Last week the internet exploded with rumors and unfounded speculation that Argo and Halt and Catch Fire actor Scoot McNairy is playing The Flash in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The rumors sprung from photos showing McNairy on set with green-screen socks which led to fan speculation that his legs would be altered in post-production to account for super speed. […]

While over to promote her new film Obvious Child (read our review here), Jenny Slate told Flickering Myth that she “should be” returning as her character Mona-Lisa in the hit show Parks and Recreation. “Yeah I should be,” the actress said when asked if she would be back. “But it’s set three years in the […]

Over the past few years, we’ve heard on several occasions that martial arts superstar Jackie Chan was set to join the roster of action stars in The Expendables, only for him to be absent when the latest instalment rolled around. It happened with The Expendables 2, it happened with The Expendables 3, and we’ll no […]

Despite Pirates of the Caribbean being one of Disney’s biggest cash cow franchises, getting the fifth installment, Dead Men Tell No Tales, off the ground has been hard to accomplish. Kon Tiki directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are attached to helm the film, with Johnny Depp confirmed to reprise the role of Captain Jack Sparrow, but the film […]

The Rover, 2014. Directed by David Michôd. Starring Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, and Tawanda Manyimo. SYNOPSIS: 10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves’ brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the […]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982 Directed by Amy Heckerling. Starring Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Backer and Robert Romanus. SYNOPSIS A year in the life of teenagers at Ridgemont High as they fall in love, have sex and smoke their way through school. Fast Times at Ridgemont High is […]

20th Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has become the seventh movie of the year to cross $500 million at the global box office, with the simian sequel currently sitting on $503.9 million, having pulled in $197.8 million domestically and $306.1 million from international markets. That figure makes Dawn the highest grossing […]

Hector and the Search for Happiness, 2014 Directed by Peter Chelsom Starring Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Christopher Plummer, Chad Willett SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. It’s really hard to dislike Simon Pegg (unless you’re our own Rohan Morbey) and it’s even harder to […]

Having already become the highest grossing instalment in the franchise, Fox’s simian sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has now crossed $600 million at the global box office, with an opening weekend of $47 million in China helping to push the film to an impressive $611 million to date. Apes is the sixth […]

As Marvel celebrates another huge opening for Guardians of the Galaxy, with the film pulling in a hefty $160 million debut at the global box office, Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction has hit a landmark, with the fourth instalment in the blockbuster Transformers franchise becoming the first movie of 2014 to […]