Freddie Deighton

Top 20 Greatest Ever Comic Book Films: Matt Reeves’ The Batman was one of the most hotly anticipated 2022 releases, sporting a fan-favourite cast, extended runtime and a perfectly dark tone if the trailers are anything to go by. Worlds apart from 1966’s Batman: The Movie, the dark knight has adopted (no pun intended) a far more complex persona, with subsequent iterations skirting increasingly closer to a fractured psyche; one which matches his backstory and the life of a vigilante in Gotham, ...

“Filth elder” John Waters has a new book out, Liarmouth. With a show coming up on 10 June in London at the Barbican and the long-awaited UK uncut home video release of Pink Flamingos coming on Blu-Ray from the Criterion Collection, FilmHounds Writer Ian Schultz gave Waters a call at home in Baltimore. The conversation ended up taking up everything from writing during Covid to his opinions on the Depp-Heard case to the recent cult oddity Butt Boy.
How does it feel to have your debut novel out ...

As soon as one Marvel TV show ends on Disney+ we’re instantly thrown straight back into the MCU with another one arriving not long after. Their latest show Ms. Marvel arrives on June 8th and introduces Kamala Khan, a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a Super Hero mega fan with an oversized imagination—particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel. Yet Kamala feels invisible both at home and at school—that is, until s...

Janus Metz Pedersen is a director of some range. His work in documentaries Ticket to Paradise and Armadillo garnered him great critical plaudits, his feature film Borg McEnroe had one of the career best performances from Shia LaBeouf and recently his work on television series ZeroZeroZero was well received for being both stylish and uncommonly clever. His latest film, the Prime Video backed All the Old Knives follows two CIA agents and former lovers played Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton who o...

Dutch documentary filmmaker Klaartje Quirjins has made a remarkable film, a documentary she has worked on for seventeen years that saw her record Dr Michael Maskowitz’ therapy sessions with world renowned freudian psychologist Dr Kirkland Vaughan. In the process Quirjins was compelled to turn the camera onto herself and her strained relationship with her mother and her non-existent relationship with her father, and try to understand how the death of her older sister at age six affected them a...

Telling a war story from behind a desk is always going to be one that’s hard to make entertaining on screen. Operation Mincemeat is a lot more like The Courier in the sense that it tells an interesting spy story with high stakes but set in an area that is far less cinematic than being on the field.
Operation Mincemeat often feels like it’s trying to be a heist film. A great amount of the film is dedicated to setting up the titular deception and every character has their role within the group....

Interviews Editor Freddie Deighton got the chance to talk to the star of Pan (2015), Levi Miller about his new film Streamline. A film about a young, up and coming swimmer who tackles having a convict dad (played by Jason Isaacs) and a test of faith set in suburban Australia. Read on as Freddie and Levi talk about training, his younger self and possible future projects…
Were you much of a swimmer before signing on to this film?
Prior to this, no I wasn’t. In Australia, swimming is pretty big,...

FilmHounds’ Interviews Editor Freddie Deighton had the chance to talk to Bradley J. Fischer, the producer of Michael Bay’s new action thriller Ambulance, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Read on as they talk about making remakes, pandemic production hell and helicopters!
Who first brought the original film Ambulancen to your attention?
The original film was brought to me by Chris Fedak, the screenwriter who adapted it. I believe it was brought to him by his Danish manager w...

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This week we have a SPECIAL EPISODE with Special Guest Freddie Deighton, we're discussing and reviewing the new DC Film The Batman. We share our thoughts and whether we were impressed by the new Batman
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Pale Flower is a seemingly lesser known example of the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s directed by Masahiro Shinoda. In it we see Muraki, a tough Yakuza henchman, leaving prison after a frightfully short sentence of three years for the murder of a fellow gang member. He returns to Tokyo where he reconnects with his former bosses and makes new friends and lovers along the way. Sadly though, the dark world of organised crime catches up to him and he has to make life changing decisions in order t...

FilmHounds was invited to an exclusive press conference for The Batman, here’s what the cast (Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano and Jeffrey Wright) had to say about their roles and their experiences making this epic film.
Q: How does it feel now that audiences can see these iconic characters brought back to the big screen in your way?
ZK: It’s scary. It’s rare that the release of a film is just as intense as the making of the film. It’s exciting as well because we all poured our hearts...

Kenneth Branagh brings audiences yet another adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s most beloved Hercule Poirot novels in Death On The Nile. The classic story that follows everyone’s favourite Belgian sleuth as he’s invited on a cruise along the world’s longest river by a fearful newlywed played by the regal Gal Gadot.
Many will already be familiar with the story of Death On The Nile given the countless films already made based on the famous book. However, even if you’ve managed to avoid know...

The Deight Night Reviews ranking of the best films of 2021!

My video review of Nightmare Alley.