Casey Chong with seven great horror films from NEON that you need to see… Indie film production and distributor NEON has offered audiences a diverse range of genres since launching with the 2017 sci-fi comedy Colossal starring Anne Hathaway. Since then, the New York-based film company has established its reputation for delivering high-quality films such […]
Second Generation Directors: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps… Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of […]
The Art of Giving Film Recommendations
Tom Jolliffe on the art of giving film recommendations… You’ve got to see The Matrix! You have to! It’s 1999, and there’s a distinct transition between the recommender of The Matrix as being ahead of the curve, to a couple of months down the line when such a recommendation is lost in a cacophony of […]
Great Films From the Past Four Years That You Might Have Missed
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 15 recent films which you might have missed… The last few years seems to have bought an upturn in interesting and engaging cinema. Even as conventional blockbuster fare, which can feel interchangeable, rules the roost, indie and world cinema is beginning to find a place and more acknowledgement. At the […]
Possessor (2020) – October Horrors 2022
Possessor, 2020. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh. SYNOPSIS: An assassin who performs her job by possessing the bodies of others, finds herself struggling for control over the body of her current host. Identity. We know who we are, how our minds […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2020
The Flickering Myth writing team share our top ten movies of 2020… And so we come to the end of 2020 – a year which I’m sure virtually everyone is glad to see behind us. The past twelve months been a hugely difficult and trying time for all, what with events that have engulfed the […]
The Best Independent Films of 2020
EJ Moreno on the best independent films of the year… In a year where cinemas have been closed worldwide, it has been up to independent films to give hungry moviegoers exactly what they wanted. That focus on films in small theatrical runs or straight to video-on-demand platforms really gave way for some wonderful projects to […]
The Best Horror Movies of 2020
Hasitha Fernando on the best horror movies of 2020… The COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm, affecting the lives of every man, woman and child from every walk of life. Arguably one of the industries which suffered the biggest crippling blow from it was the film industry. Theatre halls closed, tentpole releases were indefinitely […]
2020 in Horror: A Year of Shudder, Epic Debuts, Indie Darlings, and the return of Universal Monsters
EJ Moreno casts his eye back over the year in horror… The landscape of cinema was forever changed by 2020. From the global pandemic to streaming’s rapid growth, it seems like everything was rocked for better or worse. But something thrived in the rockiest of times, a genre that lives on the margin of indie […]
Movie Review – Possessor (2020)
Possessor, 2020. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Gabrielle Graham, Matthew Garlick, and Tuppence Middleton. SYNOPSIS: An assassin who uses brain implant technology to get her personality inside the body of others finds her preference for being in a different body is beginning to take over her […]
