Tom Jolliffe looks at the finest in ambiguous cinema, and asks ‘how do you pull it off?’… Often in the law books of screenwriting there’s a section which might tell the studious aspiring writer that a film must have clarity. Plot threads must lead to resolution. Each act and your central character arcs should be […]
Trailer for FrightFest horror Stalker starring Sophie Skelton, Stuart Brennan and Bret Hart
Following its world premiere at FrightFest last month, Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment is set to bring the psychological horror Stalker to DVD and Digital in the UK this August. Directed by Steve Johnson, the film centres on Rose (Sophie Skelton), a young actress who finds herself trapped in an elevator in her empty hotel with a […]
Exclusive Interview – Producer Jonathan Sothcott talks Nemesis, career beginnings, favourite films and more
British producer Jonathan Sothcott stops by Flickering Myth to chat about his latest film Nemesis and more… For well over a decade, Jonathan Sothcott has been at the forefront of the British intendant film scene. A number of successful films, such as Dead Cert, Stalker and Devil’s Playground would be further cemented with a couple […]
Mind-Bending Cerebral Sci-Fi Movies That You Must Watch
Marvelous Videos presents cerebral science fiction to scramble your brain…. In his review of Ex_Machina, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz remarked that real sci-fi was about ideas, and we can’t help but mostly agree. Science fiction, at its core, is about challenging our perceptions of the real world- expanding our horizons if you will. Some auteurs […]
Has Film Declined In The 21st Century?
Tom Jolliffe on whether standards in film have dropped this century… I’ve made passing reference to it before, but the tail end of the year always brings time for reflection, and I’ve often bemoaned the decline in important cinema being made in recent years. This is the stuff of miserable old git conversations in the […]
Flickering Myth Film Class: Taking time to immerse your audience
In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at immersing the audience… In the ever changing landscape of film, it seems in the modern age of digital film-making, modern editing programmes with limitless options and changing temperament (seemingly) with film audiences, that we’ve seen an inherent shift from film-makers devoting time […]
