Tom Jolliffe on the trials and tribulations of making a film… The film, the team and the lowdown: Aside from my time offering my sage (stop laughing) film criticism for Flickering Myth, I have an ambition to become a screenwriter, so that another member of the team here can offer sage criticism on a film […]

Last month it was confirmed by the man himself that Max Landis was no longer involved with 20th Century Fox’s planned sequel to 2012’s box office success Chronicle, and now the screenwriter has been speaking about his idea for the follow-up to the low-budget super powers flick, revealing that he wanted to take the film […]

Gary Collinson reviews G.I. Joe: Special Missions #6…. “G.I. Joe has tracked a downed Cobra satellite to the lair of a vicious gang of motorcycle marauders called The Dreadnoks! The bad news keeps coming with the re-appearance of Zartan as the leader of the biker maniacs and they have three G.I. Joe members captive! It’s […]

Having headlined his second solo movie this summer with The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman will return as Logan once again next year for Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, but if a new rumour is to be believed, it seems that 20th Century Fox is keen to tie down the crown jewel of its X-Men […]

The Way Way Back, 2013. Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.Starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, and Liam James. SYNOPSIS: Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected […]

Evil Dead, 2013. Directed by Fede Alvarez.Starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas and Elizabeth Blackmore. SYNOPSIS: Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only […]

The Gatekeepers, 2012. Directed by Dror Moreh.Starring Carmi Gillon, Yaakov Peri, Yuval Diskin, Avi Dichter, Ami Ayalon and Avraham Shalom. SYNOPSIS:A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets. Having little context offered to begin with, The Gatekeepers begins […]

JediNews is reporting that Ian McDiarmid, who played Emperor Palpatine in the first six Star Wars films, will feature in J.J. Abrams’ (Star Trek Into Darkness) upcoming Episode VII: “Information passed to Team Jedi News via an unnamed source has informed us that Ian McDiarmid is set to return to the galaxy far, far away […]

Kick-Ass, 2013. Directed by Jeff Wadlow.Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey, John Leguizamo, Morris Chestnut, Clark Duke, Claudia Lee, Lyndsy Fonseca, Robert Emms, Lindy Booth, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Nyman and Olga Kurkulina. SYNOPSIS: The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight […]

Anghus Houvouras on the ever-growing online army of Hollywood Haters… Misery Index. A phrase I use when cataloging all the horrors and hyperbolic ramblings I come across online.  Those negative, bile spewing citizens of this digital community who only seem to be able to express themselves with anger.  Some artists work in oils.  Others in […]