Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… “Stranded on the planet Neutrino in Dimension X with Fugitoid, the TMNT find themselves on unfamiliar ground. Recognizing a mutual threat in Krang, the TMNT join forces with the Neutrino Resistance Force and make a last-ditch effort to save the captured Neutrino Royalty! ” […]

Gary Collinson reviews the first issue of Justice League of America… “Green Lantern! Green Arrow! Catwoman! Katana! Vibe! Hawkman! Stargirl! They aren’t the world’s greatest super heroes—they’re the most dangerous! But why does a team like the JLA need to exist? What is their ultimate mission? And who is pulling the strings? Plus: Find out […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the first issue of Marvel NOW!’s Nova…The success of Marvel NOW! is readily apparent as their second  wave of titles launch and continue to be far more ‘hit’ than ‘miss’.  The revamped Nova is one of the most entertaining and endearing first issues I can remember.  Great characters, fantastic art well suited […]

David Bishop reflects on his 15 movie Godzilla marathon…If you’ve been reading fellow Flickering Myth writer Luke Owen’s various articles, you’ll know that Luke, our partner in crime Jon Lipscombe and I undertake a movie marathon each month. For February we chose Godzilla, or, more specifically, the first fifteen Godzilla movies. As there are twenty-nine altogether, we […]

Seconds out… Welcome the 5th annual Superhero Showdown! LAST TIME OUT… As always, we begin with a recap of the past year, which saw new instalments from the three highest-grossing superhero franchises – Batman, Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe – as well as another outing for Nicolas Cage’s Johnny Blaze in the sequel Ghost […]

We’re still waiting to hear confirmation on the reports that Harrison Ford is locked in for a return as Han Solo in Disney’s forthcoming sequel Star Wars: Episode VII, but at this point it’s starting to look increasingly likely that the new trilogy will include several familiar faces from the original Star Wars trilogy. In […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of IDW’s Judge Dredd…“Kidnappers are jacking the DNA of some of Mega-City One’s most elite citizens, then growing clones to torture on live TV — unless the elite pay up big-time. There’s only one Judge tough enough to stop them, and he’s just signed on to be the bagman. […]

Side by Side, 2012. Written and Directed by Christopher Kenneally. SYNOPSIS: A documentary investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. The struggle between the old and the new is something which has plagued cinema since the beginning; colour vs. black and white, sound vs. silent and widescreen vs. fullscreen. […]

Trevor Hogg chats with senior visual effects supervisor Dan Glass; visual effects supervisors Stéphane Ceretti, Matt Dessero, Geoffrey Hancock, Alessandro Cioffi, Florian Gellinger, Angela Barson, Clark Parkhurst, Russell Earl and Falk Gärtner; and executive visual effects producer Ismat Zaidi about their work on Cloud Atlas.  Be warned, there are spoilers… “In a strange way our work relationship isn’t […]