Jawbone, 2017. Directed by Thomas Napper. Starring Johnny Harris, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: Boxer Jimmy McCabe (Johnny Harris) has hit rock bottom. A former youth boxing champion he agrees to an unlicensed fight up north, much to the disapproval of former friends Bill (Ray Winstone) and Eddie (Michael Smiley). When he begins […]
NBC calls time on Timeless as the axe falls after one season
NBC has announced that it has cancelled the time-travel drama series Timeless, pulling the plug on the show after one season.Creators Erik Kripke and Shawn Ryan took to social media to confirm the news, as well as revealing that production company Sony TV is currently looking for another outlet for a second season: Its true. […]
Zach McGowan’s casting in Ni‘ihau leads to whitewashing criticism
Zach McGowan (Black Sails, The 100) has been cast in the lead role in the World War II drama Ni‘ihau, which marks the feature directorial debut of Gabriel Robertson. Deadline reports that the film will tell the true story of Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island […]
Fox renews Gotham for a fourth season
Good news for Gotham fans, as Fox has officially confirmed that it has renewed the Batman prequel series for a fourth season.As EW reports, Gotham had been expected to receive a renewal, despite the fact that the current third season is averaging just 4.6 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the key 18-49 demo. […]
Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane join Reed Morano-directed music drama
According to Deadline, Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane have signed on to star in an untitled drama for director Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale, Meadowland), which was previously known as First Chair and has been scripted by Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right). The film will follow “a regimented, self-obsessed virtuoso violinist (Bridges) who […]
Fox 2000 producing WWII action thriller Liberty Road
Variety is reporting that Fox 2000 has picked up the rights to The Battered Bastards of Bastogne, George Koskimaki’s book about World War II’s Battle of Bastogne, and is adapting it for the big screen under the title of Liberty Road.The book follows the defense of Bastogne in Belgium between December 1944 and January 1945, as the Nazis […]
Judge Dredd live-action TV series Mega-City One announced
Watch out perps, the iconic British comic book character Judge Dredd is coming to the small screen, with IM Global and Rebellion teaming up for the live-action series Judge Dredd: Mega-City One.According to EW, the series ” is set in a future where the East Coast of the U.S. has become a crowded and crime-ridden megalopolis. […]
Wonder Woman score tracklisting offers up plot details
We’re just a few weeks away from the release of Wonder Woman, the fourth instalment of the DC Extended Universe, and today we have the official tracklisting for Rupert Gregson-Williams’ original motion picture score, which offers up plenty of details about what we can expect from the plot of the Amazon Princes’ solo movie.1. Amazons […]
R.I.P. Michael Parks (1940 – 2017)
American actor Michael Parks, a frequent collaborator of directors Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith has passed away aged 77, with Smith breaking the rather sad news on Instagram… https://www.instagram.com/p/BT6pvD2AONY/ Parks’ career began back in the 1960s and he scored his first major role as the star of the series Then Came Bronson, […]
Exclusive Interview: Alien: Covenant star Michael Fassbender
Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant opens in the UK this Friday, and in the build up to the release Flickering Myth Thomas Harris was fortunate enough to speak to some of the cast about their roles in the hotly-anticipated sci-fi horror.Yesterday we brought you interviews with Katherine Waterston (Daniels), Danny McBride (Tennessee) and Billy Crudup (Orma) […]
