Battleship, 2012. Directed by Peter Berg. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Liam Neeson, Brooklyn Decker and Tadanobu Asano. SYNOPSIS: A fleet of battleships attempt to thwart the destructive goals of an amarda of extra-terrestrial origin. Despite the amount of negative press surrounding this movie in the run-up to its release, I actually found myself […]

The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Bettany. SYNOPSIS: When the world comes under threat, S.H.I.E.L.D. assembles a team consisting of […]

Simon Moore reviews the season finale of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… It’d be fair to say Napoleon Dynamite has come a long way since our re-introduction to his lanky, bear-slippered, underpantsed self in that first title sequence six weeks ago. Our boy has developed some skills, romanced his fair share of ladies, even dallied […]

Liam Trim ponders whether outdated villains at the cinema are more than a joke… Marvel’s Avengers Assemble opens this week to unexpectedly unanimous rave reviews. According to Flickering Myth’s very own five star assessment, Avengers Assemble (or simply The Avengers for our American cousins) “has everything”. Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Cabin in […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The King’s Speech, 2010. Directed by Tom Hooper. Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce and Timothy Spall. The King’s Speech is the Oscar-winning historical drama that follows the story […]

Liam Trim on why Steve McQueen’s Shame should never be censored… Steve McQueen’s (Hunger) film about a sex addict in New York, played by Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class, Prometheus), will not be shown in Singapore. Censors there have demanded that certain scenes be cut. In particular, a graphic threesome involving Fassbender’s protagonist Brandon Sullivan […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Visual Effects Supervisors Nick Davis, Gary Brozenich, Olivier Dumont and Bryan Hirota as well as CG Supervisor Martin Chamney about their work on Wrath of the Titans… “It certainly changed the stylistic approach towards them,” states Visual Effects Supervisor Nick Davis (The Dark Knight) who collaborated with filmmaker Louis Leterrier on […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Town, 2010. Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively, Jeremy Renner, Chris Cooper and Pete Postlethwaite. The Town is a well crafted crime story adapted from the Chuck Hogan novel Prince of […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of the Dark Knight had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Having produced four Batman movies in the space of eight years, Warner Bros. found their lucrative feature film series lying in tatters following the disastrous release of the Joel Schumacher-directed sequel Batman […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Fighter, 2010. Directed by David O. Russell. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. The Fighter is the amazing true story of the unsuccessful professional boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Wahlberg), his rise to become the […]