No one can deny the power of the first three Toy Story, even to the point where some will flat-out ignore Disney/Pixar’s fourth outing with the franchise. One of those people? Quentin Tarantino. During a cameo on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, the iconic writer & director mentioned the trilogy during his conversation on the […]
Revisiting the Cinematic Landscape of 1999
Tom Jolliffe travels back in time 20 years to 1999 to look over the cinematic landscape… The millennium suddenly draws in. The century is in its final year. Cinema has a pre-occupation with apocalypse and disorder, chaos, among other things. It’s 1999. 20 years ago. That’s pretty frightening, but regardless, hold my hand, lets go […]
Disney cuts casting couch joke from Toy Story 2
In the wake of the #MeToo movement ad the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against some of the most powerful figures in Hollywood, Disney has decided to cut a casting couch gag from the Toy Story 2 “blooper” reel for the latest home entertainment re-release of the beloved animated sequel. The scene in question sees […]
Beast Kingdom unveils new Disney PREVIEWS exclusives from Toy Story, Lilo & Stitch, Chip ‘n’ Dale and Donald Duck
Beast Kingdom and Diamond Comic Distributors have unveiled a new line of Disney PREVIEWS exclusive statues which which go on sale February 2020 and include Hamm from Toy Story 2, adorable alien Stitch from Lilo & Stitch, Chip ‘n’ Dale in their treehouse, and Donald Duck with his very own boat; check them out below… […]
Leaked promo art for Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2
2019 is shaping up to be a huge year for Disney, and tucked in alongside the superhero epics and animated remakes are two hotly-anticipated – and likely billion dollar-grossing – animated sequels in Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2. Thanks to Instagram, we’ve got a look at a couple of pieces of leaked promo artwork […]
Ranking the Pixar Movies from Worst to Best
George Chrysostomou ranks the Pixar movies from worst to best… Coinciding with the release of Incredibles 2, we at Flickering Myth thought it was about time to do a full ranking of every Pixar film. To create this list, not only is this a culmination of my own opinions and other Flickering Myth writers, but also […]
Ranking The Pixar Sequels
Ahead of the release of Cars 3, Eric Bay-Andersen ranks Pixar’s sequels… When people hear ‘sequel’, they usually think ‘shameless cash-in’, and although Disney’s purchase of Pixar must surely have influenced the number of sequels the studio has produced in the last 20 years (six with at least two more on the way), Pixar’s reputation […]
Tom Hanks – A Retrospective
A Hologram For The King, directed by Tom Tykwer, is due for release on both Blu-ray and DVD come the 19th September 2016 from Icon Film Distribution. Based on the novel by Dave Eggers, Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, a man who has lost everything now finding himself desperate and directionless within a strange and foreign land, searching for […]
Ranking Pixar: From Worst to Best
Edward Gardiner ranks Pixar’s movies from worst to best… Studio Ghibli runs them close, and even Dreamworks can come out with some crackers, but it’s hard to argue that Pixar isn’t the world’s greatest animation studio. From their inception with Toy Story in 1995 to last year’s The Good Dinosaur, here’s a run-down of the good and the bad, […]
