Mindhorn, 2016. Directed by Sean Foley. Starring Julian Barrett, Essie Davis, Russell Tovey, Andrea Riseborough, Jessica Barden, Harriet Walter, Kenneth Branagh, and Steve Coogan. SYNOPSIS: A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series “Mindhorn” must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only […]
Movie Review – Assassin’s Creed (2016)
Assassin’s Creed, 2016. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Michael K. Williams, Charlotte Rampling, Denis Menochet, Ariane Labed, Khalid Abdalla, Essie Davis, and Brendan Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: When Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, he discovers he is a descendant of […]
October Horrors Day 14 – The Babadook (2014)
The Babadook, 2014 Directed by Jennifer Kent Starring Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman SYNOPSIS: Amelia is a lonely and deeply stressed widow struggling to raise her deeply troubled young son Sam, who is often finding himself in bother at school and with other children. To add to Amelia’s troubles, it seems that she and her […]
Christmas e-card from The Babadook
IFC Films has released a Christmas e-card for the New Zealand horror The Babadook (which Flickering Myth co-editor Luke Owen called the best film of FrightFest and one of the best movies of the year) entitled ‘How the ‘Dook Stole Christmas’, and you can check it out here… Six years after the violent death of […]
Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 8 Review – No One
No One Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed by Mark Mylod Arya With a title like ‘No One’, you’d be forgiven this week’s Game of Thrones might throw quite the focus on Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), a girl who just can’t live up to the episode title, try as she might. I almost […]
DVD Review – The Babadook (2014)
The Babadook, 2014 Directed by Jennifer Kent Starring Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West and Tim Purcell SYNOPSIS: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. The horror movie is […]
