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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Ten Best Animated Films of the 2010s
Kate Harrold shares her picks of the best animated films of the 2010s… The past decade has been a breakthrough for animated film. Toy Story (1995) may have been the first feature-length computer animated film, but animation studios of the 2010s have gone on to break even more unimaginable feats. The genre seems to have […]
Xbox Games with Gold for December 2019 revealed
Another year of free games has come and gone in the blink of an eye but this December is one that Gold subscribers don’t want to blink and miss. This month brings an assortment of robots, genetically engineered dinos, toys that come to life and vampires; what more could you ask for this December? Kicking […]
Funko’s San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Disney Pop! Vinyls revealed
Promotional images have been released for Funko’s Disney-themed San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Pop! vinyl figures which includes Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a 2-pack Taran & Horned King from The Black Cauldron, a young Carl & Ellie 2-pack from Up, a Pop! Rides Moana & Pua on a boat, and Chuckles & Mr. […]
Blu-ray Review – Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3
Brad Cook reviews Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3… SYNOPSIS: Pixar has scooped up the shorts they’ve released since 2012 for a new Blu-ray release called Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3. They’ve included 13 short films – a mix of theatrical releases and shorts issued elsewhere – along with a pair of brief featurettes […]
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 […]
Going Against the Critical Grain: When Expressing An Opinion Takes Bravery
Sean Wilson explores the difficulties writers face when their opinion flies in the face of the popular consensus… Film journalists such as myself frequently get slammed for daring to criticise a movie we hated: we didn’t make it, we had no idea of the stress involved in organising a small army of cast and technicians […]
