Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Although we’ll be touch upon the likes of The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Wolverine and Daredevil in this edition of The Week in Spandex, the past week has been dominated by The Avengers, with Joss Whedon’s epic superhero […]

We heard rumblings a few months back that Lionsgate were already hard at work on The Expendables 3, and with the second movie arriving in cinemas this week, producer Avi Lerner has taken a moment to discuss the plans for the future of The Expendables franchise – specifically, increasing the already impressive roster of action […]

A couple of weeks ago we heard from Randy Couture that he expected filming to commence on The Expendables 3 later in the year, despite the fact that the second installment in the star-studded action series doesn’t arrive in cinemas until August. Well, if that proves to be the case, we could be seeing another […]

Oli Davis reviews the first episode of Game of Thrones season two… I was never a fantasy guy before last summer. Sci-Fi was more my thing – The Matrix over The Lord of the Rings; 40K over Warhammer. How could a sword ever be cooler than a lightsaber? Space ships instead of sea ships, technology […]

Having taken time out to direct his ‘dream project’, the bodybuilding crime caper Pain & Gain – which is currently sitting atop the North American box office with a projected opening weekend of around $20 million – Michael Bay is turning his attention back to blockbuster filmmaking next year with two 80s toy adaptations, directing […]

Michael Bay has been coming in for some stick from fans of the classic children’s cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since his comments a couple of weeks back about the beloved characters being reimagined as aliens for Platinum Dunes’ upcoming live-action reboot. Bay’s initial response was to tell fans to “chill”, and now he’s taken […]

Last week Michael Bay took to the stage at the 2012 Nickelodeon Upfront to discuss Platinum Dunes’ plans for the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, where his comments about his version of the Turtles being “from an alien race” immediately caused uproar amongst fans of the heroes in a half-shell – including former Michaelangelo […]

An explanation of our new ratings system here at Flickering Myth… The New York Latino Film Festival ran a humorous, albeit snarky, advertising campaign a couple of months back. Its posters featured graphical representations comparing the clichés found in two types of narrative cinema: FILMS, those done for flash, and MOVIES, those done for cash. […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… We’ve known about it for what seems like an eternity now, but Warner Bros. have finally confirmed that the six-minute prologue from The Dark Knight Rises will be attached to certain IMAX screenings of the upcoming Tom Cruise action […]

Gary Collinson speculates on the identity of Juno Temple’s “street-smart Gotham girl” in The Dark Knight Rises… Hot on the heels of Empire’s impressive insight into The Dark Knight Rises earlier this week, a potentially juicy rumour emerged suggesting that Christopher Nolan had secretly extended his Inception reunion by casting Ellen Page (X-Men: The Last […]