A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2014. Directed by Julie Taymor. Starring Kathryn Hunter, David Harewood, Tina Benko, Lilly Englert, Mandi Masden, Jake Horowitz, Max Casella, and Zach Appelman. SYNOPSIS: Julie Taymor’s filming of her stage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s comedies, but under Julie Taymor’s direction, that dream becomes […]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson joins Chris Pine in Outlaw King
Deadline is reporting that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to join Chris Pine in Outlaw King, the new film from Starred Up and Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie. The Netflix film will see Pine as Robert the Bruce, the Scottish king and national hero who led his country during the First War of Scottish […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix may have cast its young(er) Jean Grey
It would appear that director Simon Kinberg and the folks over at 20th Century Fox have zeroed in on an actress to portray a young(er) Jean Grey in 2018’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. According to IMDb (via Screen Rant), Summer Fontana will take on the role that actresses Famke Janssen, Haley Ramm and Sophie Turner all filled before her. […]
Ariel Vromen to direct spy thriller The Angel for Netflix
Variety is reporting that Netflix has picked up The Angel, an upcoming spy thriller from director Ariel Vromen (The Iceman), which has been scripted by Vromen and David Arata (Children of Men) and is based upon Uri Bar-Joseph’s bestselling novel The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel. The $12 million-budgeted film depicts “he true […]
Chiller Films to release remake of Dementia 13
Chiller Films have announced that they are set to release a remake of the 1963 low-budget horror Dementia 13, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman. Per Coming Soon, the new Dementia 13 is directed by Richard LeMay (The Dark Rite, Naked As We Come) and features a […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer
The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi… Last night (or in the early hours of this morning, for those of us in the UK), Disney and Lucasfilm unleashed the second trailer for December’s massively-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Despite Rian Johnson’s recommendation that […]
Simon Kinberg teases Alpha Flight and Exiles for future X-Men movies
With Logan bringing the curtain down on Hugh Jackman’s time as Wolverine, it has been rumoured that 20th Century Fox will soon lay out its plans for the future of the X-Men franchise. We already know that X-Men: The New Mutants, Deadpool 2 and X-Men: Supernova are slated to go into production this year, while Gambit […]
Leslie Jones wants a role in Deadpool 2
As actress and comedian Leslie Jones revealed on Twitter yesterday, if it was up to her she’d be taking down bad guys and giving Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool’s potty mouth a run for its money in Deadpool 2. The actress sent a hilarious tweet to Reynolds, in which she very clearly stated that she wants to be […]
Movie Review – Tallulah (2016)
Tallulah, 2016. Written and directed by Sian Heder. Starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Zachary Quinto, John Benjamin Hickey and Uzo Aduba. SYNOPSIS: Tallulah tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter incites her to impulsively […]
Miles Teller open to returning for Fantastic Four sequel
20th Century Fox endured a rather torrid time with its Fantastic Four reboot; fans slammed the project for its casting choices, the studio had to suffer Josh Trank’s antics on set and his criticism of the movie upon release, and it was mauled by both critics and audiences alike, tanking – or ‘Tranking’ – at […]
