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54th Chicago International Film Festival Review – Green Book (2018)

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Green Book, 2018. Directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Don Stark, Sebastian Maniscalco, P.J. Byrne, Brian Stepanek, Iqbal Theba, Tom Virtue, Paul Sloan, and Nick Vallelonga. SYNOPSIS: A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. Early […]

Blu-ray Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018. Directed by Bob Perischetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman. Featuring the voice talents of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, Liev Schreiber, Chris Pine. SYNOPSIS: While everyone eagerly awaited Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, Sony […]

Exclusive Interview: Director Barry Jenkins on Moonlight

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Freda Cooper talks to director Barry Jenkins about the Oscar-nominated Moonlight… A portrait of African American life and a meditation on family, friendship and identity, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man as he grows up in a rough part of Miami.  For its director, Barry Jenkins, it was also a personal project, […]

Wesley Snipes is happy for Mahershala Ali and his casting as Blade

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After portraying Blade between 1998 and 2004 in a trilogy of movies, Wesley Snipes has discussed his thoughts on Mahershala Ali taking on the role in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe title. Announced at San Diego Comic-Con, Ali was revealed to be portraying the Daywalker in the further expansion of the MCU by Marvel Studio’s President Kevin […]

Rosa Salazar wants to continue playing Alita

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Now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital, Alita: Battle Angel was one of the final 20th Century Fox’s theatrical releases before the Disney-Fox merger. Making over $400 million worldwide, the film was far from a box office disaster given the film’s $200 million budget, and even though, the director Robert Rodriquez left the ending open […]

Exclusive Interview – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directors Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman on Oscars, sequels and Tom Holland

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Tom Beasley chats to two of the directors of everyone’s new favourite superhero movie – last year’s Oscar-winning animation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse… Nobody was expecting Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to be their favourite superhero movie of 2018. In a year that gave the world everything from Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther through to […]

Road to the Oscars 2019 – Can Green Book win Best Picture?

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In the week before the 91st Academy Awards are handed out, Tom Beasley takes a look at each Best Picture nominee and its chances of Oscars victory. Next, a film that has had an up and down campaign – Peter Farrelly’s Green Book… The unthinkable has happened. Peter Farrelly – a man best known for […]

BAFTAs 2019: Roma won the top prize, but Olivia Colman won our hearts

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Tom Beasley was at the glamorous BAFTAs ceremony last night on behalf of Flickering Myth. Here, he shares his take on the evening, the awards and that excruciating opening monologue… There were a lot of winners at the BAFTAs last night. Rami Malek cemented himself as the Best Actor frontrunner for the Oscars, The Favourite […]

Second Opinion – Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

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Alita: Battle Angel, 2019. Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring Rosa Salazar, Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Rodriguez, Ed Skrein, Christoph Waltz, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson, and Edward Norton. SYNOPSIS: An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. Robert Rodriguez’s […]