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Crisis of Faith in Cinema

March 27, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look at films about crisis of faith… The subject of faith in cinema has been around since the beginning. Whether this is faith in a religious sense, or spiritual, or of the self, it is in that test, or crisis of faith which sees a character put through a quest to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, First Reformed, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, Stalker, The Exorcist, The Seventh Seal, Winter Light

Oscars 2019: Biggest snubs and surprises from the Academy Award nominations

January 22, 2019 by Tom Beasley

Tom Beasley takes a dive into the Oscar nominations to spotlight the biggest snubs and surprises from today’s shortlists… Today, the final nominations for the Oscars 2019 were announced over in Hollywood, sending a mixture of joy and rage rattling through the film world. As usual, most of the major players were pretty easy to […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: a star is born, Academy Awards, BlacKkKlansman, Bradley Cooper, Ethan Hawke, First Man, First Reformed, Green Book, John David Washington, Mary Poppins Returns, Oscars, Oscars 2019, Peter Farrelly, Roma, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Oscars 2019: Predicting the nominations in the main categories

January 17, 2019 by Tom Beasley

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 […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: A Quiet Place, a star is born, Academy Awards, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Can You Ever Forgive Me, Cold War, Crazy Rich Asians, First Reformed, Green Book, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Oscars, Roma, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Favourite, The Wife, Vice

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2018

December 31, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2018… As 2018 draws to a close, the writers here at Flickering Myth have been looking back over another twelve months of cinema to vote on our favourite movies of the year. As always, our writers have shared their personal top ten picks, which we’ve […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Gary Collinson, Movies Tagged With: A Quiet Place, a star is born, American Animals, Anna and the Apocalypse, Annihilation, Avengers: Infinity War, Bad Times at the El Royale, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, First Man, First Reformed, Hereditary, Incredibles 2, Lady Bird, Leave No Trace, Love Simon, Mandy, Phantom Thread, Roma, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, You Were Never Really Here

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Review – First Reformed

May 20, 2018 by Robert Kojder

First Reformed, 2018. Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Philip Ettinger, Michael Gaston, Victoria Hill, and Van Hansis. SYNOPSIS: A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Amanda Seyfried, Cedric The Entertainer, Ethan Hawke, First Reformed, Michael Gaston, Paul Schrader, Philip Ettinger, Van Hansis, Victoria Hill

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – First Reformed

May 11, 2018 by Robert Kojder

Hope and despair is the equivalent to the metaphorically persuasive angel and the devil on the shoulders of one of God’s lonely souls, a pastor at the titular First Reformed church. The establishment is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary regardless of the fact that attendance has gone the way of the dodo (among other […]

Filed Under: Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: First Reformed

Paul Schrader’s First Reformed gets a poster and trailer

March 29, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

A24 has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Paul Schrader’s upcoming thriller First Reformed. The film stars Ethan Hawke as a parish pastor struggling from a crisis of faith following a series of tragic events, and also features Amanda Seyfried and Cedric Kyles. Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Amanda Seyfried, Cedric Kyles, Ethan Hawke, First Reformed, Paul Schrader

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