Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of Matthew Perry’s new sitcom Go On… Since Friends ended in 2004, Matthew Perry hasn’t had the best of careers. The few movies he’s been in have been forgettable, his ABC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled after one season and his FOX show Mr. Sunshine […]

With Disney set to unleash Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2 between now and 2015 (during which we’ll also see the arrival of Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Fox’s The Wolverine and X-Men Days of Future Past), there appears to […]

The latest edition of Total Film is available now, and tucked away behind all the comic book coverage of the likes of Dredd, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and The Avengers 2 is a short review of my book, Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen. If you have the magazine, […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Emmy Award-nominee Angus Bickerton about the craft of visual effects, the founding of a VFX facility, and his love for reading books… “I always wanted to be a pilot when I was younger,” admits British Visual Effects Supervisor Angus Bickerton (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). “There were reasons I couldn’t […]

As the James Bond movie franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary with the release of Skyfall later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop an as-yet-untitled comedy project centred around “a James Bond-like spy who ‘is forced to go on the […]

Luke Owen takes in a Nightmare on Elm Street movie marathon… Number of films – 8 (6 original, 1 spin-off, 1 remake) Estimated time of completion – 12 Hours The first thing I ever wrote for Flickering Myth was a retrospective on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. I’m a huge fan of the franchise […]

This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox Saturday morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

Last month filmmaker David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) chose to vacate the director’s chair on 20th Century Fox’s proposed Daredevil reboot, leaving the studio facing an uphill task to get the project into production before October 10th, at which point the rights to the character are set to revert back to Marvel Studios. According […]

Surf Nazis Must Die, 1987. Directed by Peter George. Starring Gail Neely, Barry Brenner, Robert Harden and Tom Demenkoff. SYNOPSIS: When the California coast is ravaged by a massive earthquake, the beaches are left in a state of anarchy, allowing a gang of fascist water rats known as the Surf Nazis to seize control. The […]