Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen was released this past Friday, and a few new reviews have popped up over the weekend… First up is a review from Rob Smedley of CultBox; here’s an extract: “Holy Franchise, Batman! makes the bold claim of being ‘the Caped Crusader fan’s bible’, and lives […]

Earlier this year Sony announced that Chronicle director Josh Trank was developing a live-action movie based around the popular Marvel villain Venom and now The Amazing Spider-Man producers Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach have briefly updated the status of the Spidey spin-off in an interview with Hollywood.com. Unsurprisingly given the success of Marvel’s The Avengers, […]

If there’s ever been a perfect example of how not to approach a sequel, it has to be The Hangover Part II. Basically, director Todd Phillips took everything that was great about his 2009 original and tried to replicate this for a second time, albeit in a different location, with hilariously unfunny results. Still, the […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Bryan Grill, Simon Maddison, Dan Rosen, and Alessandro Cioffi as well as creative director Steve Viola about their work on The Avengers… “Marvel tends to overlap their film projects – their current M.O. seems to be to have three pictures on the go at […]

If you’re looking for a dark and twisted tale of science and fiction, then you may be interested in the latest project from Flickering Myth staff writer Anghus Houvouras – a graphic novel entitled EXE: Executable File about a mad scientist known as The Artist, who has created a QR code capable of driving the […]

Rampart, 2011. Directed by Oren Moverman. Starring Woody Harrelson, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Brie Larson, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi and Sigourney Weaver. SYNOPSIS: In 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) – the last of a dying breed of Vietnam-vet ‘cowboy’ cops – struggles to survive amid accusations […]

Headhunters (Norwegian: Hodejegerne), 2011. Directed by Morten Tyldum. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard, Aksel Hennie and Synnove Macody Lund. SYNOPSIS: Norweigan corporate recruitment headhunter Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) steals art on the side to finance his opulent lifestyle and to impress his beautiful wife Diana (Synnove Macody Lund). He meets a potential client in […]

The Woman in Black, 2012. Directed by James Watkins. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey and Liz White. SYNOPSIS: A young widower and lawyer Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) travels to a remote village to work out a client’s estate and discovers a populous transformed by the belief that a vengeful ghost of […]

Margin Call, 2011. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci. SYNOPSIS: After being retrenched, Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci) gives his research to his protege Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) to complete. All signs point to an impending (nigh inevitable) global financial crisis and Margin Call follows the […]

50/50, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston. SYNOPSIS: A twenty-something guy struggles to beat cancer with the help of his best friend. Inspired by the true story of writer Will Reiser’s own experience with cancer, 50/50 sees best friends Adam (JGL) and Kyle […]