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The Return of the Moderate Budget Action Movie?

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Could 2024 bring about a surge in moderately budgeted big-screen action movies?  It’s been a talking point for some years now. The big studios, particularly Disney and their innumerable arms, have been preoccupied with huge blockbusters as well as gargantuan budget shows. The low-budget indie films up to about ten million bucks make up a […]

10 Stunning Performances Outrageously Snubbed by the Oscars

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It’s the Oscars, so it’s time to look at ten stunning performances the Academy outrageously snubbed… Oscar season is an exciting time of the year. It’s fair to say that every year, for one reason or another, contentious decisions are made as well as glaring omissions. The desperation from some actors to snag an Oscar […]

Fantastical, Flawed and Madcap: 80s British Horror Cinema

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We take a look back at the curious case of 80s British Horror – an era of odd fusions, oddities, indulgent auteurs and flawed cult favourites… Think of those iconic periods in horror around the world. German expressionist horror of the 1920s and 30s, the Giallo boom of the 60s and 70s, British hammer horror […]

10 Essential Films From 1994

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It’s time to go back 30 years to look at 10 essential movies from 1994… If you’re my age then 1994 feels like it was about 10 years ago. Sadly, it was actually 30 years ago and the cinematic offerings of the year were hugely impressive. Whether it was ruminations on life being like a […]

Has the Mainstream Audience Outgrown Comic Book Movies?

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Has the mainstream audience outgrown comic book movies? We ponder whether comic book movies have enough audience to warrant such big budgets now… Remember a time when short of being one of the big two of Batman or Superman, comic book adaptations were seen as a sure-fire money pit? We saw failed Punisher, Phantom, Shadow […]

10 Actors Quentin Tarantino Needs In His Final Film

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With Tom Cruise rumoured to be in line to make his Quentin Tarantino debut in the filmmaker’s final film The Movie Critic, who else should pop their Tarantino cherry? Here’s Tom Jolliffe with ten suggestions… When it comes to master filmmakers the one thing you can rely on is the eclectic range of talent filling […]

Carl Weathers in Action

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An icon for generations of film fans, Carl Weathers might have left this mortal coil but his legacy as an action star won’t be forgotten… Film and TV fans worldwide were saddened by the news of Carl Weathers’ death on February 1st, 2024. To many, their first experience of Weathers’ larger-than-life presence and charisma was […]

The Cult Film of 2023: Saltburn

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It’s time to look back at the dazzling, stylish and shocking cult film Saltburn (spoilers follow)… 2023 was a pretty interesting year in cinema. It may just be that we saw a turning point in audience tastes, with comic book films and franchise sequels mostly underperforming, whilst the grand success of Barbenheimer showed two things. […]

Ten Action Sequels The World Needs To See

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Originality be damned in Hollywood, it’s time to look at some action sequels the world needs… Recently it was announced that Sly Stallone would be donning his climbing gear and hitting the mountains for a Cliffhanger sequel. That sent the Flickering Myth office into a frenzy of ideas… actually, it was just me in a […]

Strange Days: A Must Watch New Year’s Movie

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Tom Jolliffe revisits the cult classic Strange Days, a great New Year-set film that was way ahead of its time… A number of films throughout the 90’s dealt with the idea of virtual reality. For better and worse, this became a popular sci-fi trend through the decade. The Lawnmower Man really kick-started the trend, which […]