Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Simon Moore with You Only Live Twice… Face it. There is no objective reason to love You Only Live Twice. This is not a film you come to see in film school, where you […]

Way back in 2007, New Line Cinema secured the movie rights to Microsoft and Epic Games’ hit third-person sci-fi action shooter Gears of War, hiring screenwriter Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) to develop a script with a view to releasing a big-budget adaptation in the […]

Ill Manors, 2012. Written and Directed by Ben Drew.Starring Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Mem Ferda and Anouska Mond.   SYNOPSIS: As a war rages between rival drug dealers and the police, eight characters struggle for survival amid the cycle of violence. I am going to begin this review by saying Plan B should […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, Kyle Chandler, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Zeljko Ivanek, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: During the Iranian revolution, a CIA agent concocts a plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. In 1980, […]

Back in 2007, Warner Bros. hired director George Miller (Mad Max) to work on an adaptation of DC Comics’ Justice League, with Miller subsequently turning to a cast of up-and-coming actors to portray the legendary superhero team in what was planned as a big-budget motion-capture animation. Despite the studio pulling the plug on the project […]

As we all know, Hollywood hasn’t got the best of track records when it comes to adapting video games. However, Fox is now hoping to buck that trend on the small screen with a television series based upon Electronic Arts’ first-person-shooter Battlefield: Bad Company, which will take the form of “an hourlong action comedy” and […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Martin Deer with Thunderball… When I saw the notice pop up on the Flickering Myth Facebook page for us to pick our “favourite Bond” to review in the build-up to Skyfall I immediately typed “Thunderball” – […]

The Lost Episode, 2012. Directed by Michael Rooker.Starring Haylie Duff, Beverley Mitchell, Amanda Dunn, J. LaRose, Jimmy Palumbo, Robb Pruitt, Michael McKiddy and Michael Rooker. SYNOPSIS: Years after its closure, a local TV crew return to Pennhurst Asylum, hoping to capture evidence of paranormal activity. Instead, they discover something completely unexpected and find themselves fighting […]

Hell Is a City, 1960. Directed by Val Guest.Starring Stanley Baker, Maxine Audley and Billie Whitelaw. SYNOPSIS: World-weary police inspector Harry Martineau is on the trail of tough escaped convict and jewel thief Don Starling. His search ends up in Manchester, where the two men play a cat and mouse game of chase across the […]

Stolen, 2012. Directed by Simon West.Starring Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Malin Akerman, Danny Huston, Sami Gayle, Edrick Browne, Mark Valley and M.C. Gainey. SYNOPSIS: A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi. Last year Nicolas Cage had four films released, three of […]