Ted, 2012. Directed by Seth MacFarlane. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale and Giovanni Ribisi. SYNOPSIS: Years after his childhood wish comes true, a grown man finds himself saddled with a potty-mouthed teddy bear. Seth MacFarlane is a man who comes with a pre-existing audience from his wildly successful show (that kept […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2 with an overdose of explosive action cinema, beginning with ‘The Dolph Lundgren Rampage’… Over the course of the next 6 weeks, I will be getting myself ready for the action spectacular that is The Expendables 2. This will be possibly the manliest film ever made, […]

According to Deadline, director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) is looking to get back behind the camera after his recent acting excursion in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, entering negotiations with Warner Bros.’ to direct the upcoming Dracula re-imagining Harker, which is set to star Russell Crowe (Les Miserables, Man of Steel) as Bram Stoker’s legendary […]

Anghus Houvouras dissects The Amazing Spider-Man’s ‘broken promise’… Spider-Man fans seem deeply divided on the ending to The Amazing Spider-Man, specifically the final moments dealing with the future of Gwen Stacy’s relationship with Peter Parker. Here’s some obsessive analysis over one of the fundamental differences between Sam Raimi’s take on the character, and Marc Webb’s […]

Must I really spell it out for them? No! No! No! Warner Bros. may be looking to replicate the success of Marvel’s The Avengers with their own big screen DC Comics team-up Justice League, but they’ll have to do so without the golden touch of Christopher Nolan. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Nolan once again reaffirmed […]

Paul Tanter, the writer/producer/director behind the Jack Says trilogy and new film The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, talks to Flickering Myth’s Luke Graham about breaking into the industry, making movies and violence in films… Luke Graham: Hi Paul, thanks for agreeing to answer a few questions. I saw The Rise and […]

Although filming has wrapped on J.J. Abrams ‘Untitled Star Trek Sequel‘, we know very little about the plot for the follow-up to the acclaimed 2009 series reboot, and despite the fact we’ve seen spy pictures featuring Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain squaring off against Zachary Quinto’s Spock, the identity of the Sherlock star’s character has remained a […]

With The Dark Knight Rises just around the corner, Martin Deer revisits Batman Begins… In the build-up to the July 20th release of the final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s incredible Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, I wanted to take a look back at how we got here and share my feelings on what are […]

Absentia, 2011. Written and Directed by Mike Flanagan. Starring Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Morgan Peter Brown, Justin Gordon, James Flanagan and Doug Jones. SYNOPSIS: A woman and her sister come to suspect that a pedestrian tunnel could be linked to a series of neighborhood disappearances, including that of her own husband seven years […]

The Amazing Spider-Man (don’t forget the hyphen) came out a couple of weeks ago now and, like Prometheus, people are going a bit marmite over it. Here’s a few brief reviews from both sides of the crusty, yellow-capped pot to get you in the dialectic mood. They’re from the YouTube comments section to TASM’s trailer, […]