Bill Willingham’s multi-Eisner Award-winning DC / Vertigo comic book series Fables is heading to the big screen courtesy of Harry Potter producer David Heyman and his production company Heyday Films, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.Fables centres on a selection of fairy tale characters who are exiled from their homeland, forcing them to live in secret […]

Oliver Davis reviews East of West #3… “Death’s reign of terror over THOSE WHO RULE continues, as the forces of the END TIMES continue to work to bring about the Apocalypse. It’s the END OF THE WORLD: Someone dies, someone lives, and someone falls in love.” WHO IS THIS WOMAN, THE ONE THAT CONQUERED DEATH? […]

Say it isn’t so! After nabbing the role from Dougray Scott (picking Mission: Impossible II must have seemed the right idea at the time), and so far starring as Wolverine six times. could Hugh Jackman be thinking about life without chicken breast and Adamantium?“I wasn’t even sure after the first [stand-alone] film if I would do […]

To celebrate the release of Man of Steel this month, the Flickering Myth writing team are looking back over Superman’s previous screen adventures; next up is Tom Jolliffe with a review of 1983’s Superman III…As a kid growing up in the 80s, the Christopher Reeve Superman films were firm favourites. In my younger days my […]

With all the news for Star Wars: Episode: VII falling fairly quiet as of late (apart from getting a director of course), it’s nice to see some stories about the original trilogy coming into our news desk. During An Evening with Al Pacino this last weekend in London, the actor talked about how the role […]

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, 2013. Directed by Shane Meadows. Starring Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren. SYNOPSIS: Documentary detailing the reunion of seminal Manchester rock band, The Stone Roses. At first, a documentary about The Stone Roses doesn’t seem to mesh with Shane Meadows’ recent run of autobiographical […]

Luke Owen looks at Transformers: Robots in Disguise #18 – the prelude to Dark Cybertron…SURVIVOR’S GUILT! After the shattering events of the past two issues, we can’t tell you who’s alive and who’s dead. But we will hint that one CYBERTRONIAN has to reconsider her worldview-while she comes face-to-face with some old enemies. We won’t […]

The Iceman, 2012.Directed by Ariel Vromen.Starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, Robert Davi, James Franco, and Stephen Dorff.SYNOPSIS:Chronicling the life of Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski (Shannon), a near-emotionless contract killer for the mob. Just before he becomes a global superstar with Man of Steel, there is still opportunity to see […]

Villordsutch reviews the collected edition of Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes…“IDW Publishing and DC Comics are proud to present the greatest tale of the 23rd century! Or is that the 31st century? As you’ll see here, it’s both! Eisner-nominated writer Chris Roberson and Star Trek and Legionnaires veteran artist Jeffrey Moy partner up to […]

John Lucking reviews the tenth episode of Hannibal…. It’s one thing to say that Will Graham is undergoing some kind of mental trauma, but how far in this direction can Hannibal really go? It’s a fragile subject and unless you’re going to do it justice one best left untouched, but this week’s macro-level focus on […]