Only the Brave, 2017. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, and Jennifer Connelly. SYNOPSIS: The true story of a team of elite firefighters – the Granite Mountain Hotshots – who welcome a new recruit while tackling some of the fiercest wildfires in Arizona. The true […]
Movie Review – Trespass Against Us (2017)
Trespass Against Us, 2017. Directed by Adam Smith Starring Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear, and Killian Scott. SYNOPSIS: An insight into the strained relationship between a son and father from an Irish travelling community. The Cutler family is comprised of strong morals, loyalty and a spirited bond, something the audience […]
Movie Review – The Founder (2016)
The Founder, 2016. Directed by John Lee Hancock Starring Michael Keaton, Linda Cardellini, Nick Offerman, and John Carroll Lynch. SYNOPSIS: An intimate look into the makings of one of the world’s greatest businesses – McDonald’s – and the power-hungry man that orchestrated it all. Ray Croc is a failing businessman with a burning desire to […]
Taboo Series 1 Episode 1 Review
Sam Narr reviews the first episode of Taboo… After various teasers and building anticipation, the first episode of Taboo aired last night on BBC one. The huge draw to the period drama will no doubt be Tom Hardy, in what feels like a homecoming from Hollywood. Taboo, set in 1814, follows the return of James […]
Movie Review – Bad Santa 2 (2016)
Bad Santa 2, 2016. Directed by Mark Waters. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Brett Kelly, Tony Cox, Kathy Bates and Christina Hendricks. SYNOPSIS: A continuation, following a crooked and vulgar safe-cracker who uses Christmas, for the second time, as the basis of his plots to rob money whilst encountering issues from his past whilst battling alcoholism. […]
Movie Review – Spaghettiman (2016)
Spaghettiman, 2016. Directed by Mark Potts. Starring Benjamin Crutcher, Winston Carter, Brand Rackley, Joe LoCicero and Leigh Wulff. SYNOPSIS: A scruffy, unkempt and lazy man eats a bowl of spaghetti that’s gone through some form of radiation exposure in his microwave. Forcing upon him superpowers, superpowers that he refuses to use for good. The independent […]
The Man Creating Retro VHS Covers For Your Favourite Films
Flickering Myth caught up with the man creating retro VHS covers for your favourite films… The digital age is fantastic. High-speed broadband, data burning and e-mail has revolutionised the film industry dramatically. Now, trailers can appear on a Twitter post, full-length films can be downloaded in a matter of minutes and interviews of our favourite […]
Movie Review – Almost Holy (2015)
Almost Holy, 2015. Directed by Steve Hoover. Starring Gennadiy Mokhnenko. SYNOPSIS: The real-life account of a Ukrainian Pastor and moral enforcer, Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who takes it upon himself to single-handedly rehabilitate child drug users in Mariupol where violence and poverty is rife. Almost Holy is a documentary that follows Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who calls himself Pastor Crocodile […]
Movie Review – The Violators (2015)
The Violators, 2015. Directed by Helen Walsh. Starring Lauren McQueen, Brogan Ellis and Stephen Lord. SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional girl becomes tangled in a series of events after becoming involved with a local womanising hard-man in the poverty-stricken suburbs of Birkenhead. Helen Walsh is no stranger to the urban dystopia in and around the areas of […]
