Fruitvale Station, 2013. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Melonie Diaz and Octavia Spencer. SYNOPSIS: An arguably biographical reconstruction of the day leading up to the tragic events that took place at the titular Fruitvale Station on New Years Eve, 2008. Coming from a generation that […]

Tom Jolliffe kicks off a new feature at Flickering Myth entitled The Dusty VHS Corner; first up is a trio of 90s straight-to-video action spectaculars in Grid Runners, Martial Law and Back to Even… Remember when films were on things called video cassettes? Remember when they were sold in rental shops, full to the brim […]

While Marvel struggles to get development on Ant-Man back on track, it seems the studio is moving full steam ahead with its plans for another Phase Three offering, Doctor Strange. Having secured a director in Scott Derrickson (Sinister) earlier in the week, Deadline is reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Tom Hardy […]

Jackson Ball reviews the seventh episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … We are just over the half-way point now, and it’s becoming very clear what season 2 where Orange is the New Black really comes into its own. No longer does the show need to centre around its central character Piper […]

Jackson Ball reviews the eighth episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … We are well into the second season now, and things are beginning to move pretty quickly in Litchfield Penitentiary. Alliances are being formed, broken, and formed again, while the tension between the inmates and the guards reaches boiling point… Warning! […]

Jackson Ball reviews the ninth episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … Just like that, we are heading into the tail-end of season 2. Episode nine offers the regular dose of shocks and laughs, but also promises certain events that will, I expect have drastic repercussions when we reach the season finale. […]

Jackson Ball reviews the Season 2 premiere of Orange Is the New Black… The first season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black had it all: colourful characters, brilliantly dark humour, critical acclaim and one hell of a cliff-hanger. One year on, it’s time to continue Piper Chapman’s story of incarceration, as we return to […]

It’s been more than two weeks since Edgar Wright left Marvel’s Ant-Man, but it seems the studio is making slow progress in securing a replacement director for the Phase Three movie. Having identified a list of potential successors that included Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), Adam McKay (Anchorman) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re […]

Jackson Ball reviews the second episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … After a tense but rewarding season opener, it’s back to prison-life reality as we return to the familiar stomping-ground of Litchfield Penitentiary. Piper’s back from Chicago, but how will her fellow inmates react to her following her brutal attack on […]

Jackson Ball reviews the third episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … Since its inception, Orange Is the New Black has been nothing if not a crowd-pleaser. It knows exactly what its fans want to see and it (usually) delivers as such. One such example of this sort of fan-pleasing is this […]