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Al Pacino at 80: One of the all time greats

April 25, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of Al Pacino as he turns 80… Ready your best Al Pacino impression. We’ve all got them. Those usually tend to be Al at his explosive, unrestrained best. Maybe it’s one of several scenes in Heat, or something in his scenery chomping brilliance in Scent of A Woman. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Al Pacino, Cruising, dick tracy, Dog Day Afternoon, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heat, Hunters, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Panic In Needle Park, Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Serpico, The Godfather, The Godfather II, The Irishman

The Godfather with film critic Mark Searby | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #62

January 22, 2020 by Tom Beasley

The Godfather

On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Mark Searby discusses the mob classic The Godfather… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Mark Searby stops by to talk about the movie considered […]

Filed Under: Flickering Myth Podcast Network, Movies, The Pick of the Flicks, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Al Pacino, diane keaton, Flickering Myth Podcast Network, Francis Ford Coppola, James Caan, Mark Searby, Marlon Brando, Podcast, robert duvall, The Godfather, The Pick of the Flicks Podcast

When You Need To Watch A Film Twice

August 3, 2018 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at when you need to watch a film a second time to fully appreciate it… A couple of days ago one of my Flickering Myth brethren Neil Calloway wrote a piece about watching classic films for the first time and finding them boring. The piece certainly got a reaction, from no less […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Francis Ford Coppola, Only God Forgives, Stalker, The Conversation, The Godfather, The Matrix, Withnail

When Classics Turn Out To Be Boring

August 1, 2018 by Neil Calloway

Neil Calloway Fails To Watch Films He Has Been Told Are Great… I’ll start this by saying that I know this makes me a terrible person, I should be ashamed of myself and I need to immediately present myself at the nearest film re-education camp. I know all this, but I don’t care. The thing […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway Tagged With: Penda's Fen, The Godfather

Has Film Declined In The 21st Century?

December 17, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Iron Man, No Country for Old Men, Seven Samurai, Stalker, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, The Matrix, There Will be Blood, Thor: Ragnarok

HBO developing scripted behind-the-scenes Godfather movie

February 2, 2017 by Samuel Brace

The Godfather is universally recognised as one of the greatest films of all time, and now HBO Films are developing a movie focusing on its production. Revealed by Variety, the film entitled Francis & The Godfather will be a scripted affair that documents the making of the seminal 1973 mafia adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel. The movie will […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: Francis & The Godfather, HBO, The Godfather

Quality Isn’t Subjective. A Film Is Good Or It Is Not

January 28, 2017 by Samuel Brace

Samuel Brace argues that quality isn’t subjective… Many things in life are up for debate. Many things can be interpreted and argued over. Everyone is different; everyone is a product of their own environment, dictated to by their personal tastes. Things like our favourite foods, favourite actors, favourite sports, books, music and yes, films, are […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Samuel Brace Tagged With: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Gone with the Wind, la la land, The Godfather, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Shawshank Redemption, Transformers

The Films That Should Be TV Shows

October 4, 2015 by Neil Calloway

This week, Neil Calloway suggests some films that would work well as TV shows… With the new series of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. now underway, the Limitless TV show having just debuted in the US, and talk of a Game of Thrones movie being made (later denied). There’s even a TV show (the second, following a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway, Special Features, Television Tagged With: Alien, Colonial Marines, Ghostbusters, James Bond, Limitless, Star Wars, The Godfather

BBC Culture curates 100 best American films, courtesy of 62 international film critics

July 22, 2015 by Scott J. Davis

BBC Culture has this week unveiled a new list of the top 100 American films, as voted for by a pool of international film critics from across the globe. The format of the poll was that any film that would make the list had to have recieved funding from a US source, and the directors […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Scott Davis Tagged With: The Godfather

Five Films You Can Sneak In At Christmas

December 20, 2014 by Simon Columb

Simon Columb with five films you can sneak in at Christmas… Hurrah! The holidays are upon us! The snow is (not) falling and the mulled wine is (expensively) available! What a joyous time! Ring the bells! Set time aside and join in the age-old tradition of Christmas film-watching around the toasty fire. Of course your […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Simon Columb Tagged With: about a boy, Bridget Jones's Diary, Lethal Weapon, The Godfather, The World Is Not Enough

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