After starring alongside him in Argo and the upcoming Gone Girl, Scott McNairy is to reunite with Ben Affleck on the currently-in-production Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, with Deadline reporting that McNairy has joined the cast of the DC ensemble in a top secret role which nobody at Warner Bros. will confirm. Speculation is […]
Franco Nero returning as Django in Django Lives
After Quentin Tarantino revived the franchise in 2012 with Django Unchained, original star Franco Nero is set to return to the role of Django almost 50 years after the character’s first appearance in Sergio Corbucci 1966 Spaghetti Western (and almost thirty years since his second appearance in 1987’s Django Strikes Again!) , with The Hollywood […]
Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss join Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise
Luke Evans (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) have joined the cast of High-Rise, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley’s upcoming adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s classic British thriller novel. “Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast,” said Wheatley. “I’m really excited to be working with both of […]
The 21 Stupidest Things About The Transformers Franchise
With Transformers: Age of Extinction set to open in North America this week, Anthony Stokes looks at the 21 stupidest things about the Transformers franchise…. Like many American kids from the past three decades, I grew up with Transformers to some capacity. There were toys, video games, and a few different cartoons. That being said, […]
DVD Review – The Sea (2013)
The Sea, 2013. Directed by Stephen Brown. Starring Ciarán Hinds, Bonnie Wright, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Dillon, Sinéad Cusack, Missy Keating and Charlotte Rampling. SYNOPSIS: The story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife. Ciaran Hinds is […]
Anime Review – Ping Pong The Animation
Sam Halford reviews Ping Pong The Animation… The first thing that becomes most notable about Ping Pong The Animation is the art style; in the era of silk smooth computer animation coming from both the West and the East, something that strives away from the norm is certainly visually distinctive. This series resembles more Korean […]
R.I.P. Eli Wallach (1915-2014)
American actor Eli Wallach has passed away aged 98, it has been announced. The character actor, whose credits includes The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, had enjoyed a career spanning more than six decades, and in 2010 he was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award for his achievements in […]
Steven R. McQueen has not been cast as Nightwing in Arrow
If you follow The Vampire Diaries star Steven R. McQueen on Twitter, then chances are you’ll have noticed his various teases suggesting that he’s could be set to join the cast of The CW’s hit superhero show Arrow in the role of Nightwing. However it seems he’s just been trying to drum up support, with […]
Nathan Fillion’s Guardians of the Galaxy character revealed?
A few days ago, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn confirmed that Firefly and Castle star Nathan Fillion is set to make his long-awaited debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with “a very small fun cameo” in the upcoming superhero space opera. Gunn also shot down speculation that Fillion would portray Richard Rider – […]
FMTV Movie Myths – Is There a Time Traveller in Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus?
Yesterday we announced the launch of Flickering Myth TV, a new partnership between ourselves and Trident Vision Media, the folk behind the national UK television shows Wrestle Talk TV and BWC British Wrestling Round-Up. And now we bring you the debut episode of our first series, Movie Myths, where Flickering Myth co-editor Oliver Davis will […]
