The Flickering Myth writing team debate Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Beware of spoilers within… The dust has finally settled on Ridley Scott’s (Blade Runner, Gladiator) not-just-a-prequel-to-Alien, Prometheus. Billed as one of the movie events of the 21st century in some quarters, let alone just 2012, Prometheus had an awful lot of hype to live up to. […]

The Flickering Myth writing team trade opinions on the first trailer for Dredd… In 1995 Sylvester Stallone starred as judge, jury and executioner in Judge Dredd. Whilst the film has its fans, they are mostly drowned out by the critics. The movie has a dire 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is slammed for weaknesses […]

There’s just over a week to go until the UK release of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen, and a splendid new review has been posted by Mark “RorMachine” Cassidy of ComicBookMovie.com, who has been kind enough to give it five stars, describing the book as “by far the most comprehensive […]

Earlier this year, the French-owned Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis announced that they’d be bringing the celebrated movie serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the small screen, and now Deadline has revealed that they plan to follow this with another series based around the comic book character Barbarella, made famous of course by […]

Following on from the recent delays to G.I. Joe: Retaliation and World War Z (both of which have been pushed back to 2013), The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Paramount Pictures has now shut down pre-production on the much-maligned Ninja Turtles reboot from producer Michael Bay (Transformers) and director Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans). […]

The Flickering Myth writing team debate the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailers… Hollywood has a habit of toying with history in ridiculous ways. Films regularly turn the facts upside down in the name of fiction, but also, annoyingly, in the name of overzealous American patriotism. The British are often the villains and the Americans always […]

This August sees the release of the fourth Bourne movie, The Bourne Legacy, which has adopted the unusual stance of ditching the franchise’s lead character, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), in favour of a brand new protagonist, Aaron Cross, portrayed by Jeremy Renner (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Avengers). It’s certainly a strange tactic (especially […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Russ Fischer on Film on the new trailer for The Bourne Legacy: “So this trailer does a lot more to set up the links between the film’s new story and the plotlines of the other three Bourne films without really giving too much away. It’s a nicely-cut trailer […]

Scott Davis takes a in-depth look at the most anticipated film of the summer, The Dark Knight Rises and discusses its potential box office power after the success of The Avengers, and the marketing boom that has exploded across the world over the last couple of weeks, in lieu of its impending release on July […]

The latest edition of Total Film is available now, and tucked away behind all the comic book coverage of the likes of Dredd, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and The Avengers 2 is a short review of my book, Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen. If you have the magazine, […]