Subscribe on iTunes. Support Flickering Myth, buy a t-shirt. Email in your questions: oli@flickeringmyth.com Join Oli and Luke in this week’s Flickering Myth Podcast special, where they count down their favourite, and very different, Top 5 Movies of 2017 So Far… Subscribe for new episodes every Wednesday. Listen to the post on Acast, follow us on Stitcher or […]
Franchises Aren’t Killing Hollywood, Bad Movies Are
This week Neil Calloway wants Hollywood to stop blaming franchises for bad box office returns… Recently the Los Angeles Times reported that this summer’s US box office could be the lowest in a decade. This might seem like terrible news, but given that films are expected to earn $4 billion during the summer months it’s […]
Watch the Honest Trailer for La La Land
For the latest episode of Honest Trailers, Screen Junkies have cast their eye over director Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed, almost-Oscar-winning musical La La Land. La La Land, the 14x Oscar-nominated musical about passion, love – and ditching all of that nonsense as soon as your career takes off. Re-live this beautiful looking film that takes us through […]
The Week in Movies – Beauty and the Beast reviewed! New Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer, Oscar mix-ups and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including Beauty and the Beast reviews, a new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer, Oscar mix-ups and more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox every Sunday. […]
Why We Need Contrarians
Henry Bevan on why we need contrarians… Sometimes falling in love with a movie is like falling in love with a partner who isn’t right for you. At first, your love blinds you to the flaws. Then, when you break up, you say the meanest things. When things cool down you’ll find the truth: was […]
Zootopia parodies the Oscar nominees with spoof posters
With the 89th Academy Awards fast approaching, Disney’s Best Animated Feature contender Zootopia has parodied a selection of its fellow Oscar nominees with a series of amusing posters featuring Florence Foster Jenkins as ‘Fru Fru Foster Jenkins’, Hell or High Water as ‘Hell or High Otter’, Fantastic Beasts as ‘Fantastic Cheetahs and Where to Find Them’, La […]
Avengers: Infinity War first look, The Batman director, The BAFTAs and Danny Dyer as Doctor Who – Weekend News Roundup
Rounding up this weekend’s big news stories… WAR IS COMING With production now in full swing, Marvel decided to kick off the promotion for its hugely-anticipated superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War, releasing a first-look behind-the-scenes featurette from the first day of filming, complete with concept artwork, and on-set comments from Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), […]
Not The First Choice, But The Right Choice
This week, Neil Calloway can’t imagine anyone else in La La Land… There’s a genre of fiction known as alternative history, where writers speculate on “what ifs?” of history. You want to see what would happen if South African Neo-Nazis went back in time to intervene in the American Civil War? You got it. Aliens […]
The Week in Movies – La La Land leads Oscar nominations, new Star Wars title revealed and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including La La Land leading the Oscar nominations, the new Star Wars title being revealed and more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox every Sunday. The film world […]
Quality Isn’t Subjective. A Film Is Good Or It Is Not
Samuel Brace argues that quality isn’t subjective… Many things in life are up for debate. Many things can be interpreted and argued over. Everyone is different; everyone is a product of their own environment, dictated to by their personal tastes. Things like our favourite foods, favourite actors, favourite sports, books, music and yes, films, are […]