us, and much more. Email in your questions, feedback etc. to podcast@flickeringmyth.com. Listen to the podcast on Acast, follow us on Stitcher or subscribe to us on iTunes. Us is directed by Jordan Peele (Us) and stars Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther), […]
Rumour: Bohemian Rhapsody sequel in development
When a film grosses $875 million at the box office and picks up four Academy Awards including Best Actor, there’s a pretty good chance that the suits behind the movie are going to be falling over themselves to get the ball rolling on a sequel, and it seems that may be the case with last […]
Ranking 2019’s Best Picture Nominees
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?
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. […]
Blu-ray Review – Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
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 […]
BAFTAs 2019: Roma won the top prize, but Olivia Colman won our hearts
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 […]
BAFTA suspends Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody nomination due to sexual misconduct allegations
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that it has suspended Bryan Singer’s nomination at the upcoming British Academy Film Awards due to the recent allegations of sexual misconduct made against the filmmaker. Singer had been nominated alongside Bohemian Rhapsody producers Graham King and Anthony McCarten in the category of Outstanding British […]
Bryan Singer will reportedly make around $40 million from Bohemian Rhapsody, despite being fired
A $40 million pay day, after you’ve been fired from a project for allegedly failing to fulfil your duties? Nice work if you can get it… According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Bryan Singer is looking at bumper earnings from the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, with the site reporting that the filmmaker’s upfront and […]
Rami Malek says he “was not aware of” Bryan Singer allegations before Bohemian Rhapsody
Bryan Singer is back in the headlines this week, and it’s got nothing to do with the fact that his latest movie Bohemian Rhapsody picked up five nominations at the Oscars including Best Picture, but rather a fresh wave of allegations about sexual assault and misconduct. The allegations are sure to have put the dampeners […]
Oscars 2019: Predicting the nominations in the main categories
Tom Beasley has a shot at predicting which films will make their way on to the Academy’s shortlists in the main Oscars 2019 categories… Last year, I tried to predict the nominees in all of the main Oscar categories. There were some shortlists I got almost bang on, but others for which I was way […]