While at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Trevor Hogg was able to take part in a group chat with Brian De Palma who spoke about working within the Hollywood studio system, the video game industry, screenwriting, collaborating with music composers, the remake of Carrie and filmmaking during the 1970s… “The studios offer you movies […]

Road to Hell, 2008. Directed by Albert Pyun.Starring Michael Michael Paré, Clare Kramer, Courtney Peldon, Roxy Gunn, Chris Reject, Ryan Hamman, Jon Mills and Paige Billiot. SYNOPSIS: Albert Pyun’s ode to Walter Hill’s Streets on Fire explores its hero’s dark journey through hell as he seeks the only thing that still matters to him: his […]

Luke Owen discusses the first trailer for Marvel’s Iron Man 3… The first stage of “Phase Two” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is underway with the release of the trailer for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 [watch it here]. Promising (figuratively) to ‘take Stark back to the cave’, the trailer certainly shows a much bleaker Iron […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Oliver Davis with GoldenEye… Oliver Davis hates to write in the first person, but for ‘favourite’ pieces, it’s kinda unavoidable. I was introduced to James Bond through Wednesday nights on ITV. They had a […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest prog of 2000 AD… After watching the new film Dredd 3D last month (I thought it was great, but check out Luke Owen and Rohan Morbey’s reviews here and here) I decided to get back into the original comic book 2000AD, starting with Prog 1801. I was a regular reader […]

The Devil Rides Out, 1968. Directed by Terence Fisher.Starring Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower and Nike Arrighi. SYNOPSIS: After rescuing his deceased friend’s son from a bloody Satanic ritual, the debonair Duc de Richleau  is pursued by a cult who will stop at nothing to destroy the Duc and his friends, even […]

Robert Downey Jr.’s Armored Avenger may be grabbing all the headlines at the moment as we await the arrival of the first trailer for the upcoming superhero sequel Iron Man 3, but it seems that Marvel Studios is already looking to get to work on ‘Phase Three’ of the Cinematic Universe, with a casting call […]

The Mummy’s Shroud, 1967. Directed by John Gilling.Starring André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck and Maggie Kimberly. SYNOPSIS: A renowned scientist and a team of expert archaeologists are on a journey to find the lost tomb of pharaoh Kah-to-Bey. Having ignored warnings of a deathly curse, the expedition unearths the pharaoh’s final resting place, accidentally […]

Rasputin: The Mad Monk, 1966. Directed by Don Sharp.Starring Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Richard Pasco and Suzan Farmer. SYNOPSIS: In pre-revolution St Petersburg, Russia, sinister monk Grigori Rasputin (Christopher Lee) proves that he has the unearthly power to ease the deranged and heal the sick, but at what price? It’s hard to know […]

Cockneys vs Zombies, 2012. Directed by Matthias Hoene.Starring Georgia King, Michelle Ryan, Lee Asquith-Coe, Alan Ford, Honor Blackman, Richard Briers, Harry Treadaway and Tony Gardner. SYNOPSIS: A group of cockney bank robbers fight for survival after the East End of London is overrun by a horde of zombies. Does anyone else think that the zombie […]