With the release of the eagerly anticipated sequel The Raid 2: Berandal just around the corner, Screen Gems and XYZ have decided to cash in on the success of Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans’ hard-hitting Indonesian action hit with a Hollywood remake. According to The Wrap, Patrick Hughes – director of the excellent Aussie western Red […]

Anthony Stokes is excited by the casting on Fox’s upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four… After months of rumors and tons of backlash The Fantastic Four have been cast. This isn’t intentional, but it seems that movies people are excited for I don’t care about (Batman vs. Superman, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and the that […]

Gavin Logan reviews the second episode of Fleming… While last week’s opener did a respectable job at seemingly setting the tone for the following episodes, teasing us with just the right combination of action and sexual accomplishment that we are so use to seeing from a Bond movie, Episode 2 smacks us in the face […]

Anghus Houvouras on how spoilers are ruining film sites…. I’ve been pretty ambivalent about the spoiler outrage that has gripped the online communities since their existence.  Even when they were microscopic.  No doubt at some point in 1992 there were four film fans on a BBS Bulletin Board and one of them ruined The Crying […]

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 […]

Fox’s Batman prequel series Gotham has added a new villain to its cast, with Jada Pinkett Smith (The Matrix Revolutions, Madagascar) set to play newly-created mobster Fish Mooney, who Deadline describes as “an imposing, hotheaded and notoriously sadistic gangster boss and nightclub owner with street smarts and almost extra-sensory abilities to read people like an […]

Last week we heard that the race for the role of Kyle Reese in Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor’s Terminator: Genesis was down to two contenders and now we have a winner, with Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard) securing the part of the time-travelling hero against competition from Boyd Holbrook […]

20th Century Fox and Chronicle director Josh Trank have finally found their roster for next year’s superhero reboot The Fantastic Four, and if you’ve been following the casting rumours closely, there’ll be little surprise in three quarters of the names. As rumoured, Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle, Fruitvale Station) is set to play Johnny Storm / […]

The Flickering Myth writing team look at the trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy…. It’s had a mostly positive reaction (apart from that one guy on our Facebook page who hated it), but the Guardians of the Galaxy has taken the world by storm. People who had no idea of who or what the Guardians […]

Since his controversial casting as The Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman, we’ve heard a lot of people coming out in support of Ben Affleck as the latest incarnation of the Caped Crusader. However, it seems that not everyone in Hollywood is on board with Batfleck, with Robot Chicken […]