November is a good time for noir cinema, and the 90s were full of great and underseen gems; Flickering Myth’s Tom Jolliffe presents a selection of ten you need to see… Dark tales with morally obtuse protagonists, criminal plots, dripping in shadowy aesthetics and neglected corners of the towns or cities they’re set. Film noir […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Limey (1999)
The Limey, 1999. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, and Peter Fonda. SYNOPSIS: Steven Soderbergh’s minor classic The Limey arrives on 4K courtesy of Lionsgate, which included the film on Blu-ray and tossed in a code for a digital copy too. The extras are sparse and were […]
A Turn of the Century Cockney Gangster Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe double bills two cockney gangster films from the turn of the century in The Limey and Sexy Beast… Toward the end of the last century, leading into the new one, the British gangster film really seemed to take off again. We saw the emergence of a number of significant exponents of the genre, […]
