Murray Ferguson looks a ten Golden Age Hollywood stars and their modern successors… Awards season is approaching, meaning endless discussions of which performances deserve to be rewarded and who has been snubbed. This means it is as good a time as any to celebrate some of the best talent to emerge from Hollywood. Different filmmaking […]
Not Another James Dean Movie!? | Flickering Myth Podcast Mini
In this extract from The Flickering Myth Podcast, Allen Christian, EJ Moreno and Tori Brazier discuss the news that screen icon James Dean is to be resurrected via the magic of CGI for a key supporting role in a new Vietnam War drama entitled Finding Jack. You can listen to their thoughts in the video […]
James Dean 2020 | The Flickering Myth Podcast #125
Listen to the latest episode of The Flickering Myth Podcast… Allen, Tori, and EJ discuss the movies they’ve seen recently, including Terminator: Dark Fate, The King, and Honey Boy, the current box office defeat of Doctor Sleep at the hands of Midway, Joker becoming the most profitable comic book film of all time, and of […]
Can we please stop the de-aging and CGI resurrection fascination?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the current fascination with de-aging and digital resurrections… There have been plenty of annoying movie trends in Hollywood over the years. They tend to come and go. 3D was a novelty that didn’t quite work in the 80’s, which was more recently revolutionised by James Cameron (after another brief period of […]
Chris Evans isn’t happy about James Dean being brought back through CGI, calls decision “shameful”
Chris Evans, star of Avengers: Endgame, says that recreating James Dean in CGI for a new film is “awful” and “shameful”. This week we heard the bizarre news that the family of acting icon James Dean has given permission to use the deceased legend’s likeness for a new film that will act as the fourth […]
James Dean is being recreated with CGI for Vietnam War drama Finding Jack
James Dean is set to return to the big screen some 64 years after his untimely death, with Magic City Films announcing that it has “cast” a CGI recreation of the screen icon for the upcoming Vietnam War drama Finding Jack. Finding Jack is being directed by Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, who have secured […]
Blu-ray Review – Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Fixed Bayonets!, 1951. Directed by Samuel Fuller. Starring Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea, Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier and James Dean. SYNOPSIS: The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno’s superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility. Here’s a […]
James Dean biopic Life receives its first trailer
Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson star in the first trailer for the upcoming James Dean biopic Life. In the film, DeHaan (Chronicle) portrays the iconic actor, who became famous for his roles in such films as East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant during the 1950s. Dean passed away at the age of 24 […]