Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation, 2018. Dear Basketball Directed by Glen Keane. Starring Kobe Bryant. You needn’t be crazy about basketball to get something out of this ethereal adaptation of Kobe Bryant’s retirement letter to The Players’ Tribune, which is rendered via watercolour while accompanied by Bryant himself narrating his own letter. There’s plenty of […]
Movie Review – Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action, 2018. DeKalb Elementary Directed by Reed Van Dyk. Starring Tara Riggs and Bo Mitchell. Based on an actual 911 call made to an Atlanta, Georgia high school, DeKalb Elementary is a taut, gut-wrenching thriller revolving around a mentally ill, machine gun-totting young man (Mitchell) and the quick-thinking secretary (Riggs) who […]
Sleep No More with the trailer for horror 200 Hours
A poster and trailer have arrived online for director Phillip Guzman’s (Dead Awake) upcoming horror 200 Hours. The film is set during the 1980’s and sees a sleep deprivation experiment go horribly wrong on a test subject while trying out a new drug to cure sleep; check them out here… A group of graduate students […]
Fourth Cloverfield movie Overlord still planned for theatrical release
Netflix dropped a huge surprise this past Sunday by releasing The Cloverfield Paradox, with the streaming service picking up the rights to the J.J. Abrams-produced sci-fi after its planned theatrical release date had been pushed back on several occasions. According to THR, the deal was worth in excess of $50 million, and immediately put the […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the Venom teaser trailer
The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on the first teaser trailer for Venom… As Sony pushes full steam ahead with its plans for a shared Spider-Man universe (sans Spider-Man, apparently), the studio give us our very first glimpse of the launch title this week with the arrival of a teaser trailer for Venom, […]
Michael Bay may direct Lobo movie for DC
Having wrapped up one franchise with Transformers, it looks like filmmaker Michael Bay may be set to join another, with THR reporting that Warner Bros. wants the director for its long-gestating DC Comics adaptation Lobo. According to the site, the studio is yet to begin official talks with Bay, but is keen to have him […]
Donald Glover on getting advice from Billy Dee Williams for Lando role in Solo: A Star Wars Story
The first trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story may have been met with a mixed reaction [read the thoughts of our writing team here], but one aspect that seemed to go down very well with fans was the fleeting glimpses of Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly after the launch of […]
Jordan Peele “seriously considering” a sequel to Get Out
Actor and comedian-turned-filmmaker Jordan Peele certainly scored with his feature directorial debut Get Out, with the Blumhouse-produced horror proving to be a hit with audiences, critics, and even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, who nominated it for four Oscars – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya). […]
Solo: A Star Wars Story looks great, but some have already made up their minds and will hate it regardless
Samuel Brace on Solo: A Star Wars Story… Thank the Lord. Solo: A Star Wars Story at last has a teaser (or two) and the fears of the rational mind can be put to rest, at least for now, as the film about which so much has been said, actually looks pretty terrific. And I […]
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler originally wanted Kraven the Hunter to appear
Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa finds himself going up against several villains in Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster Black Panther, but it seems that director Ryan Coogler originally wanted to feature one other fan-favourite bad guy in Kraven the Hunter! “Being a Marvel fan, you want to grab all the characters,” Coogler told Yahoo! Movies. “You realise there’s contractual things. You […]
