Earlier this week Relativity Media finally found its leading man for the long-gestating remake of The Crow when Luke Evans (Immortals, Fast & Furious 6) was announced as having secured the role of Eric Draven in the latest retelling of comic book creator James O’Barr’s supernatural revenge tale. Evans secured the role ahead of rumoured […]

With his latest film raking in the cash worldwide, Shane Black has wasted little time lining up his next project, with the Iron Man 3 director set to swap the comic book superhero Tony Stark for the pulp adventurer Doc Savage. We’ve known for a while that Black was developing a script for the project, […]

Upstream Colour, 2013. Directed by Shane Carruth.Starring Shane Carruth, Amy Seimetz and Andrew Sensenig. SYNOPSIS: It’s about, um…the loss of identiy and, er…substance addiction and pig farming and sound recording and astral planes and an interconnectedness of humanity beyond anything you could ever imagine and…and…anything you want it to be! . Shane Carruth made Primer back in […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam Retrospective… American director John Huston once remarked, “The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on and one day you die. That […]

Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #20… “The superhuman transformation of Ignatius Ogilvy is just the tip of the iceberg when an extremely unexpected character comes to The Penguin’s aid!“ This one is it. The buildup over the past few issues with the rise of Emperor Penguin (Ignatius Ogilvy) and the fall of Oswald Cobblepot finally […]

Opening this week in UK cinemas, Star Trek Into Darkness is set to be one of the summer’s biggest films. Last week, the cast and crew were in town to promote the film, and writer Scott Davis reports from the London press conference…. After a four year hiatus, the wait is almost over to see […]

We’re sad to report the news that SFX guru and pioneer Ray Harryhausen has passed away at the age of 92. The news was sent out by The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation Facebook page. Harryhausen was best known for his work in the field of stop-motion animation on films such as Clash of the Titans, […]

If you thought Tobey Maguire’s Spidey had it tough in the third instalment of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy going up against the Sandman (Thomas Hayden Church) and Venom (Topher Grace), then Andrew Garfield’s wall-crawler looks set to face an even bigger challenge in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. We already know that Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained) […]

The Impossible, 2012. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. SYNOPSIS: The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. When The Impossible hit cinemas earlier this year, the hype surrounding it was insane. Not only where […]

To celebrate the release of Star Trek Into Darkness, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at the classic sci-fi franchise. Next up for Star Trek Month is Andrew Naylor looking back at the original Star Trek series…. Star Trek follows the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise, […]