To countdown to this year’s Halloween, Luke Owen reviews a different horror film every day of October. Up next; the first of the Child’s Play franchise… With Curse of Chucky being released this coming Monday (read my review here), the next five editions of Countdown to Halloween will be looking at everyone’s fourth or fifth […]

Riddick and Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel spent an awful lot of time this year teasing the fact he’d met with Marvel Studios about a role in the Cinematic Universe, before it was finally revealed that he’d be lending his voice to Groot, the tree-like member of the cosmic superhero team Guardians of the […]

Last year it was revealed that fanboy favourite director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pacific Rim) was planning to bring together to supernatural characters of the DC Universe for Heaven Sent, a.k.a. Dark Universe, a.k.a. an adaptation of the comic book series Justice League Dark, which revolves around a team led by John Constantine. However, just […]

Captain Phillips, 2013. Directed by Paul Greengrass.Starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chirs Mulkey, and Yul Vazquez. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American […]

It was a shock when it was announced that Donald Glover was to appear in just 5 episodes of the upcoming series of Community and it was presumed that it was as a result of prior commitments to his own sitcom. However, Glover has released a series of incredible personal notes that reveal the exact […]

To countdown to this year’s Halloween, Luke Owen reviews a different horror film every day of October. Next up, David Cronenberg’s adaptation of The Fly…For the last seven days of Countdown to Halloween, we’ve been looking at remakes and re-imaginings of classic movies usually with the view of the “updated” version not quite matching up […]

Having being revealed yesterday as one of the front runners for the role of Dr. Henry ‘Hank’ Pym in Edgar Wright’s upcoming Marvel movie Ant-Man alongside Paul Rudd (This Is Forty, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues), The Dark Knight Rises and Don Jon star Joseph Gordon-Levitt has now confirmed that he’s met with the studio, […]

In the first of a new feature here at Flickering Myth, Sam Thorne delves into the history of the superhero movie genre; first up is The Punisher and The Wild World of Batwoman… The advent of the superhero genre, and its insane popularity is an unlikely one. It may seem hard to remember a time […]

Arrow star Stephen Amell has taken to Twitter to release the first official images of his character Oliver Queen alongside the Black Canary, played by cast newcomer Caity Lotz, who we caught a glimpse of during the season two premiere. Sadly, no fishnets… Black Canary is expected to make her first appearance proper in the […]

Sir Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Thor) is known for being a bit of a ‘luvvie,’ an actor of stage or screen who tends towards affection. But that shouldn’t devalue this next piece of news. Steven Michael Quezada (Steven ‘Gomey’ Gomez in Breaking Bad), recently posted the following letter on Facebook. It’s from Hopkins […]