Blackhat, 2015. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang, Viola Davis, Manny Montana, Wang Leehom and William Mapother. SYNOPSIS: A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cyber crime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. There’s a clash at the heart of Michael Mann’s […]
Second Opinion – The Wedding Ringer (2015)
The Wedding Ringer, 2015. Directed by Jeremy Garelick. Starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Olivia Thirlby, Ken Howard, Alan Ritchson, Dan Gill, Jorge Garcia, and Cloris Leachman. SYNOPSIS: Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for […]
Second Opinion – Project Almanac (2015)
Project Almanac, 2015 Directed by Dean Israelite Starring Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Virginia Gardner and Amy Landecker SYNOPSIS: A found-footage teen-flick, whereby our college-applying scientists find a clock-rewinding contraption in the basement… Creating a time travel movie that doesn’t have any leaky gaps in its plot is a very tricky thing to pull off. Similarly creating a […]
Movie Review – Predestination (2015)
Predestination, 2015. Directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Christopher Kirby and Christopher Sommers. SYNOPSIS: A ‘Temporal Agent’ who travels through time to prevent major crimes attempts to capture the infamous ‘Fizzle Bomber’, who has thus-far eluded him, on his final assignment. Remember the first time you saw […]
Arrow Season 3 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Return’
Jessie Robertson reviews the fourteenth episode of Arrow season 3… “How to prepare your daughter for Life….by unleashing a psychotic murderer after her on an Island,” by Malcolm Merlyn. New Age Parenting. Go figure. Tonight’s episode was a strange one as it seemed the flashbacks were the meat of the story, certainly getting a least […]
Movie Review – The Voices (2015)
The Voices, 2015. Directed by Marjane Satrapi. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver. SYNOPSIS: Schizophrenic factory worker Jerry must decide whether to follow the advice of his psychotic, blood thirsty cat, Mr Whiskers or his good-hearted, loving dog Bosco, as he struggles to keep taking his meds and find some measure […]
Better Call Saul Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Nacho’
Jackson Ball reviews the third episode of Better Call Saul… It’s been a week since Better Call Saul’s two-episode season premiere, and we’ve all had time to digest what we’ve seen from the much anticipated Breaking Bad prequel. There’s been many similarities drawn between the series and its predecessor, as well as some vital differences, […]
Comic Book Review – Burning Fields #2
Zeb Larson reviews Burning Fields #2… As new murders arise across the oilfields of Iraq and their surrounding cities, strange alliances form: Dana and Aban delve into one another’s pasts in the search for the killers, while Verge, the private military company that blocks Dana and Aban at every turn, makes its own inroads on […]
Best Picture 1991 – The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
To celebrate the Oscars this weekend, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at some of the previous Best Picture winners. First up, Helen Murdoch looks back at 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs… Winner of the Big 5 Academy Awards – Actor, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Director and Picture – The Silence of the Lambs […]
The Flash Season 1 Episode 14 – ‘Fallout’
Jessie Robertson reviews the fourteenth episode of The Flash… Literal fallout as the episode began. But, the experiment worked. This episode was all about the two elements fused together to make Firestorm, Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein. Firestorm is a very difficult character to bring to screen, because it’s two distinct characters, and how do […]
