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Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the first of a two-part feature… “I fell in love with directing at the age of twelve, at prep school in Highgate,” stated British filmmaker Tom Hooper who as a student came […]

Well, it’s that time of year again when we’re inundated with critics’ picks for the best films of the past twelve months and – after resisting the urge in 2009 – it’s about time we got in on the act here at Flickering Myth. Rather than presenting individual lists from our writing team we’ve taken […]

Tron: Legacy, 2010. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner and Olivia Wilde. SYNOPSIS: Sam (Garrett Hedlund), hasn’t seen or heard from his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) since his disappearance twenty years ago. Flynn’s old friend Alan (Bruce Boxleitner) contacts Sam after he receives a page from Flynn’s number at […]

With his latest film Fair Game released later this year, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Doug Liman in the second of a two part feature… read part one. “I’ve always been a huge action film fan and a couple of friends of mine were in marriage therapy,” explained screenwriter Simon Kingberg as to […]

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden), 2009. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. SYNOPSIS: When hacker Lisbeth Sanders (Noomi Rapace) goes on the run after being accused of three murders, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) sets out to track her down and uncover the truth. […]

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, 2009. Directed by Kevin Hamedani. Starring Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Russell Hodgkinson, Cooper Hopkins, Bill Johns, James Mesher and Cornelia Moore. SYNOPSIS: The idyllic island town of Port Gamble comes under attack by a horde of flesh-eating zombies, leaving a rag-tag band of rebel stereotypes to fight for their survival. […]

Let Me In, 2010. Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas and Cara Buono. SYNOPSIS: A lonely twelve-year old boy befriends his new neighbour and soon has to confront the reality that the seemingly innocent young girl is actually a savage vampire responsible for a string of murders in […]

Despicable Me, 2010. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. Featuring the voice talents of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews. SYNOPSIS: Evil supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) finds out he’s not the number one villain anymore and has been replaced by a younger, arrogant teen named Vector (Jason Segel). Determined the return […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I admired [Stanley] Kubrick for the sheer variety of his films,” stated Steven Spielberg of the reclusive and revered American filmmaker. “Paths of Glory [1957] was the best antiwar […]

Luke Owen examines the classic horror franchise Friday the 13th in the second of a two-part feature… read part one here. While the first half of the Friday series was a bit hit (parts 1, 2 & 4) and miss (parts 3 & 5), the latter half was more cut and dry in the miss […]