We take a look at the cinematic offerings of 2015 with ten must-see modern classics from ten years ago… The last few years have seen a nice upswing in the amount of creatively ambitious and interesting auteur indie films. Sure, the tentpole market has been a tad dour, but the rise of enthralling indie cinema […]
Sicario 3 to see the return of Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro
Sicario took the film world by storm in 2015, cementing the careers of the filmmakers behind it – director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan – and getting high praise for its cast. Now as Sicario 3 nears, we’ve got confirmation of how much this will feel like the original. Speaking to Collider, producers Molly […]
Sicario producers reveal a third Benicio Del Toro-headlined installment is “very close”
Black Label Media, the team behind Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado, have revealed that a Benicio Del Toro-headlined Sicario 3 is “very close”. The producing team, that is made up of sisters Molly and Rachel Smith and twin brothers Trent and Thad Luckinbill, were doing the press rounds for their Netflix thriller Reptile […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2015
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2015… As 2015 draws to a close, the writing team here at Flickering Myth have been voting on our favourite movies from the past twelve months. As always, each of our writers produces their own individual list, which we then use to calculate our overall […]
Hell or High Water TV adaptation in the works at FOX
It’s time to put on the dusted up denim and start growing a huge moustache following the announcement that a small-screen adaptation of the critically acclaimed 2016 sleeper-hit Hell or High Water is in development at FOX. Variety reports that none of the original talent – Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, or writer Taylor […]
Hotel Transylvania 2 holds onto top spot at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 23rd October to Sunday 25th October 2015… Sony Animation’s sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 held on to top spot at the UK box office for the second week in a row with £2.28 million – although its reign will be short-lived, with Spectre pulling […]
Movie Review – Sicario 2: Soldado (2018)
Sicario 2: Soldado, 2018. Directed by Stefano Sollima. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Catherine Keener, Isabela Moner, Elijah Rodriguez, and Matthew Modine. SYNOPSIS: The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the […]
Movie Review – Sicario 2: Soldado (2018)
Sicario 2: Soldado, 2018. Directed by Stefano Sollima. Starring Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Keener, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, and Matthew Modine. SYNOPSIS: Tasked with causing a turf war to destabilise the cartels, Matt Graver enlists brutal hitman Alejandro to assist him in kidnapping the daughter of a top cartel boss. “I’m gonna have […]
Sicario screenwriter has already mapped out a third movie
Next week sees the release of Sicario: Day of the Soldado, director Stefan Sollima’s (Gomorrah) follow up to Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed 2015 crime thriller Sicario, and – as producer Trent Luckinbill has revealed to Screen Rant – screenwriter Taylor Sheridan has already mapped out his plan for a third movie. “We were so thrilled that people […]
Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return in Sicario 2: Soldado trailer
Colombia Pictures have released the first trailer for the next installment of what they’re calling ‘the Sicario saga’. An indirect sequel to the Denis Villeneuve thriller, Sicario 2: Soldado, will see Benicio Del Toro’s Alejandro Gillick return, alongside Josh Brolin’s CIA Agent, Matt Graver. The pair finding themselves forming an uneasy co-dependency as the narcotics fuelled border […]
