Name: Lovely Runner (선재 업고 튀어 in Korean) Premiere date: April 8, 2024 Cast: Kim Hye Yoon and Byeon Woo Seok Director: Yoon Jong Ho, Kim Tae Yeop Writer: Lee Si Eun Number of episodes: 16 Genre: Romance, Time-slip, Comedy, Fantasy Language: Korean Where to watch: Viki Lovely Runner plot Lovely Runner presents a captivating time-slip romance drama that poses the ultimate question: "What would you do if given the chance to save your ultimate bias?" Kim Hye Yoon takes the lead as Im Sol, a...
It's kaiju and pirates in this ahistorical take on the dragons found on old treasure maps—but it doesn't quite deliver on its fantastic elevator pitch.
Bleeding Love, 2024. Directed by Emma Westenberg. Starring Clara McGregor, Ewan McGregor, Kim Zimmer, Devyn McDowell, Sasha Alexander, Jake Weary, Vera Bulder, Travis Hammer, Clint Obenchain, Kristin K. Berg, Jacob Browne, J. Nathan Simmons, Willard Runsabove, Helen Trencher, Eve Kozikowski, Erica Bitton, and Ilasiea Gray. SYNOPSIS: A father takes his estranged daughter on a road […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the...
Like some unholy fusion of Resident Evil and Dance Moms, Abigail dares suggest that the only thing scarier than a haunted house is one that’s also occupied by a pissed-off tween ballerina with an emotionally absent, narcissistic parent. It’s not wrong, but there’ll be no Abby Lee Miller showing up to discipline the kid, or protect the dim-bulb adults in attendance from falling victim. It is perhaps a shame that the entire marketing campaign for Abigail places its delicious end-of-first-act...
The One Day author’s new will-they-won’t-they tale, about two divorcees who find themselves walking the Lakes and Pennines, is a great comic novel – and superb on the landscapeThe proximity of the publication of David Nicholls’s sixth novel, You Are Here, to the screening of the superb Netflix remake of One Day gives the new book an added sense of poignancy. If One Day (2009) saw Nicholls as a writer in his mid-40s looking back nostalgically on the loves and losses of twentysomethings, here we...
Love Lies Bleeding, 2024. Directed by Rose Glass. Starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Orion Carrington, Jerry G. Angelo, Tait Fletcher, Eldon Jones, and Matthew Blood-Smyth. SYNOPSIS: Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post...
The premise of Dempsey and Makepeace was the oddball pairing of two police detectives – an elegant British noblewoman, Sergeant, Lady, Harriet Makepeace, and a streetwise working-class New Yorker, Lieutenant James Dempsey, both working for an elite and armed unit of the London Metropolitan Police. It was kind of a male-female version of The Persuaders – Roger Moore played the English aristocrat Lord Brett Sinclair and Tony Curtis was a street-wise slugger from the slums of the Big Apple. Glynis...
A book its author 'would much rather not have needed to write' ranges far
Luca Guadagnino's tennis movie, "Challengers," starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor, is so much more. Review.
Dibakar Banerjee’s sequel to ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha’ (2019) stars Paritosh Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee, Bonita Rajpurohit and Abhinav Santosh Singh.
Luca Guadagnino’s terrifically absorbing screwball dramedy features a devastatingly cool leading lady, Josh O’Connor on rallying form and zinging extended dialogue rallies to matchIt’s almost too good to be true. Could cinema be witnessing the birth of a stunning new mixed doubles partnership? Last year, Korean-Canadian film-maker Celine Song gave us her wonderful, Oscar-nominated debut film Past Lives, a personal love-triangle movie about a South Korean woman in the US, married to a white...
For three years before his death in 2006, Lale Sokolov poured out his incredible and heartbreaking account of life and love in the Auschwitz concentration camp to New Zealand-born author Heather Morris a tale of the best and worst of humanity, and one that he had kept hidden for 60 years. It’s a story that Morris brought to the world in 2018 as The Tattooist of Auschwitz, a remarkable novel that has been loved by over 13 million readers across the world and is soon to be a major Sky Original TV...