Originality be damned in Hollywood, it’s time to look at some action sequels the world needs… Recently it was announced that Sly Stallone would be donning his climbing gear and hitting the mountains for a Cliffhanger sequel. That sent the Flickering Myth office into a frenzy of ideas… actually, it was just me in a […]
Perfect Non-Horror Movies for Halloween Viewing
We take a look at some non-horror films that will still creep you out, disturb you or deliver a nightmarish scenario… It’s almost Halloween and so the perfect time to dive into some horror. The genre sees a perfect boost during Halloween season but a film doesn’t need to belong to the horror genre to […]
The Overlooked and Under-Appreciated – Demolition Man
Tom Jolliffe kicks off a new series looking at the overlooked and under-appreciated by revisiting the 1993 action classic Demolition Man… I found myself thinking recently about films that have been repressed to the dark recesses of forgotten cinema. The sort of films where you find yourself snapping a finger and exclaiming “oh yeah…I remember […]
Movie Review – Bullet Train (2022)
Bullet Train, 2022. Directed by David Leitch. Starring Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Zazie Beetz, Bad Bunny, Andrew Koji, Michael Shannon, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sandra Bullock, and Logan Lerman. SYNOPSIS: Five assassins aboard a fast-moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common. Aboard the titular bullet train (a high-speed […]
Brad Pitt suffers from Biblical bad luck in the action-packed new trailer for Bullet Train
Bullet Train might have had its release date arrival shunted around a few times recently, but at least that gives Sony Pictures the opportunity to market the hell out of the David Leitch directed action film, including this non-stop new trailer that the studio has just dropped. Based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by best-selling […]
New poster for Brad Pitt-led action thriller Bullet Train
Ahead of its August release, another poster has been released for director David Leitch’s Bullet Train which assembles the star-studded cast of the Brad Pitt-led action thriller; take a look here… Based on the novel “Maria Beetle” by Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train stars Pitt as Ladybug, an assassin who boards a bullet train and encounters […]
Movie Review – The Lost City (2022)
The Lost City, 2022. Directed by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee Starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Brad Pitt, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Patti Harrison, Oscar Nunez, Raymond Lee, Thomas Forbes-Johnson, and Héctor Aníbal. SYNOPSIS: A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that […]
None More Nineties: Why Speed is the ultimate 90s action film
Robb Sheppard on the ultimate 90s action movie, Speed… The 1990s witnessed a changing of the guard when it came to action movies. Speed crashed into 1994 and went from being “that bus movie” to one of the decade’s finest straight-up action films. Alongside the gloriously OTT Con Air, the far-fetched Face/Off, and Michael Bay’s […]
Movie Review – Gravity (2013)
Gravity, 2013. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. SYNOPSIS: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. When the trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity hit the Internet earlier this year, it sparked a huge amount of interest from movie goers […]
Movie Review – Our Brand is Crisis (2015)
Our Brand is Crisis, 2015. Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, Zoe Kazan, and Reynaldo Pacheco. SYNOPSIS: An American woman, well-versed in political campaigns, is sent to the war-torn lands of South America to help install a new leader but is […]
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