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Exclusive – Stan Bush talks about Michael Bay not using “The Touch” in his Transformers movies

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To mark the film’s 30th anniversary, we got in touch with rock singer Stan Bush to talk about The Transformers: The Movie‘s iconic theme song “The Touch”, and why it wasn’t used in the Michael Bay live-action movies. Bush had re-recorded “The Touch”, and it looks like it very nearly made it into the final […]

Interview: Everybody Wants Some!! star Tyler Hoechlin talks Richard Linklater, working with Tom Hanks and Fifty Shades sequels

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This Friday sees the long-awaited release of Everybody Wants Some!! [read our ★★★★★ review here] the new film from acclaimed writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before trilogy). Promoted as the “spiritual sequel” to Linklater’s 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, the new film charts the lives of a group of college baseball players navigate their way through […]

Exclusive trailer for found footage horror The Death of April

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Thanks to Terror Films, we’ve got our hands on an exclusive trailer for The Death of April, a new found footage horror from director Ruben Rodriguez and starring Katarina Hughes, Adam Lowder, and RayMartell Moore. Check out the trailer below ahead of the film’s digital release this December… Meagan Mullen, freshly moved into her East […]

Exclusive Interview: Legendary director Garry Marshall on Mother’s Day, holiday films and memories of Robin Williams

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With his new film Mother’s Day set for release in the UK this Friday (June 10th), Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sat down (well, on the phone at least) to chat with legendary director Garry Marshall (Overboard, Pretty Woman) to discuss his latest effort, some of his most famous projects, and working with the late Robin Williams. […]

Exclusive: The Paloni Show! producers on working with Gilbert Gottfried two weeks before his passing

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Adult Swim’s The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! not only treats viewers to wide array of unsettlingly funny and boldly animated horror shorts from a wide variety of up-and-coming animators — it also features one of the final performances from comedy giant Gilbert Gottfried. At New York Comic Con, Flickering Myth asked The Paloni Show! executive […]

Exclusive Interview – Troy Baker on playing Batman in Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

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Batman, Superman and various members of the Justice League are often the headliners in Warner Bros. Animation’s DC films, but their most recent film is turned not only on the sidekicks, but Batman and Superman’s sons Jonathan Kent and Damien Wayne. Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons follows Jon and Damian as they are the only […]

Exclusive Interview – Deborah Lynn Scott, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Avatar: The Way of Water costume designer

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Tai Freligh chats with costume designer Deborah Lynn Scott… The multi-award-winning Deborah Lynn Scott is a celebrated Hollywood veteran with a distinguished film career who spearheaded the costume design for the 1980s classic E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.  She is renowned for her infamous work on James Cameron’s Titanic which won her the Academy Award for […]

Exclusive interview with All-Star Batman’s Scott Snyder & John Romita Jr.

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Ricky Church chats with Scott Snyder & John Romita Jr about All-Star Batman… One of the most anticipated titles among DC Rebirth is All-Star Batman, written by Scott Snyder with art by John Romita Jr. The opening arc, ‘My Own Worst Enemy’, will see Batman and Two-Face going on a ‘road trip’ as Batman attempts […]

60th BFI London Film Festival – A United Kingdom Press Conference Report

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A look at the trailer for A United Kingdom, the opener at this year’s London Film Festival, might give the impression that its star, David Oyelowo, is in serious danger of being typecast.  After his star-making turn as Martin Luther King in Selma, he’s delivering more inspiring speeches as future ruler of Botswana, Seretse Khama. […]

Event Report – 2000 AD Prog 2000 signing at the Travelling Man, Manchester

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Last Wednesday – 28th September – marked a rather momentous day in British Comic Industry as 2000 AD celebrated a mammoth landmark with Prog 2000 – that’s correct 2000 issues of Earth’s mightiest comic! Not only was there a rather excellent celebratory comic released for this day [read Mark Allen’s review here], which saw the excellent […]