Ham on Rye is streaming on Mubi.
âDo you know what itâs like to be one of the lucky ones?â sings the John Peel-approved Australian outfit Even As We Speak over the opening credits of the baffling and seductive Ham on Rye. This is Blue Eyes Deceiving Me, one of several chiming pop songs (another is Tonight Iâm Gonna Fall in Love by the 1960s girl group The Teardrops) on the soundtrack. These numbers break ecstatically through a dreamy score drawn from the back catalogue of the German New Age composer Deuter, who favours a haunting, elegiac flute.
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2015…
As 2015 draws to a close, the writing team here at Flickering Myth have been voting on our favourite movies from the past twelve months. As always, each of our writers produces their own individual list, which we then use to calculate our overall top ten of the year. So, without further ado, let’s get the countdown started…
10. Jurassic World
Directed by Colin Trevorrow.
Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Omar Sy, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson and B.D. Wong.
It Follows: an allegory for the pandemic, and more
Phil Hobbins-White
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December 2020
“Somebody gave it to me and I passed it to you… It could look like someone you know, or it could be a stranger in a crowd”, Hugh says to Jay, after he has infected her with a deadly and mysterious virus in
It Follows. But what is “It”? Is “It” a metaphor? This horror film has something in common with some of the greats of the genre – an incredibly wide-range of ways it can be understood.
It Follows’ director David Robert Mitchell said that the film is set in “a mixture of universes, a world we don’t live in”