Flickering Myth's second birthday extravaganza!

February 2009... the 3D craze was still in its infancy, James Cameron's Titanic remained untouchable at the all-time box office, The Hobbit was gearing up for production under director Guillermo del Toro and M. Night Shyamalan’s career lay in tatters following the release of The Happening. Fast-forward 24 months and almost every film now comes with that added dimension (and subsequent surcharge), James Cameron’s Avatar sits proudly atop the global box office, The Hobbit is gearing up for production under director Peter Jackson and M. Night Shyamalan’s career lies in tatters following the release of The Last Airbender.

My, how time flies. It really doesn’t seem like two years ago that Flickering Myth first made its way onto the World Wide Web but today marks our second anniversary. We've come a long way since that first posting (a review of Easy Rider, if you’re interested); in July 2009 were we joined by Trevor Hogg, who brought with him fantastic series of filmmaker profiles and interviews, and as the site has grown we’ve continued to expand our writing team in the hope of giving you quality content on a regular basis. With that in mind, here are some of the most popular posts from our archive...

Most popular reviews…

Inception (2010, dir. Christopher Nolan)
Diagnosis Death (2009, dir. Jason Stutter)
Baise-moi (2000, dir. Virginie Despentes and Coralie)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
F (2010, dir. Johannes Roberts)

Most popular filmmaker profiles…

Drawn to Anime: A Hayao Miyazaki Profile
Animated Storytellers: A Pixar Animation Studios Profile
Resurfacing: A James Cameron Profile
Theatre of the Mind: A Christopher Nolan Profile
Freakishly Clever: A Tim Burton Profile

Most popular essentials…

Five Essential Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Ten Essential Movie Superheroes
Five Essential Films of Takashi Miike
Five Essential Movie Supervillains
Five Essential Films of Ridley Scott

Most popular special features...

Where Did All the Good Spoofs Go?
Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen
What’s next for Batman after The Dark Knight has risen?
Empire Building: The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
Story Upgrade: Expanding the world of Tron

2011 has been a pretty good year so far here at Flickering Myth; along with our nomination for Best Overall Blog in the Total Film Movie Blog Awards but we've climbed to the dizzying heights of tenth in Wikio's cinema rankings and cracked the top 20 of Technorati's Top 100 Film. Meanwhile the fine folks at MadeMan were nice enough to select us in their 10 Best Free Film Sites and we also appeared on Cision's list of the Top 10 UK Film Blogs of 2010.

So, this would be a perfect time for me to take the opportunity to thank all of our readers, along with everyone who has taken the time to comment on the posts, our contributors past and present (see here) and all of the fabulous sites that have supported us (check out their links in the sidebar, you won’t regret it!). Here's to the next two years!

Gary Collinson