Continuing his look at the Most Disappointing Films of All Time, Anghus Houvouras turns his attention to The Hobbit; warning – spoilers ahead…. I was discussing The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with some friends, and one remarked how much he enjoyed the movie.  He immediately followed that statement by asking for some clarification on […]

Screen legend Peter O’Toole has passed away today aged 81 after battling a long illness, his agent has revealed. The star, who received an honorary Oscar in 2003, enjoyed a career that spanned seven decades and saw him receiving eight Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (making him the most-nominated actor never to win the […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… This week, The Dissolve writes about the new 100 Alamo Movies list: “The company currently has 18 theaters and plans to open another five next year. Seven of the 100, including Brazil, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, and Raiders Of The Lost Ark, will be shown in […]

Luke Owen on the definition of a “Christmas movie”…. During the preparation for Flickering Myth’s on-going “My Favourite Christmas Movie”, the following discussion took place: Tom Jolliffe: I’ll take Rocky IV. Forgot that it was set at Crimbo.Me: Is Rocky IV a Christmas movie?Tom Jolliffe: The main fight takes place on Christmas day. A valid […]

Simon Columb reviews About Schmidt from BFI Southbank’s Alexander Payne retrospective… About Schmidt is about America. Jack Nicholson is front and centre in Alexander Payne’s 2002 dramatic comedy about a man coping with retirement and the loss of his wife. As Election became a bigger and bolder statement about democracy, About Schmidt is a reflection […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom, The Sinister Six, Batman vs. Superman, Superman Lives, Arrow, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and more…. After an absolutely crazy week for superhero […]

Thomas Harris reviews Sideways… Sideways is arguably Alexander Payne’s most conventional film. However, under the guise of a different director, the film could have been conventional in a mundane way, however, through his deft eye for realism, Sideways is one of few American classics released in the noughties. Impeccably acted, witty and incredibly gentle, the […]

20th Century Fox has picked up the rights to Agatha Christie’s classic 1934 murder-mystery Murder on the Orient Express, hiring Ridley Scott (Prometheus), Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class) and Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan) to produce. Murder on the Orient Express first reached the screen in 1974 under director Sidney Lumet and saw Albert Finney […]

Alice Rush reviews the ninth episode of American Horror Story: Coven…. There’s no doubt that this season of American Horror Story has been a slow burner. We’ve had a plethora of characters come and go, die and be brought back to life as well an underlying tension that always seemed to be building rather than […]

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is set to reunite with director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World), with Deadline revealing that the star has secured the role of Sarah Connor in the forthcoming reboot Terminator: Genesis, having fought off competition from Brie Larsen (21 Jump Street). The actress will be joined in the cast […]