Tom Jolliffe takes in a brilliant mullets double bill of Big Trouble in Little China and They Live… John Carpenter has made so many brilliant films. He’s crossed effortlessly between the horror genre and action. He’s also made some of the most iconic horror films ever made. With so many genre classics like Halloween, or […]

Point Blank, 1967.Directed by John Boorman.Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O’Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong and John Vernon.SYNOPSIS:After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker (Lee Marvin) single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him. In Point Blank, director John Boorman […]

The Flickering Myth team discuss the first trailer for The Wolverine…. On Monday, we got a teaser for the first trailer for The Wolverine. Then on Tuesday we got a slightly longer teaser for the trailer. Finally, after the trailer for a trailer which itself was a trailer for the trailer, we finally got the […]

Now that G.I. Joe: Retaliation has arrived in cinemas [read our ★★★ review here], director Jon M. Chu can give his full attention to another classic 80s toy line that he’s set to adapt for the screen in the long-in-development Masters of the Universe. Speaking to IGN (via ComicBookMovie), Chu has provided a brief update […]

Harrison Ford has certainly played some iconic characters in his time, and now that he’s hit the big 7-0, it seems he could be set to revisit three of the best-loved, with rumours abound that he’s wanted for upcoming sequels to Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Blade Runner. But does Ford himself have any interest […]

Starbuck, 2011. Directed by Ken Scott.Starring Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie, David Michael, Mac Belanger, Igor Ovadis, David Giguere, Patrick Martin and Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse. SYNOPSIS: As his lover announces her pregnancy, a fortysomething slacker receives other life-changing news: 142 people, all of them the result of artificial insemination, have filed a class […]

Matt Smith reviews the latest episode of Elementary…Sherlock’s back. Well, he never really left, but every week I get pleasantly surprised and inevitably delighted that this series is on. So, for the busy people reading this, you can go now, that pretty much sums up my feelings. But I am required to say more, otherwise […]

Ozzy Armstrong with a spoiler-free report from a special London preview of the Game of Thrones season 3 opener ‘Valar Dohaeris’, followed by a special Q&A session with Michelle Fairley, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Gwendoline Christie and Charles Dance…. I had the pleasure of attending the premiere screening of the season 3 opener for Game of Thrones […]

G.I. Joe: Retaliation, 2013.Directed by Jon M. Chu.Starring Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Lee Byung-hun, Adrianne Palicki, D.J. Cotrona, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Jonathan Pryce, Elodie Yung, RZA, Joseph Mazzello, Arnold Vosloo, Walton Goggins and Channing Tatum.SYNOPSIS:When Cobra takes control of the US government and orders G.I. Joe destroyed, a small team of Joes led by […]

Follwing our interview with Dale Lloyd of Viva VHS, Jack Morris looks back at his VHS memories…One of my earliest memories, other than seeing a parrot ride a tricycle whilst on holiday in Spain with my parents, is sitting on the living room floor at my parents friend’s house in front of their sideboard and […]