Well, despite his denials during the Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues premiere, it seems that Paul Rudd will indeed lead Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man movie, with Variety revealing that the star is now in negotiations with Marvel Studios about taking on the role of the miniature superhero. Rudd was first rumoured as a frontrunner for the […]

Despite rumours that Marvel Studios co-president and Agent Carter helmer Louis D’Esposito is set to step up to the plate, Heat Vision is reporting that Marvel has identified a list of potential candidates to replace Edgar Wright on the studio’s first Phase Three offering Ant-Man. Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), Adam McKay (Anchorman), Rawson Thurber (We’re the […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the tenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D… I’m giving the first half of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. a B-Minus.  It’s a good, solid series that is still getting by on the potential of what it could be.  The show is an awful lot like “Lola”, Coulson’s flying car.  It’s a great idea […]

Next year Hugh Jackman will make his seventh appearance as the Wolverine in director Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, while yesterday’s news about X-Men: Apocalypse coming in 2016 means there are three further potential outings for Logan on the horizon, including the X-Force movie from Jeff Wadlow and James Mangold’s sequel to The […]

Back in March, 20th Century Fox laid out the future of its Marvel properties by announcing that X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Fantastic Four would be joined by X-Men: Apocalypse, The Fantastic Four 2, an as-yet-unrevealed movie, and a sequel to last year’s The Wolverine. Assuming Hugh Jackman appears in Apocalypse (and doesn’t […]

A.K.A. Doc Pomus, 2013. Directed by Peter Miller and Will Hechter. Starring Willie Burke, Dr. John, Dion DiMucci, Ben E. King, B.B. King, Joan Osborne, Lou Reed and Doc Pomus (archival footage). SYNOPSIS: Paralyzed since childhood by polio Jerome Felder overcomes the crippling disease to become a renowned songwriter called Doc Pomus. Often a song […]

The Flickering Myth writing team give their thoughts on Gal Gadot’s casting as Wonder Woman in Batman vs. Superman…  In order to make sure The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer had as little impact as possible, Variety dropped a huge news story yesterday that Fast & Furious star Gal Gadot will be playing Wonder Woman in the upcoming […]

NBC is developing a new series based upon the classic Universal Monster movie The Wolfman with a view to the show joining the network’s supernatural programming block, which currently features Grimm and Dracula. According to Deadline, The Wolfman “is described as a supernatural thriller that explores what it means to be a man and to […]

Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979. Written and Directed by Werner Herzog.Starring Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor and Walter Ladengast. SYNOPSIS: After taking over a small German village, Count Dracula attempts to spread his influence and activities to the rest of the world. All that prevents Dracula from continuing his demonic practices is the […]

Concrete Night (Finland: Betoniyö), 2013. Directed by Pirjo Honkasalo.Starring Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Alex Anton and Iida Kuningas. SYNOPSIS: A fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother. Ostensibly about 14-year-old Simo (Johannes Brotherus) and his quest for self-discovery in the drudgery of his […]