Back in January filmmaker Kevin Smith made quite a stir at Sundance when he announced that he’d be self-distributing his latest film, the horror Red State, through the newly-formed SModcast Pictures, before going on to shock fans by stating that his next effort – the ice-hockey comedy drama Hit Somebody – would be his final […]

Liam Trim takes in a double-bill of ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Super 8’… It’s been a while since I went to the cinema. But it feels much longer than it actually is. That’s because it’s summer blockbuster season and every week a new big gun toting production swaggers into town. Stay […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood – “Spellbound”… This week we’ll start things off a little different. Since the episode began with how last week’s ended… with Jessica about to be turned into a very crispy vampire by the sun. Our resident hero, and […]

If you’re a regular on this site you may remember I posted an article here on Flickering Myth back in May shamelessly promoting my book, Holy Franchise, Batman!, which was picked up for publication by the lovely people at Robert Hale Publishing. Well some three months and 100,000 words later and the book is almost […]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2011. Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Starring James Franco, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, Tyler Labine and Freida Pinto. SYNOPSIS: In San Francisco, experiments with genetic engineering sees an ape develop super-intelligence before rising up and leading a revolution against his human masters. The success of […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… So, another week, another flood of leaks from the set of The Dark Knight Rises, beginning with video footage from the shoot at Heinz Field which drew fire from fans due to the ‘wacky’ voice Tom Hardy has adopted […]

Lock Up (Spanish: Cruzando el límite), 2010. Directed by Xavi Giménez. Starring Marcel Borràs, Carlos Cuevas, Adolfo Fernández and Cristina Dilla. SYNOPSIS: A troubled teen is admitted to a high-security rehabilitation centre in an attempt to curb his dangerously wayward behaviour. What a week it has been for the common folk of England. A week […]

Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011. Directed by Joe Johnston. Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: During World War II, Steve Rogers is turned into the heroic super-soldier Captain America. In a summer schedule which has been jam-packed full of sequels, […]

With filming underway on The Dark Knight Rises it’s becoming increasingly difficult to avoid all of the leaks coming out of the production, with a new set photo or video seemingly cropping up every five minutes. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t blown away by the spy shots of Tom Hardy […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of Page and Screen… Some stories will always be set in certain times and places. It’s impossible to imagine most Dickensian tales grounded in a world without workhouses and industrial poverty, for example. Similarly Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes would feel out of place investigating crime anywhere other than […]