Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead, 1994. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Angus Scrimm. SYNOPSIS: The cross-country hunt for the mortician continues as the plot thickens. After a brief montage which attempts to clue in any audiences that may have missed Phantasm (1979) and Phantasm II (1988), […]

The Flickering Myth writing team debate Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Beware of spoilers within… The dust has finally settled on Ridley Scott’s (Blade Runner, Gladiator) not-just-a-prequel-to-Alien, Prometheus. Billed as one of the movie events of the 21st century in some quarters, let alone just 2012, Prometheus had an awful lot of hype to live up to. […]

There’s just over a week to go until the UK release of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen, and a splendid new review has been posted by Mark “RorMachine” Cassidy of ComicBookMovie.com, who has been kind enough to give it five stars, describing the book as “by far the most comprehensive […]

Luke Graham continues his episode by episode review of E4’s latest American sitcom… After what I felt was a relatively weak episode, the latest episode of Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 not only picked things up, but might be the best episode so far. The strength of The Wedding was how it changed […]

Rock of Ages, 2012. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Cranston, Malin Akerman, Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige. SYNOPSIS: A small town girl moves to Los Angeles with ambitions to make it as a singer. In 2007, director Adam Shankman had a […]

Earlier this year, the French-owned Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis announced that they’d be bringing the celebrated movie serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the small screen, and now Deadline has revealed that they plan to follow this with another series based around the comic book character Barbarella, made famous of course by […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises… “Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes [The Dark Knight Rises] a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” says director Christopher Nolan on his plans for the third and final installment of his Batman movie […]

Cosmopolis, 2012. Written and Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand, Samantha Morton and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: A journey across Manhattan in a stretch limousine turns into an eventful day in the life of a young billionaire asset manager. David Cronenberg is anything but a […]

Luke Owen isn’t ready to be forced over to the Blu-Ray format… This may sound like sacrilege coming from someone who claims to love film, but I’ve not moved over to Blu-Ray yet and don’t intend to do so soon. I don’t think the picture quality is *that* much of an improvement to warrant spending […]

Chernobyl Diaries, 2012. Directed by Bradley Parker. Starring Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and Dimitri Diatchenko. SYNOPSIS: Six ‘extreme’ tourists discover they are not alone during an illegal visit to the abandoned city of Prypiat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I’ll be honest; I went to […]