Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Kirsty Puchko writes for CinemaBlend.com about eBay’s decision to stop selling Django Unchained dolls: “From autographed posters to collectible figures and vintage promo tees, eBay is typically a terrific venue for seeking out hard to find movie memorabilia. So, when The Weinstein Company pushed toymaker NECA to pull […]

Amour, 2012. Written and Directed by Michael Haneke.Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. SYNOPSIS: An elderly couple’s bond of love is severely tested after one of them suffers a stroke. Warning – spoilers ahead… Georges and Anne are a married couple in their eighties, still happy and in love after, we assume, several […]

The Last Stand, 2013. Directed by Kim Ji-woon.Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Guzmán, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Jaimie Alexander, Zach Gilford and Génesis Rodríguez. SYNOPSIS:  The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is […]

Zero Dark Thirty, 2012. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kinney, Mark Duplass, Stephen Dillane, Frank Grillo, Edgar Ramirez, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Scott Adkins and John Barrowman. SYNOPSIS: The hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers 2, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, S.H.I.EL.D., Man of Steel, Batman, Justice League, Kick-Ass 2, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Arrow, DC […]

And so, the wait is over… after reports this past week that Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams would be taking a trip to a galaxy far, far away, Disney and Lucasfilm have officially confirmed that the Abrams is set to helm Star Wars: Episode VII, the first chapter of Disney’s […]

Simon Columb reports on the BFI’s Projections: A Psychoanalysis of Polanski’s ‘Apartment’ Trilogy talk… Roman Polanski remains a fascinating filmmaker to this day. Alongside Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Polanski came to the fore in the late 1950s in Poland. The BFI in London are screening all of Polanski’s films during January and February and […]

Fresh off the enormous box office success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Marvel is preparing to launch Phase Two of its Cinematic Universe this spring with the release of Iron Man 3, but it seems the studio is already looking beyond this next round of movies. Speaking to MTV, Marvel’s President of Production Kevin Feige […]

To conclude our week long American Mary feature the ‘Twisted Twins’ kindly took time out of their busy schedule to write an exclusive piece for Flickering Myth’s readers, summarising in their own words the American Mary experience. We extend our eternal thanks to the ‘Twisted Twins’, Katherine Isabelle and Mike Hewitt (PR legend at Universal […]

With Movie 43 set for release across the USA and the UK today, one of the films co-creators / writers / producers Peter Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) has been giving his two cents on the movie to Reddit, as well answering some questions on the possibility the Dumb & Dumber sequel, […]