High-Rise, 2015. Directed By Ben Wheatley. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy and Peter Ferndinando. SYNOPSIS: Life for the residents in a tower block spirals into chaos and debauchery following a power cut. Adapting J.G. Ballard’s seminal dystopian novel High-Rise for the big screen was a long process: […]
Henry Cavill on Superman’s humanity: “He still cannot do everything”
With less than three weeks to go before Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theatres, promotion for the film is fully underway. Between features in Empire Magazine, comic variant covers or parodies on Jimmy Kimmel, there are not many places you can go without seeing something related to Batman v Superman. In the latest issue […]
Chewbacca to appear in young Han Solo Star Wars spinoff movie
Well, this won’t come as a surprise at all, but Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has confirmed that Chewbacca is set to appear in 2018’s young Han Solo Star Wars Anthology movie. “We have other [Star Wars films] in the works, including one, which is an origin story about Han Solo and Chewie,” said Iger during […]
Nominations for the MTV Movie Awards 2016 announced
The Oscars have been and gone, but award season isn’t quite over yet, as MTV has announced the nominations for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards; check them out here… MOVIE OF THE YEAR · Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) · Creed (Warner Bros.) · Deadpool (20th Century Fox) · Jurassic World […]
Animated Ghostbusters hires Fletcher Moules as director
Hot on the heels of the recently released trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters comes news from The Hollywood Reporter that Sony Pictures Animation has hired a director for its animated Ghostbusters movie, a project that was announced last fall as they seek to expand the Ghostbusters franchise. Fletcher Moules has been given the job to […]
Movie Review – 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane, 2016. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr. and John Goodman. SYNOPSIS: After surviving a car accident, a woman wakes up in an underground cellar. She fears she has been abducted by a survivalist, who tells her he saved her life, and that a worldwide chemical attack has […]
Jake Johnson and Annabelle Wallis join Tom Cruise in The Mummy reboot
According to The Hollywood Reporter, New Girl star Jake Johnson is the latest actor to join Tom Cruise (Edge of Tomorrow) and Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) in the upcoming reboot of The Mummy and Universal’s larger cinematic monster universe. The shared universe, which the studio seems to be building in a fashion similar to the Marvel […]
Leslie Jones threatens to quit Twitter over Ghostbusters hate
The first trailer for the Ghostbusters reboot hasn’t gone down all that smoothly with fans of the series or certain aspects of the movie going audience [read the Flickering Myth reaction here]. As was probably to be expected, Paul Feig and his cast of new Ghostbusters have been getting a lot of abuse on social […]
DVD Review – Experimenter (2015)
Experimenter, 2015. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Anthony Edwards, John Palladino, Jim Gaffigan, Harley Ware, John Leguizamo and Anton Yelchin. SYNOPSIS: In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority. Michael Almereyda’s biopic about Stanley Milgram’s […]
Movie Review – Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Kung Fu Panda 3, 2016. Directed by Jennifer Yuh and Alessandro Carloni. Featuring the voice talents of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, J.K. Simmons, Seth Rogan, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Kate Hudson. SYNOPSIS: Cuddly kung fu fighting panda Po has reached the heights of Dragon Warrior and is responsible for protecting […]
