Triple 9, 2016. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Casey Affleck, Wood Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Clifton Collins Jr., Kate Winslet, Gal Gadot and Michael K. Williams. SYNOPSIS: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across […]
Movie Review – London Has Fallen (2016)
London Has Fallen, 2016 Directed by Babak Najafi. Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Radha Mitchell, Patrick Kennedy, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo, Charlotte Riley, Shivani Ghai, Mehdi Dehbi, Waleed Zuaiter, Alon Aboutboul, Jackie Earle Haley, and Michael Wildman. SYNOPSIS: In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to […]
Diego Luna joins the Flatliners remake alongside Ellen Page
Having finished his work on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Wrap is reporting that Diego Luna is in talks for the lead role in the upcoming remake of the 1990 sci-fi thriller Flatliners, where he would star alongside Ellen Page (X-Men: Days of Future Past). The new film is being directed by Niels […]
Movie Review – The Forest (2016)
The Forest, 2016. Directed by Jason Zada. Starring Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt and Yuho Yamashita. SYNOPSIS: A woman heads into Japan’s notorious Suicide Forest to find her missing twin sister, only to find herself confronted by supernatural terror. The first real horror film of the year is something of a mixed bag. On the one […]
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is everything wrong with reboots
Luke Owen on the Ghostbusters reboot… Here’s a fairly unpopular opinion: I quite like reboots and remakes. Just as theatre directors have put their own stamp on the works of William Shakespeare, reboots and remakes allow directors to put their own spin on existing material and come at it from a new perspective. Two of […]
Kevin Costner joins space race drama Hidden Figures
Kevin Costner has signed on to appear alongside Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in 20th Century Fox’s space drama Hidden Figures, Variety has revealed. The project follows Katherine Johnson (Henson), “a brilliant African-American mathematician who, along with her colleagues Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson, served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations […]
Ghostbusters reboot trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction
The Flickering Myth Team React… Who you gonna call? Well if Sony and Paul Feig have their way it will be the reboot of Ghostbusters which lands in cinemas in a couple of months. The long-awaited trailer was released online yesterday [more footage was released here], and the Flickering Myth writing and editorial staff felt it […]
Josh Brolin and Miles Teller cast in Joseph Kosinski’s No Exit
Variety is reporting that Josh Brolin and Miles Teller have signed on to star in No Exit, a firefighter action movie from Tron: Legacy and Oblivion helmer Joseph Kosinski. No Exit has been written by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and will tell the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, “a group of firefighters […]
Devon Terrell to play young Barack Obama in biopic Barry
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Devon Terrell (Codes of Conduct) has signed on to play a young Barack Obama in the upcoming biopic Barry, where he will star alongside Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch). The site reports that the film will revolve around Obama’s time as a college student and takes place in 1981 as […]
Green Lantern may not feature in the DC Extended Universe until after Justice League
It looks like Green Lantern fans have a lengthy wait before they see the character making his DC Extended Universe debut, with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice producer Greg Silverman revealing to EW that he won’t be appearing in Justice League Part One, and may not even feature until the Green Lantern Corps movie in […]
