The Flickering Myth writing team sit down to discuss the trailer for Spike Lee’s American remake of Oldboy…. Ah remakes. They’re now an integral part of our film watching experience. Not a year goes by where we don’t hear rumours of new films that are actually films we’ve seen before. Yesterday saw the release of […]

Martin Deer wonders whether comic book movies could be fueling the Hollywood reboot culture… Remakes in Hollywood are certainly not a new thing. 1957’s An Affair to Remember starring Cary Grant, considered one of the most romantic films of all time, is actually a remake of the 1939 film Love Affair. Alfred Hitchcock remade his […]

There’s been so much speculation about the cast of the upcoming action sequel The Expendables 3 – most of which has come directly from Sylvester Stallone, or producer Avi Lerner – that at this point, it’s quite difficult to separate fact from fiction. And now we have another rumour to throw your way, with ExBlog […]

Apart from the appointment of J.J. Abrams (Star Trek Into Darkness) as director, we know very little in the way of factual information about Star Wars: Episode VII. Sure, there’s been plenty of rumours – the most persistent being that Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) will reprise […]

Earlier this week Scarlett Johannson confirmed a January start date for filming on 2015’s hotly-anticipated sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron. However, before she returns alongside the rest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Johannson will be back as the Black Widow in next year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the actress has spoken to Coming […]

Following the image Legendary Pictures posted to their Facebook page earlier [see here], it looks like there is some more news coming from the 2014 Godzilla reboot. The press release for the movie contains a lot of details about the merchandising and tone of the movie (taking it back to its routes etc.) but the […]

We may only be one move into Phase Two, but Marvel Studios is already laying down its plans for the next slate of movies post-The Avengers 2 in 2015; we already know that Phase Three will get underway in November 2015 with Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, while the studio recently set release dates for two as […]

Get those pinches of salt ready… We reported on Sunday that J.J. Abrams would be kicking off filming of Star Wars: Episode VII early 2014 but refused to give any speculation on whether the plot would contain elements of the Expanded Universe. However, according to Schmoes Know, the basic plot of Episode VII has been […]

As Joss Whedon continues to put the finishing touches to the script for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, the geek favourite filmmaker has spoken to Entertainment Weekly about his plans for the eponymous villain, stating that he plans to strip back some of the artificial intelligence’s abilities when he goes up against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes […]

The Flickering Myth team discuss the first trailer for The Wolverine…. On Monday, we got a teaser for the first trailer for The Wolverine. Then on Tuesday we got a slightly longer teaser for the trailer. Finally, after the trailer for a trailer which itself was a trailer for the trailer, we finally got the […]