Tom Jolliffe looks at the art of making visually beautiful films… Cinema is a visual medium. A way to tell stories through a combination of visuals and sound, through script and direction, and the manipulation of the editing. Some films are emotionally crushing, involving, gripping. Some are audio-visual sensory overloads. Directors can opt for a […]
Spielberg v Streaming Services – Even The Best In The Business Can Get It Wrong
The celebrated filmmaker’s crusade against streaming service film’s recognition at the Oscars seems to challenge the progressive strides being taken in the industry. As a measure of how exciting my life is, I often ponder at length over how someone like Steven Spielberg spends his evenings. In my mind, I envisage him splashing around with […]
When Will the Oscars Get It Right?
Olly Krizan on the Oscars… While we’re warming our winter woes with the glitz and glamour of awards season, The Academy are having yet another nightmare of a year. This time around they’ve decided to get ahead of the game by airing these issues before the ceremony has even taken place. From what I can […]
Road to the Oscars 2019 – Can Roma win Best Picture?
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, it’s the arguable frontrunner as Alfonso Cuaron delves into his own past with Roma… Films like Roma don’t win Oscars. No movie filmed in a language other […]
Ranking 2019’s Best Picture Nominees
Liam Hoofe ranks this year’s Best Picture nominees… The 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony is set to take place this Sunday night and yet again, it’s been quite a wild ride for The Academy in the build-up to the ceremony this year. Not only have they had to contend with losing the show’s originally planned […]
BAFTAs 2019: Roma won the top prize, but Olivia Colman won our hearts
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 […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Alfonso Cuaron
In our latest director beginner’s guide, Tom Jolliffe looks at Alfonso Cuaron… Alfonso Cuaron may be a director you’re familiar with. He’s on something of a high right now having attained at hat-full of Oscar nominations for his latest film Roma. One of the Mexican masters (alongside Guillermo del Toro who took the Oscars by storm […]
Oscars 2019: Biggest snubs and surprises from the Academy Award nominations
Tom Beasley takes a dive into the Oscar nominations to spotlight the biggest snubs and surprises from today’s shortlists… Today, the final nominations for the Oscars 2019 were announced over in Hollywood, sending a mixture of joy and rage rattling through the film world. As usual, most of the major players were pretty easy to […]
Oscars 2019: Predicting the nominations in the main categories
Tom Beasley has a shot at predicting which films will make their way on to the Academy’s shortlists in the main Oscars 2019 categories… Last year, I tried to predict the nominees in all of the main Oscar categories. There were some shortlists I got almost bang on, but others for which I was way […]
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 […]
