Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… As we inch closer to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard, the next installment in The Essential Picard is another early episode from the series. ‘The Battle’, episode nine of the first season, delves into Picard’s past […]
Could dumbing down cinema threaten the legacy of timeless classics?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the current monopolisation of cinemas from Hollywood tentpoles, and whether timeless classics are at risk of being forgotten… The debate has raged throughout the last half year. Martin Scorsese was at the forefront. Cinemas are being overrun with Theme park rides. The cultural, dramatic and thematic impact with some of these are […]
BBC’s Dracula: The Life-Draining Effect of a Modern Twist
Kate Harrold on the BBC’s Dracula and the life-draining effect of its modern twist… When it was first announced that Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt would be taking on the latest adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, expectations were set high. The duo had already demonstrated their affinity for literary adaptations with the hugely successful Sherlock, […]
Silent Master: The Early Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Gary Collinson examines the silent film career of Alfred Hitchcock… “In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking’. When we tell a story in the cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise.” – Alfred […]
2019 in Review: Revisiting cinema’s biggest releases, news and talking points
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 2019 in film… Whilst we all come to terms with deleting and retyping 19 as 20 on documents, letters, invoices etc, lets make time to look back at 2019 and further confuse matters. As a year of cinema, 2019 has been interesting and with a usual mix of pop culture […]
Star Trek – The Essential Picard: Encounter at Farpoint
Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… As we ready ourselves for Patrick Stewart’s return as Jean-Luc Picard in the upcoming Star Trek: Picard, the latest television series in the Star Trek franchise, we’ll be discussing the most essential episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation that focuses […]
It’s Chinatown Jake: The Joys of the Unhappy Ending
Tom Jolliffe looks at the unhappy ending, and why they often have a more lasting impact (spoilers abound!)… Cinema has the power to move us. It can be an escape. The overriding formula has historically involved a happy resolution, because lets face it, after journeying through the crisis that the protagonist finds himself in, it […]
2020 in Horror: A Year of Shudder, Epic Debuts, Indie Darlings, and the return of Universal Monsters
EJ Moreno casts his eye back over the year in horror… The landscape of cinema was forever changed by 2020. From the global pandemic to streaming’s rapid growth, it seems like everything was rocked for better or worse. But something thrived in the rockiest of times, a genre that lives on the margin of indie […]
Ranking 2019’s 26 Biggest Horror Movies
EJ Moreno ranks 2019’s big horror releases… On the surface, it would seem that A24 and Blumhouse dominated horror this year with significant releases. But on closer inspection, 2019 has a wide variety of horror movies coming from all over the place. The genre is in such a great spot in 2019 with a little […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
The Flickering Myth writing team present our top ten movies of 2019… 2019. A year that has seen Disney dominating the multiplexes, the Mouse House setting records left, right and centre (not least Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, which dethroned 2009’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all-time). It’s seen legendary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese […]
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