Sade Green with the top ten best romances and rom-coms to watch this Valentine’s Day… Feeling all loved up this Valentine’s Day? Looking for the perfect romance to finish your day with a loved one? Well look no further because the writers at Flickering Myth have been voting on our absolute favourite romance and romantic-comedy […]
The Eclectic Range of Christopher Walken’s Career
Tom Jolliffe looks at the diverse mix within Christopher Walken’s career. An acclaimed actor in iconic classics, who has regularly crossed into B movies… In the 70’s, a number of icons were experiencing a boom. It was an era of almost unmatched creative revolution for American cinema. There was a distinct move to a cinema […]
The Films Quentin Tarantino Wrote But Didn’t Direct
Neil Calloway on films Quentin Tarantino scripted but didn’t get behind the camera for… Everyone knows Quentin Tarantino went from geeky video store clerk to geeky film director, but he didn’t just explode onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs (which, and this has been airbrushed out of history now, he developed at the Sundance Institute) […]
What to expect with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood… There is no doubting that in the last (nearly) three decades, Quentin Tarantino has been one of the best film-makers around. His back catalogue is rich, varied and impressive. If you’re asking me for rankings, then his first two, Reservoir Dogs and […]
In praise of Gary Oldman’s performance in True Romance
Sean Wilson looks back at one of the most memorable roles undertaken by the Darkest Hour star, Gary Oldman… On the eve of Darkest Hour, the critically acclaimed new Winston Churchill biopic, the headlines have all been shrieking one thing: isn’t Gary Oldman an extraordinarily versatile actor? Well, yes, but anyone who has followed Oldman’s […]
BFI Review – True Romance (1993)
True Romance, 1993 Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Michael Rapaport, James Gandolfini, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Val Kilmer and Brad Pitt. SYNOPSIS: Two lovers are on the run after killing a small-time pimp and stealing his drugs … “You’re so cool”. The three words Patricia Arquette’s […]