The Good Boy (a.k.a. Heel), 2025. Directed by Jan Komasa Starring Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon, Kit Rakusen. SYNOPSIS: Nineteen-year-old Tommy lives an unruly life of criminality until he is kidnapped by a stranger. He soon finds himself trapped in a dysfunctional family dynamic, where he is forced to change his behaviour to become […]
Movie Review – Heel (2025)
Heel (a.k.a. The Good Boy), 2025. Directed by Jan Komasa. Starring Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon, Kit Rakusen, Austin Haynes, Callum Booth-Ford, Monika Frajczyk, and Savannah Steyn. SYNOPSIS: A 19-year-old criminal, Tommy, is kidnapped and forced into a rehabilitation process by a dysfunctional couple, Chris and Kathryn, who try to make him a “good […]
Exclusive Interview – Heel’s Jan Komasa, Anson Boon and Kit Rakusen
EJ Moreno sits down with the director and stars of Heel (a.k.a. The Good Boy)… Heel has a powerhouse filmmaker bringing great work out of his actors, and they all join Flickering Myth for an in-depth conversation. Director Jan Komasa dives into the film’s complex tone and what he wants viewers to take away from […]
Movie Review – Consecration (2023)
Consecration, 2023. Directed by Christopher Smith. Starring Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Thoren Ferguson, Will Keen, Janet Suzman, Ian Pirie, Steffan Cennydd, Angela White, Kit Rakusen, Eilidh Fisher, and Jolade Obasola. SYNOPSIS: After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church’s […]
Movie Review – Golda (2023)
Golda, 2023. Directed by Guy Nattiv. Starring Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin, Lior Ashkenazi, Ellie Piercy, Ed Stoppard, Rotem Keinan, Dvir Benedek, Dominic Mafham, Kit Rakusen, Emma Davies, Mark Fleischmann, Daniel Ben Zenou, Muneesh Sharma, Sara Matin, Sam Shoubber, Zed Josef, Henry Goodman, Rami Heuberger, and Ben Caplan. SYNOPSIS: Focuses on the intensely dramatic […]
Helen Mirren is Israel’s first female Prime Minister in the trailer for historical biopic Golda
Throughout her career Academy Award winner Helen Mirren has played many historical figures, from Elizabeth I through to Ayn Rand, and now she’s back in the biopic business again in the role of Golda Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister. Directed by Oscar-winning Guy Nattiv (Skin), from a script by Nicholas Martin (Florence Foster Jenkins), […]
