It was the news heard around the world when Warner Bros. announced Ben Affleck as their Bruce Wayne and the Dark Knight for 2015’s Batman vs. Superman. While some have reacted well to it (the Flickering Myth writing staff are positive about the news), the news has been met with some very negative reactions from […]

Anghus Houvouras asks whether anyone cares about The Fifth Estate…. There was a day and age where breaches of trust perpetrated by Governments believing themselves to be above the law would have felt more like fiction than fact.  The kind of stuff you’d find in a Tom Clancy novel or the plot to the latest […]

With filming complete on Marvel’s space epic Guardians of the Galaxy, we are finally getting our first drips of information about  Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Raccoon. Having been in London to film Parks and Recreation’s 100th episode, Chris Pratt has revealed some information on what exactly Rocket Raccoon will bring to the film… “You think it’s […]

Andy Naylor reviews The Bureau: XCOM Declassified… The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is a 3rd person shooter video game based in the XCOM universe. It’s developed by 2K Marin and you play as Agent William Carter as he battles an alien invasion in 1960s America. For those of you that have read my reviews since I […]

Pi, 1998. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.Starring Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis and Ben Shenkman. SYNOPSIS: A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. Rewind to 1998 and Pi was only a suggestion of the potential of the then 29 year old writer-director Darren Aronofsky. In the 15 […]

Former Superman Brandon Routh was in attendance at the Chicago Comic-Con this past weekend, during which the Superman Returns star was asked for his thoughts on Man of Steel. Despite admitting that he’s yet to see the film, Routh still offered his opinion, based upon what he’s heard about the Zack Snyder-directed reboot. “With a […]

After yesterday’s confirmation from Samuel L. Jackson yesterday that Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) will play Scarlet Witch, it seems the cast for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron is continuing to sweeten, as Latino-Review are claiming that Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass 2) is is confirmed to appear as Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. Quicksilver. A […]

Riddick and Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel spent an awful lot of time this year teasing the fact he’d met with Marvel Studios about a role in the Cinematic Universe, before it was finally revealed that he’d be lending his voice to Groot, the tree-like member of the cosmic superhero team Guardians of the […]

Having teased his super secretive meeting with Marvel for the best part of two months, Vin Diesel was confirmed as in talks to lend his voice to the tree-like Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy earlier this month, and now the Riddick and Fast & Furious star has been speaking about his role in an […]

Anthony Stokes shares his concerns over the future of Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man franchise… Jim Carrey has been rumored to have a role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Now I’ve made it very public that I’m a huge fan of Sam Raimi and his Spider-Man trilogy.  Behind Toy Story it is probably my favorite trilogy of all […]