Following the acclaimed World War II dramas Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are set to produce a third WWII miniseries for HBO, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the as-yet-untitled project “will explore the aerial wars through the eyes of enlisted men of the Eighth Air Force – known […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Scott Davis with 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day… I remember the day so vividly when I was first introduced to the world of The Terminator. My uncle, a young […]

Simon Columb attends the Roman Polanski retrospective at BFI Southbank… 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 2013 and throughout January, essays […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Black Panther, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Heroes for Hire, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Man of Steel, Arrow, Amazon, Batman: The Dark […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Tori Brazier with 1990’s Kindergarten Cop… Directed by Ivan Reitman, Kindergarten Cop is a gloriously nineties, bonkers hash of cop-thriller and comedy, starring Hollywood’s favourite Austrian Schwarzenegger in the […]

Django Unchained, 2012.Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino.Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson and Jonah Hill. SYNOPSIS: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation […]

V/H/S, 2012. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillet, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West and Adam Wingard.Starring Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Mike Donlan, Hannah Fierman and Joe Swanberg. SYNOPSIS:When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Anghus Houvouras with 1990’s Total Recall.. Arnold Schwarzenegger existed in an unpretentious era of film. At a time when Hollywood was the personification of the American dream.   Where an […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the latest issue of Daredevil… “Daredevil teams up with the all-new Superior Spider-Man! Also: Stilt-Man is back and better than ever thanks to some last minute help from Doctor Octopus!“ As we enter the fourth month of Marvel NOW! I find myself starting to see the genius of this Marvel makeover.  Marvel […]

Gangster Squad, 2013. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Michael Pena, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte and Josh Pence. SYNOPSIS: A group of incorruptible Los Angeles police officers join together to stop and up-and-coming mafia boss, sparking a violent war for control of the city. […]