The popular web comic Cyanide & Happiness is about to enjoy its ten year anniversary, and to celebrate co-creator Chris Wilson has put together a video for fans to thank them for their support and to announce that a new animated series, called The Cyanide & Happiness Show, will premiere on November 13th. Each episode of the series […]

Thomas Roach on why a female Robin would be good for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice…. There’s been some speculation that Jena Malone will actually be playing the female version of Robin, Carrie Kelley, in 2016s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – first when Malone visited the set a few months back, then […]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, Thor: The Dark World) has joined the cast of Game of Thrones for its fifth season; details of his role are being kept under wraps, but the site reports that he’ll be playing a character called Malko who is not present in George R.R. Martin’s book […]

Of all the DC Comics movies announced last week, one in-development project was noticeably absent: the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s seminal and beloved comic Sandman. The last we heard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was working on the film with Man of Steel scribe David S. Goyer and Gaiman himself, with Skins and This is England scribe Jack Thorne on scripting duties. Sandman‘s omission from […]

Between Marvel Studios, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Sony (well, if Sony can get its act together), we’ve got a whopping forty (!) superhero movies on the horizon, and if you’re struggling to keep track of everything the folks at Comics Alliance have put together a handy infographic which shows release dates for all […]

The BBC has announced details of the upcoming DVD release of Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series, which is set to arrive in the UK on November 17th 2014. Here’s the cover art, as well as a list of the special features… Special Features: Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord (A 45-minute feature with Fifth […]

He’s been linked to Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange and Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad in recent days, and now The Wrap is reporting that 20th Century Fox is also courting Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) for one of its own superhero projects, with the site claiming that the British actor is wanted for the role […]

The acclaimed horror The Babadook (which Flickering Myth deputy editor Luke Owen described as the best film of FrightFest) is set for its UK release in less than a week now, and so Icon Film Distribution has dropped a new ‘Police Station’ clip, which we’ve got for you here… Six years after the violent death […]

The Wind Rises (Japan: Kaze tachinu), 2013. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Starring Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto, Masahiko Nishimura, [For English dub]: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt and Martin Short. SYNOPSIS: A profile of Jiro Horikoshi (Anno/Gordon-Levitt), a Japanese engineer who designed fighter planes during World War II. The swan song of Hayao […]

Natural Born Killers, 1994. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rodney Dangerfield. SYNOPSIS: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. Natural Born Killers was selected as a special presentation at the 51st Chicago […]