A recent study has found that the amount of females turning to gaming on consoles and smartphone devices has steadily increased. According to a report published this year, women gamers actually outnumber teenager boys in the gaming population by a large 36%. This contrasts massively to an article released in 2009, which opened by remarking […]

Ubisoft have come under fire for remarks made by Vincent Pontbriand, a senior producer on Assassin’s Creed: Unity, who claimed Ubisoft had deliberately kept the resolution of both the PS4 and the Xbox One versions of the game the same. Speaking with Videogamer, Pontbriand said: “We decided to lock them at the same specs to […]

20th Century Fox has done an effective job of keeping almost everything about director Josh Trank’s (Chronicle) upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four under wraps, going through the entire shoot with barely so much as a set photo. When it comes to the plot, virtually nothing is known save for speculation that it will take […]

Annual horror-based film festival Grimmfest begins tomorrow in Manchester following a preview night featuring A Nightmare on Elm Street and indie horror The Babadook (read our review here). Grimmfest will be playing over two dozen films during its run including short films and a screening of Suspiria accompanied by a live score from Italian progressive […]

Trevor Hogg participated in a roundtable interview with filmmaker Dan Gilroy who was attending the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival for the World Premiere of his directorial debut Nightcrawler.  Beware there are spoilers…   A fascination with New York City crime photographer Weegee who also took social commentary photos from the 1930s to 1950s led […]

With Sony pushing The Amazing Spider-Man 3 back to 2018, the studio has decided to concentrate on its spin-off features, starting with 2016’s The Sinister Six, followed by an as-yet-unrevealed female-led movie in 2017, as well as a Venom adaptation, which is said to be going by the title Venom Carnage. Speaking to ComicBookResources, director […]

Back in July, some early concept footage for a standalone Deadpool movie from Tim Miller and Blur Studio leaked online, which was met with near-universal praise from fans of the Merc with the Mouth. While it doesn’t quite seem to have convinced 20th Century Fox to give the go-ahead to the long-gestating solo movie just […]

Zachary Leeman chats with Brett Murray, producer of Shooting Clerks… Tusk mastermind Kevin Smith started his days in a convenience store in New Jersey called Quick Stop. It was his time behind the counter there that inspired his 1994 film Clerks. The movie was made for peanuts (around $27,000) by Smith and his friends without […]

Yesterday it was reported that Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) was in line to take on the role of Snake Plisskin in the reboot of the John Carpenter classic, Escape From New York. While over to promote his new film The Guest (read our review here), Stevens told Flickering Myth that there was no truth to […]

When Ben Affleck was announced as playing The Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the Internet virtually exploded, with opinions ranging from those who felt that it’s the worst thing to happen to the character since bat nipples, to those who simply said that Affleck was “the bomb in Phantoms.” […]