On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Billie Rogan comes on to discuss Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age drama Lady Bird… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Billie Rogan stops by to reveal […]
Doubling Up: Five Great Female Movie Partnerships
Freda Cooper with five great female movie partnerships… After last week’s classic pairing of Laurel and Hardy (aka Steve Coogan and John C Reilly) in Stan & Ollie comes one of the most exciting on-screen double acts for some time. The prospect of Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I and Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen Of […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2018
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2018… As 2018 draws to a close, the writers here at Flickering Myth have been looking back over another twelve months of cinema to vote on our favourite movies of the year. As always, our writers have shared their personal top ten picks, which we’ve […]
Why Do Blockbusters Rarely Win Awards?
Neil Calloway looks at the divide between box office hits and critical acclaim… Seven. That’s the number of Oscar nominations that the top ten films at last year’s worldwide box office received. It might not seem like a bad haul, but when you realise they’re all technical nominations and four of them are for Star […]
Movie Review – Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird, 2017. Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton, Andy Buckley, Daniel Zovatto, Jordan Rodrigues, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California. There’s a dirtied, […]
Maze Runner sprints to the top of the US box office as The Greatest Showman holds its note
Fox’s The Maze Runner: Death Cure (read our review here) finished atop the US box office, with a 25% decline compared to its predecessor, understandable considering standard franchise fatigue, and the fact that filming was delayed when Dylan O’Brien suffered an on-set injury. One of the only breakout YA adaptations amongst a slew of films that […]
Oscars 2018: Predicting the nominations in the main categories
Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards… The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards season race. These nominations are the holy grail of the awards season calendar and being chosen will ensure the great and […]
Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele among nominees for 2018 DGA Awards
In the midst of the furore around all-male director shortlists for the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, the Directors Guild of America has given Greta Gerwig a spot on their list of nominees, for her work on coming-of-age comedy Lady Bird. Gerwig will compete against Globe winner Guillermo del Toro, who is nominated for romantic […]
Golden Globes 2018: Winners and Losers from the World of Film
Tom Beasley takes a look at the winners and losers from the Golden Globes, and what that means for the Oscars… Hollywood’s biggest and brightest starts packed into the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night for the 75th Golden Globes. The spectre of movie industry harassment loomed large over proceedings, whether it was in the stars […]
Movie Review – Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird, 2017. Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Beanie Feldstein, and Tracy Letts. SYNOPSIS: In the early 2000s, an artistically-inclined seventeen year-old comes of age in Sacramento, California. Lady Bird tells the story of Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a high school rebel who cannot wait […]
