The Flickering Myth writing team look at the trailer for Only God Forgives… Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling really made a name for themselves with 2011’s Drive and now they are back together again with the first red band trailer for Only God Forgives. And as one would expect, this is very dark, moody […]

Sony Pictures’ long-gestating live-action reboot of Masters of the Universe looked to be moving closer to becoming a reality back in 2012 when director Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) signed on to bring He-Man and his pals to the screen, only for the filmmaker to leave the project in limbo this past October, dropping […]

Last July it seemed that the long-rumoured live-action reboot Masters of the Universe might finally be on its way to the screen, with Sony Pictures and Escape Artists tapping Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) to direct He-Man’s second big screen adventure. However the project now looks to have hit yet another stumbling block, with […]

Now that G.I. Joe: Retaliation has arrived in cinemas [read our ★★★ review here], director Jon M. Chu can give his full attention to another classic 80s toy line that he’s set to adapt for the screen in the long-in-development Masters of the Universe. Speaking to IGN (via ComicBookMovie), Chu has provided a brief update […]

Last night our knowledge of who is involved in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special grew – or didn’t, depending on how you look at it. John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) tweeted around the globe his non-involvement with the 50th Anniversary Special: I will not be involved in the 50th Anniversary Episode of Dr WHO. […]

The internet was awash with reports yesterday linking Academy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle to the vacant director’s chair on Bond 24, stemming from a report in The Sun which claimed that Boyle was in the frame because he’d been seen chatting with producer Barbara Broccoli back stage at the Empire Awards on Sunday night. So […]

We complete our countdown to The World’s End as Jackson Ball looks forward to the long-gestating Ant-Man…. Way back in 2006, Edgar Wright appeared at Comic-Con to discuss the possibility of a film adaptation for Marvel’s Ant-Man. Here we are seven years later though, and production still hasn’t begun for the film. Seven years is […]

The Flickering Myth get together to talk about yesterday’s leaked Ant-Man footage… It was last summer that Edgar Wright showcased some test footage from Ant-Man, the movie planned to kick of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then the footage was kept under lock and key and became a sort of myth comic […]

In the next instalment of the ‘Late to the Show’ series, Luke Addison looks at the BBC’s Sherlock…. The BBC’s Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the clinical, uncaring Sherlock, with Martin Freeman as his initially crippled sidekick John Watson has been given critical acclaim by critics and viewers alike since it first aired two years […]

Now that the first trailer for The Wolverine has been confirmed as dropping alongside G.I. Joe: Retaliation on Wednesday, March 27th, it seems that 20th Century Fox are about to lift the publicity blackout on the upcoming solo sequel. Speaking to Total Film (via CBM), star Hugh Jackman offered up some thoughts on his latest […]