Following the box office success of The Jungle Book, director Jon Favreau is currently hard at work on bringing another of Disney’s animated classics back to the big screen with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King, after which he’ll be returning to the world of Rudyard Kipling for The Jungle Book 2. Speaking to […]
Good Concept, Bad Delivery
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]
Banning Films Always Backfires
Neil Calloway argues that Russian censors have made a mistake… While you were getting upset that your favourite film hadn’t been nominated for an Oscar – some of us are still annoyed that Under Siege was never recognised by the Academy – you may have missed the news that The Death of Stalin has been […]
Ed Helms rules out the possibility of The Hangover 4
Well, it seems there is a god after all… Having been subjected to two atrocious sequels, we can now breathe a sigh of relief over the prospect of having to sit through another Hangover. Speaking to CinePop this week, Ed Helms – who starred alongside Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis in the three movies – […]
The Matrix’s Neo gets a Movie Masterpiece Series figure from Sideshow
Sideshow has revealed its sixth scale Neo Movie Masterpiece Series figure which is based on the likeness of Keanu Reeves in the classic sci-fi action film The Matrix. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $235.00 and is expected to ship January-March 2019; take a look at the official promotional images here… SUPPORT FLICKERING […]
The Invisible Man screenwriter confirms his Dark Universe exit
Universal Pictures certainly had high hopes for its Dark Universe – a shared cinematic universe featuring its Classic Monsters – with the studio assembling a host of A-list talent for projects such as Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Wolf Man. Unfortunately, said universe didn’t get off to […]
Watch the trailer for Status Update starring Ross Lynch and Olivia Holt
With less than two weeks to go until its UK release, the first trailer has debuted for director Scott Speer’s upcoming comedy Status Update which stars Ross Lynch, Olivia Holt, Harvey Gullien, Courtney Eaton, Wendi McLendon-Covey, John Michael Higgins, Rob Riggle, Famke Janssen, and Josh Ostrovsky; check it out here… When Kyle (Ross Lynch), a social […]
Movie Review – Flay (2017)
Flay, 2017. Directed by Eric Pham. Starring Ella Lamont, Dalton E. Gray, Johnny Walter, Violett Beane, A. Michael Baldwin, and Patricia Cane. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her mother, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother, and those around her from a malevolent faceless spirit. Possessed objects are no stranger to the horror genre […]
We can expect a Nightwing movie update in February
Back in February 2017, it was announced that The LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay is set to take the reins of a Nightwing movie, but – like many of the proposed DC Extended Universe features – the film has been absent from Warner’s last few DC Films slate announcements. However, McKay has now taken […]
James Cameron on his Avatar sequels, pushing boundaries and taking risks
James Cameron is a busy man at the moment, with the filmmaker currently in the middle of his ambition plan to shoot FOUR sequels to 2009’s sci-fi blockbuster Avatar. Nevertheless, he managed to take some time out of his schedule to speak to IGN about his new TV show Visionaries: James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, […]
