Scott Davis continues his journey with Jack Bauer through 24: Live Another Day with a review of episode 7… Here come the “dammits”. Hour seven of 24’s return to the small screen, and the tension is becoming more and more palpable. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Davies (Stephen Fry) and MI5’s disastrous intervention of […]

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, 2014. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Callum Keith Rennie, Helena Bonham Carter, Dominique Pinon, Kyle Catlett, Judy Davis and Jakob Davies. SYNOPSIS: Upon receiving the news that he has won an award from the Smithsonian Institute, the ten-year-old TS Spivet leaves his family home on an adventure to collect […]

Gavin Logan on Marvel taking the MCU in a different direction with Doctor Strange…. Lately the majority of Marvel’s headlines have been littered with the revolving doors situation at the front of the Ant-Man headquarters. In, out, shake it all about. It’s been messy and Marvel have come out of it looking less than savoury. […]

Oculus, 2014 Directed by Mike Flanagan Starring Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, Analise Basso and Garrett Ryan SYNOPSIS: A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon. Over the last decade or so, the horror genre hasn’t really turned […]

Villordsutch reviews Big Finish Audio Productions’ Survivors – Series One… Written By Matt Fitton, Jonathan Morris, Andrew Smith, John Dorney. Directed by Ken Bentley. Sound Design by Neil Gardner. Music by Nicholas Briggs. Starring Lucy Fleming (Jenny Richards), Ian McCulloch (Greg Preston), John Banks (Daniel Connor), Louise Jameson (Jackie Burchall), Sinead Keenan (Susie Edwards), Caroline Langrishe (Helen Wiseman), Adrian Lukis (James Gillison), Chase Masterson (Maddie Price), Terry Molloy (John Redgrave), Camilla Power (Fiona […]

The fifth season of The Walking Dead is set to get underway on AMC in the Fall, and if the latest comments from producer David Alpert is any indication, we may only be a third of the way through the run of the hit zombie series. Speaking at a Produced By panel this past weekend, […]

Scott Davis comments on how even “original” blockbusters like Edge of Tomorrow could soon be a thing of the past.… Over the last few weeks, I have had many discussions with friends and fellow Flickering Myth writers across podcasts and Twitter about the state of Hollywood as it is right now. Case in point, last […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

There’s a good chance that George Osbourne will need to find himself a new job come the next General Election, and it seems he fancies himself as a movie scooper, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer paying a visit to the set of Star Wars: Episode VII and revealing that Gareth Edwards’ (Godzilla) forthcoming Star […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisor Lou Pecora, digital effects supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidi, animation supervisor Benoit Dubuc and previs supervisor  Austin Bonang about having the future collide with the past…. When returning to the movie franchise he helped to launch, filmmaker Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) turned to Richard Stammers (Prometheus) to orchestrate the visual […]