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Flickering Myth is a digital media publisher and independent film production company established in 2009, covering movies, television, comic books, video games, and geek culture news. Known for authoritative entertainment journalism and original film projects, Flickering Myth serves a global audience of pop culture enthusiasts and industry professionals.

Why TV Shows Need to Know Their Limits

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In the world of entertainment, there’s almost nothing better than being completely immersed in a TV binge of your favourite show. I know this from experience and still love Breaking Bad sessions when I get the chance, as I can never watch just one. Just because a lot of us like to watch a lot […]

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction

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The Flickering Myth Team react… After a small teaser earlier in the week, the latest trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was released to the wide world, and showed off what many have been expecting – Doomsday. Some have already critisied the trailer for being spoiler-heavy, but what did the writing staff of […]

Why Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice doesn’t need Doomsday

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Luke Owen looks at the big reveal in the latest Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer… It’s the showdown we’ve all been waiting for – World’s Finest collide as The Dark Knight takes on The Man of Steel in next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The Comic-Con trailer teased us with what this […]

VOD Review – Nintendo Quest (2015)

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Nintendo Quest, 2015 Directed by Robert McCallum SYNOPSIS: In this all-encompassing documentary on Nintendo, gaming enthusiast Jay Bartlett hits the open road with best friend Rob McCallum in hopes of buying the 678 official retail-licensed Nintendo games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (1985) in 30 days with no online purchases. Along the way Jay and […]

5 Reasons Why You Should Pre-order Video Games

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Worried about whether or not you should click the ‘add to cart’ button before the game has even come out? Pre-ordering video games has lots of benefits — for both you and the community. Here are 5 reasons why you should pre-order games. It helps make sure the game actually gets released Making video games […]

The Good Dinosaur scores Pixar’s lowest opening weekend since Toy Story

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Pixar’s latest movie, The Good Dinosaur, has scored the studio’s lowest opening weekend since its debut movie Toy Story. Opening second behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in its second week of release, The Good Dinosaur brought home $39.1 million on its opening weekend, which puts it just ahead of Toy Story, which opened to […]

Victor Frankenstein has one of the worst opening weekends of all-time

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There have been a few big name films that have bombed at the box office this year, including Terminator: Genisys, Crimson Peak, American Ultra, Pan, Pixels and Mortdecai, but Victor Frankenstein has topped the lot. With a domestic box office opening weekend of $2.35 million, Victor Frankenstein is not only the lowest opening of any movie […]

Mega Drive Turns 25 – The 16 Best Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Games

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Luke Owen celebrates an important birthday… Although the console was released in Japan and America in 1989, we here in the UK didn’t get the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis as it was known in the US) until November 30th, 2015. So, it’s the consoles 25th birthday today. At least in the UK. Bet you […]

The Week in Star Wars – New footage from The Force Awakens, major character returning for Episode VIII, J.J promises less lens flare and more

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We’ve got some more new footage from The Force Awakens in this edition of The Week in Star Wars, along with news of the film’s rating and lens flare, as well as spoilers for Episode VIII and some video games bits and bobs… Kicking things off with some more new footage from Star Wars: The […]