Following a previous article on movie villains, Liam Trim wonders whether BBC dramas Blackout and Line of Duty actually needed any bad guys at all… Spoiler warning: the following article contains spoilers from The Dark Knight Rises and the recent BBC drama series Blackout and Line of Duty. Earlier this year I wrote a feature […]

Liam Trim gets into the Olympic spirit by reviewing BBC drama Bert and Dickie… If you’re not excited about the Olympics yet then Bert and Dickie is perfect viewing for you. If you suspect you’re not capable of ever being excited about the Olympics, Bert and Dickie is perfect for you, too. If you fear […]

The Killing Jar, 2010. Written and Directed by Mark Young. Starring Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau, Amber Benson, Jake Busey, Danny Trejo, Kevin Gage, Lew Temple, Lindsey Axelsson and Talan Torriero. SYNOPSIS: A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors […]

The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the Man of Steel teaser trailers… Christopher Nolan’s (Memento, Inception) beloved Batman trilogy is finally finished. For many fans of the director, and the character of the Caped Crusader, the end is hard to take. Our reviewers here at Flickering Myth are proclaiming The Dark Knight […]

With The Avengers now a billion-dollar memory, Disney and Marvel Studios are already hard at work on ‘Phase Two’ of the Cinematic Universe, with Robert Downey Jr. currently filming Iron Man 3 under director Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and Game of Thrones-helmer Alan Taylor busy prepping Thor: The Dark World ahead of principal […]

It seems Christopher Nolan (Inception) is well and truly finished with the Batman franchise. Some are calling it the greatest trilogy of all time, and Nolan is more than intelligent enough to bow out at the top. In a foreward to a new book, The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy, Nolan has […]

Have you ever stopped to think about it? Perhaps 3D isn’t a medium. Perhaps it’s actually a genre; one with its own stylistics, conventions and tones. Where Film Noir exhibits the interplay between light and shadow, 3D makes things fly at your face. Funny or Die think as much in one of their latest skits: […]

The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. SYNOPSIS: After an eight year self-imposed exile following the death of Harvey Dent, The Batman must return to face the threat of Bane and the mystery of Selina Kyle. Batman […]

When Twentieth Century Fox put the brakes on the 24 feature film back in March, it was starting to look like Kiefer Sutherland’s counter-terrorist machine Jack Bauer may have choked out his last bad guy and given his last word. The official line was ‘budgetary concerns’ and ‘scheduling issues’, with sources indicating that Fox wanted […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Martin Hill, and Paul Butterworth; visual effects producers Michelle Eisenreich, and Unjoo Byars; executive producer Jason Bath, creative director Ahmet Ahmet, 3D cg supervisor Lee Nelson, 3D design lead Dong Ho Lee and Territory Founder / Director David Sheldon-Hicks… “I worked with Ridley [Scott] […]