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Deja Vu: The Dull Predictability of the Hollywood Tentpole Lineup

January 4, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on whether the yearly line ups of Blockbusters are becoming too predictable… So new year rolls around, as time inevitably guarantees. At the end of the year we invariably look back. Best of lists permeate film sites across the internet land. Then as soon as we kick into a new January, we start […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Aquaman, Avengers: Infinity War, Blade Runner 2049, DC, DC Extended Universe, Flatliners, Get Out, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2017

December 31, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2017… With 2017 drawing to a close in just a few hours, the writers here at Flickering Myth have been voting on our favourite films of the past twelve months, in order to present our top ten movies of the year. As with previous years, […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Gary Collinson, Movies Tagged With: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, Logan, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Disaster Artist, War for the Planet of the Apes

The Highest Grossing Movies of 2017

December 29, 2017 by Luke Owen

Luke Owen explores the highest grossing movies of 2017… Another movie year has come to a close, and what a year it has been. We’ve had five movies from the Marvel and DC movie universes, another entry into Star Wars cannon, and several horror films break into the mainstream media and earn huge money at […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Luke Owen, Movies, US Box Office Tagged With: Ant-Man and the Wasp, Aquaman, Avengers: Infinity War, Beauty and the Beast, Black Panther, Deadpool 2, Despicable Me 3, Dunkirk, Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindelwald, Get Out, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, It, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Justice League, Kong: Skull Island, Logan, Mission: Impossible 6, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Ready Player One, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Boss Baby, The Fate of the Furious, The Incredibles 2, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Predator, Thor: Ragnarok, tomb raider, Transformers: The Last Knight, Venom, Wolf Warrior 2, Wonder Woman

Disney win the US box office crown for second year in a row

December 28, 2017 by Matt Rodgers

Largely thanks to the cinematic behemoths that were Beauty and the Beast ($504m) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($423m and counting), Disney has once again won the race to be crowned the domestic box office champions with $2.27 billion in the studio account. At the time of writing, Disney held a 21.3% market share, ahead of […]

Filed Under: Movies, News Tagged With: Beauty and the Beast, Get Out, Justice League, Logan, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Has Film Declined In The 21st Century?

December 17, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on whether standards in film have dropped this century… I’ve made passing reference to it before, but the tail end of the year always brings time for reflection, and I’ve often bemoaned the decline in important cinema being made in recent years. This is the stuff of miserable old git conversations in the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Iron Man, No Country for Old Men, Seven Samurai, Stalker, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, The Matrix, There Will be Blood, Thor: Ragnarok

The 15 Best Horror Movies of 2017

December 16, 2017 by Tom Beasley

Tom Beasley examines the best horror movies of 2017, from sharp social satire to an evil clown… The reaction to 2017’s horror movie slate has, bizarrely, been one of surprise. It’s as if a year of impressive scary movies is somehow a rarity, when in fact the genre has consistently delivered strong movies in recent […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Annabelle: Creation, Gerald's Game, Get Out, Happy Death Day, It, It Comes at Night, Killing Ground, mother!, Personal Shopper, Prevenge, Raw, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Eyes of My Mother, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Limehouse Golem

The Golden Globes are absolutely useless in predicting Oscars success

December 11, 2017 by Tom Beasley

Tom Beasley argues that the Golden Globes do not deserve their position as a major awards ceremony and Oscars precursor… The film world briefly lit up with awards excitement earlier today with the announcement of the nominations for the 2018 Golden Globes. It was Guillermo del Toro’s warm and wildly enjoyable fantasy romance The Shape […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, Golden Globes, The Martian, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Washington film critics hand top prize to Get Out

December 9, 2017 by Tom Beasley

Get Out continued its awards season push by winning a pair of prizes at the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association awards ceremony, including Best Film. Jordan Peele’s racially-charged satire also won the award for Best Original Screenplay at the annual ceremony, while missing out on the director prize. It was Christopher Nolan who won […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Movies, News, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

American Film Institute announces AFI Top Ten for 2017

December 8, 2017 by Gary Collinson

The American Film Institute has announced its list of the top ten U.S. movies of 2017: The Big Sick Call Me By Your Name Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wonder Woman The above films will all be hoping to pick up […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, the big sick, The Florida Project, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Wonder Woman

Flickering Myth Film Class: How to Open Strongly

October 8, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at how to open strongly… It takes a great deal to get an audience to succumb to your film. You need to keep their attention for the entirety of the film. The best way to hook them in of course is to open […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Brazil, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Get Out, Manhattan, Scream, Spectre

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