Luke Owen delves into the history of Squirrel Girl… With comic book movies on the mind of every executive in the Hollywood system, it’s become standard practice for interviewers to ask actors if they’d like to star in a Marvel or DC film. It’s just a thing now. We at Flickering Myth have been guilty […]
Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 Review – Cell (2016)
Cell, 2016 Directed by Tod Williams Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Clark Sarullo, Ethan Andrew Casto, Owen Teague, Stacy Keach SYNOPSIS: When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England. Although Steven King is often hailed as the greatest horror […]
Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 Review – Beyond the Gates (2016)
Beyond the Gates, 2016 Directed by Jackson Stewart Starring Brea Grant, Chase Williamson, Graham Skipper, Jesse Merlin and Barbara Crampton SYNOPSIS: Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father’s video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game dubbed ‘Beyond The Gates’ […]
Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 Review – Knucklebones (2016)
Knucklebones, 2016 Written and directed by Mitch Wilson Starring Julin, Justin Arnold, Cameron Deane Stewart, Todd Jenkins, Summer Moore and Tom Zembrod SYNOPSIS: A group of bored college students unleash a murderous demon while playing a dice game made from human knucklebones. Everyone remembers those halcyon days of walking through the video stores and renting the […]
Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 Review – 31 (2016)
31, 2016 Written and directed by Rob Zombie Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Elizabeth Daily, Meg Foster, Richard Brake, Torsten Voges, Lew Temple, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jeff Daniel Phillips, David Ury, Pancho Moler and Malcolm McDowell SYNOPSIS: Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a […]
Second Opinion – Suicide Squad (2016)
Suicide Squad, 2016. Directed by David Ayer. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, Jim Parrack, Ben Affleck, Karen Fukuhara, Common, Ike Barinholtz and Scott Eastwood SYNOPSIS: A secret government agency recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in […]
Blu-ray Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition, 2016. Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Scoot McNairy, Tao Okamoto, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ray Fisher, Jena Malone, Ezra Miller and Callan Mulvey. SYNOPSIS: In “Batman v Superman: Dawn […]
Till All Are One: A Production History of The Transformers: The Movie
Luke Owen sits down with The Transformers: The Movie director Nelson Shin, composer Vince DiCola and “The Touch” singer Stan Bush to find out how the movie got made… In 1980, Takara Toys launched a series of action figures named Daiakuron (Diaclone), transforming vehicles and robots which were piloted by another of their toylines Mikuroman […]
Blu-ray Review – The Witch (2015)
The Witch, 2015. Written and Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson. SYNOPSIS: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. Much to the chagrin of its fans, the horror genre is often incorrectly dismissed […]
14 rumours about the troubled Ghostbusters reboot production
Luke Owen sifts through the rumours… We’re only a few days away from Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters arriving in cinemas, and there has certainly been a lot said about it already. From its first trailer confusing the message, to people rejecting the idea of a female Slimer, Ghostbusters is going to have to try […]
