A.C.O.D, 2013 Directed by Stu ZichermanWritten by Stu Zicherman and Ben KarlinStarring Adam Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Clark Duke, Amy Poehler, Jessica Alba and Jane Lynch SYNOPSIS: A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study […]

Ron Howard has been planning to bring Stephen King’s opus The Dark Tower for the screen for what seems like an eternity now, but despite numerous setbacks, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker is still keen to get him ambitious adaptation off the ground. Speaking to Empire during a podcast interview for his latest film Rush, Howard […]

In Fear, 2013 Directed by Jeremy LoveringStarring Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert and Allen Leech SYNOPSIS: Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there. As I left the screening with co-editor […]

Peaches Does Herself, 2012 Written and directed by PeachesStarring Peaches, Dannii Daniels and Sandy Kane SYNOPSIS: Peaches Does Herself is an electro rock opera stage show that tells a mythical history of the musician Peaches. You remember that episode of Spaced where they go and watch Vulva’s stage show? Well Peaches Does Herself is exactly […]

Paul Risker on Katniss Everdeen and the dystopian sci-fi role model…. Woman, says Caroline Williams, has been a “prize, there to be defeated, destroyed or possessed.” Regardless a number of female protagonists have provided a strong representation of femininity, from the inaugural “Final Girl” Jamie Lee Curtis, Alien’s Ellen Ripley, The Silence of the Lambs’ […]

Mud, 2012 Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols.Starring Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon and Michael Shannon. SYNOPSIS: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. Matthew McConaughey can do no wrong at […]

The Witches, 1966. Directed by Cyril Frankel.Starring Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell and Ingrid Boulting. SYNOPSIS: Returning home to England following a harrowing and life threatening encounter with the occult in Africa, schoolteacher Gwen Mayfield takes up the position of headmistress in a quaint English village. In a distinctly English fashion, Hammer’s […]

In a World…, 2013. Written and Directed by Lake Bell.Starring Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino and Rob Corddry. SYNOPSIS: An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets […]

Earlier in the week former Deadline editor-in-chief Nikki Finke dropped a scoop claiming that Max Landis (Chronicle) had been brought in to work on the script for the long-gestating Ghostbusters 3, only for Landis to immediately shoot the report down as false. However, he has now taken to Twitter to reveal what his pitch for […]

Paul Risker chats with Person of Interest star Kevin Chapman… Recently Flickering Myth had the privilege to speak with Person of Interest’s Kevin Chapman aka Detective Lionel Fusco. As I eagerly await the second season of Person of Interest, the sound of Lionel’s… Sorry Kevin’s voice on the other end of the phone line was […]