Lionsgate have secured the movie rights to the first-person zombie-fighting video game Dead Island, from its developers Deep Silver. Released earlier this month, Dead Island sees a group of survivors at a beach resort threatened by an undead plague ravaging the outside world. The teaser trailer for the game is the “primary creative inspiration” for […]

Shiver (Spanish: Eskalofrío), 2008. Directed by Isidro Ortiz. Starring Junio Valverde, Mar Soupe and Blanca Suarez. SYNOPSIS: Santi has a serious case of photophobia, to improve his health him and his mother are forced to move to a shadowed village in the Spanish mountains but not all is quite right about their new hometown. In […]

My Voyage to Italy (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia), 1999. Directed by Martin Scorsese. SYNOPSIS: Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese embarks on a journey through Italian cinema history. Let’s get something straight, right now. If you’re a film lover, you will quite happily soak in Scorsese’s documentary of Italian cinema for all four hours of […]

With Jurassic Park being re-released in cinemas this week and news of Ghostbusters getting the same treatment next month, Luke Owen explores a possible new trend in Hollywood… October 2010, I was in the car with my housemates on the way to my local over-priced multiplex. But we weren’t on our way to see the […]

51, 2011. Directed by Jason Connery. Starring Bruce Boxleitner, Rachel Miner, Vanessa Branch, Jason London, Andrew Sensenig and Damon Lipari. SYNOPSIS: Following pressure from the American public, the military open the doors to Area 51 to two well-known reporters only for the well-managed tour to turn into a fight for survival when one of the […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… It’s been quite an active week from The Dark Knight Rises camp, with several of the film’s cast talking (briefly) about Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman feature; Tom Hardy told The Scotsman that the director “has relative carte […]

This evening Flickering Myth were one of a number of sites invited to take part in a virtual roundtable interview with Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers, co-directors of The Lion King, to discuss the 3D re-release of the animated Disney classic ahead of its arrival here in the U.K. on October 7th. The resulting two-hour […]

Juice, 1992. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. Starring Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine “Huggy” Hopkins, Khalil Kain and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Four friends growing up in Harlem spend every day skipping school, stealing records and playing at the arcade. After a series of events, they are involved in a foiled convenience store robbery which […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… This feature often asks whether some novels really are completely impossible to adapt for the screen. Usually diehard fans of much loved books being made into films are concerned primarily with one thing; the characters. They worry that the actors won’t fit their mental images […]

Stake Land, 2010. Directed by Jim Mickle. Starring Connor Paulo, Nick Damici, Danielle Harris and Kelly McGillis. SYNOPSIS: A vampire epidemic has swept across the nation and its up to vampire hunter Mister to escort young Martin to Canada, the New Eden where they can be safe. Stake Land is like Zombieland with vampires instead […]