Flickering Myth

Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games

Movie Review – Misconduct (2016)

by

Misconduct, 2016. Directed by Shintaro Shimosawa. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Julia Stiles and Alice Eve. SYNOPSIS: A hotshot lawyer takes on a corrupt pharmaceutical kingpin and winds up neck deep in a murky world of dodgy dealings and double crosses.   Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins starring in a late-night […]

Blu-ray Review – The Gunman (2015)

by

The Gunman, 2015. Directed by Pierre Morel. Starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Jasmine Trinca, Mark Rylance and Peter Franzen. SYNOPSIS: Eight years after a hit on the Congo mining minister, the assassin finds that he is now the target in a game of cat and mouse. Spurred on by the inexplicable success of […]

TV Review – BoJack Horseman Season 3

by

Jake Peffer reviews the third season of BoJack Horseman… Season 3 finds BoJack on the awards circuit after his film, where he plays Secretariat, earns him Oscar buzz. Princess Carolyn gets comfortable at her new agency but finds it to be harder than she was expecting. Todd starts his own business involving for women drivers […]

Arrow Season 4 Episode 23 Review – ‘Schism’

by

Jessie Robertson reviews the season four finale of Arrow… Schism: adj. “Split or division between strongly opposed parties” This season on Arrow, we’ve seen a lot happen. Now that we’re at the season finale, it seems like familiar territory: – Final showdown between Oliver and big bad of the season- Check – Cataclysmic event transpiring […]

Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #4

by

Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #4… As the pages closed last month [read our review here] we witnessed the voiceless Kingdom-Brown family – in the UK – regain the power of communication via the means of song, thanks to some smart thinking of Sally and Susan McDuff.  With this Dirk […]

Blu-ray Review – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

by

X-Men: Apocalypse, 2016. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn and Lucas Till. SYNOPSIS: After the re-emergence of the world’s first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.  X-Men: Apocalypse arrives on Blu-ray […]

Second Opinion – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

by

X-Men Apocalypse, 2016. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Issac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Till and Kodi Smit-McPhee. SYNOPSIS: With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. Going to see a […]

Movie Review – Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016)

by

Kindergarten Cop 2, 2016. Directed by Don Michael Paul. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Fiona Vroom, Aleks Paunovic, Andre Tricoteux, Bill Bellamy and Sarah Strange. SYNOPSIS: Assigned to recover sensitive stolen data, a gruff FBI agent goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, but the school’s liberal, politically correct environment is more than he bargained for. “It’s not […]

Movie Review – K-Shop (2016)

by

K-Shop, 2016. Directed by Dan Pringle. Starring: Ziad Abaza, Reece Noi, Scot Williams and Ewen MacIntosh. SYNOPSIS: Student Salah loses his father after an altercation with a gang of drunken customers. Overcome with grief, the pressure of his studies and his father’s failing business, Salah, in a modern Sweeney Todd tale, wages war against the […]