Kate Harrold shares her picks of the best animated films of the 2010s… The past decade has been a breakthrough for animated film. Toy Story (1995) may have been the first feature-length computer animated film, but animation studios of the 2010s have gone on to break even more unimaginable feats. The genre seems to have […]
Blu-ray Review – Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3
Brad Cook reviews Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3… SYNOPSIS: Pixar has scooped up the shorts they’ve released since 2012 for a new Blu-ray release called Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3. They’ve included 13 short films – a mix of theatrical releases and shorts issued elsewhere – along with a pair of brief featurettes […]
Ranking the Pixar Movies from Worst to Best
George Chrysostomou ranks the Pixar movies from worst to best… Coinciding with the release of Incredibles 2, we at Flickering Myth thought it was about time to do a full ranking of every Pixar film. To create this list, not only is this a culmination of my own opinions and other Flickering Myth writers, but also […]
The Oscars: Does the Academy know better than the fans?
George Chrysostomou on the Academy Awards… The yearly debate has reared its head again as to whether the Oscars truly capture the feelings that audiences had towards films in 2017. Whilst there is always the ongoing issue of the ever increasing divide between fans and the critics, as evidenced by recent pickings such as Star Wars: […]
Pixar has no plans for Ratatouille, WALL-E or Inside Out sequels
With Finding Dory out in U.S. cinemas and Cars 3, Toy Story 4 and The Incredibles II all on the horizon over the next few years, Pixar president Jim Morris has been discussing the studio’s approach to sequels, as well as revealing that there are no plans at present for follow-ups to Ratatouille, WALL-E and Inside Out. […]
Ranking Pixar: From Worst to Best
Edward Gardiner ranks Pixar’s movies from worst to best… Studio Ghibli runs them close, and even Dreamworks can come out with some crackers, but it’s hard to argue that Pixar isn’t the world’s greatest animation studio. From their inception with Toy Story in 1995 to last year’s The Good Dinosaur, here’s a run-down of the good and the bad, […]
The Flickering Myth Review Podcast – Oscars 2016 Special
The Flickering Myth Podcast walks the red carpet to look back at last night’s bash… Scott J. Davis and special guest Kat Kourbeti look back at the 88th Annual Academy Awards, which took place on Sunday in Hollywood, hosted by Chris Rock. Spotlight walked away with Best Picture, while Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander […]
Inside Out dominates the Annie Awards 2016, check out a full list of winners here
The 43rd annual Annie Awards took place last night, celebrating the very best in movie, TV and video game animation from 2015. Pixar’s Inside Out was the big winner, with the film named Best Animated Feature as well as collecting a further nine awards, while The Good Dinosaur also brought home another award to top […]
And the winners of the 73rd Golden Globes are…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association never ceases to surprise and go against the grain. Only a select few categories in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field. That’s not to say anything here isn’t well deserved. Except for The Martian anyway, which was […]
Flickering Myth Podcast #08 – Most Anticipated Movies of 2016, Top 10 Films of 2015 and the Quentin Tarantino interview
In the first Flickering Myth Podcast episode of 2016, Oli counts down the Top 10 Movies of 2015 and Top 5 Most Anticipated Films of 2016 according to our writers’ polls. Also, Scott Davis exclusively talks to Quentin Tarantino about his new movie The Hateful Eight and “taking a last stand for cinema”. Listen to the podcast below […]