We’ve been anxiously awaiting the appointment of a director on Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII for a couple of months now, but while we wait to see who’ll be handed the reins of the next Star Wars trilogy, Vulture are reporting that Disney has turned to Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) to direct a standalone Star […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Django Unchained by selecting their favourite Quentin Tarantino movies; next up is Martin Deer with 1994’s Pulp Fiction… pulp /’palp / n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matterand being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished […]

During the Dredd 3D panel at the London Film and Comic Con last July, screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later) spoke about the possibility of developing a trilogy around 2000 AD’s iconic lawman of the future, stating that the Karl Urban-headlined reboot would need to gross over $50 million in the U.S. for him to […]

Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), 1968. Directed by Ferinando Baldi. Starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Jose Torres and Pinuccio Ardia. SYNOPSIS: After the cold-blooded execution of his wife, a lone gun-slinger, Django (Hill), becomes a vigilant for a town at the mercy of his wife’s murderer. With increasing publicity for […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Godzilla… “Boxer is cornered by the government and Godzilla is a giant sized X-factor, wrecking everyone’s plans. Sides are switched, lives are lost… and then the unthinkable happens. The devastating third act of this Godzilla epic begins now!” I’ve been incredibly harsh on this series for some time […]

Nowhere to Go, 1958. Directed by Seth Holt.Starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries. SYNOPSIS: After breaking out of prison, a thief and conman attempts to flee the country only to end up on the run in the Welsh countryside. Don’t expect to sympathise with a man like Paul […]

360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: An international look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships, that ultimately intersect and interact. . 360 is a drama of ambitious scope, that skips through themes […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. First up, Rohan Morbey with 1984’s The Terminator… Before he sold out with family films like Junior, Twins and Jingle All the Way, or sub-par action films such as The 6th […]

Shadow Dancer, 2012. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, Stuart Graham and Martin McCann. SYNOPSIS: Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted […]

Kirsty Capes reviews the second episode of Downton Abbey season 3… It’s episode two and time for Edith’s wedding to Sir Anthony Strallan. Two weddings in two episodes, well aren’t we spoilt? Obviously Upstairs are getting geared up for the wedding whilst Downstairs is in chaos. And on top of all of this, we have […]