Robb Ghag reviews Detective Comics #22… “Meet The Wrath! In Gotham City, he’s the anti-Batman, and the body count is about to shoot through the roof! And in the backup story, Man-Bat makes a startling discovery!” ‘Targeting the Shield’.  The title says it all in this latest issue of Detective Comics.  After the Man-Bat outbreak […]

The Brood, 1979. Directed by David Cronenberg.Starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle and Henry Beckman. SYNOPSIS: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband’s investigation. Jonathan Romney wrote in 2007 how […]

Following the release of A Field in England, Brogan Morris believes director Ben Wheatley has already established himself as a unique filmmaker, and an auteur for the future… So, Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England screened on Film4 on Friday night (and saw simultaneous release on DVD, VOD and in cinemas the same day, officially […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Charles Arthur writes for The Guardian about the BBC’s decision to stop funding their venture into 3D television: “… the corporation will stop making programmes in the new format at the end of this year at least until 2016 following “disappointing” takeup. Despite an estimated 1.5m households in […]

World War Z, 2013 Directed by Marc Forster.Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, Fana Mokoena, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Matthew Fox, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins and Fabrizio Zacharee Guidoas. SYNOPSIS: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and […]

Oliver Davis reviews Batman, Incorporated #12… “Leviathan and the Heretic are on the ropes…could Batman be on the verge of avenging all he’s lost?” THE FINAL BATTLE BEGINS, reads the caption on the front cover. It could just as easily say: FINALLY, THE BATTLE BEGINS. It’s been over two months since the cliffhanger of #10, […]

Luke Owen counts down to Pacific Rim by looking at some of his favourite giant monsters… Kaiju: The Japanese word for “strange beast”. However, the word Kaiju has been universally translated and defined into English as “monster” or “giant monster”. Dr. Alan Grant: How fast are they?John Hammond: Well, we clocked the T-Rex at 32 […]

Luke Owen reviews the trade paperback release of New Crusaders: Rise of the Heroes… Over a decade ago, the super hero team known as The Mighty Crusaders did the impossible: they won. Successful in their battle against evil and finding they’d made the world a better place, the heroes moved to the small town of […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team countdown to the UK release of Monsters University by picking their favourite Pixar Movies; next up is Ryan O’Neill with Up…. Up was released in 2009, sandwiched between the equally ambitious and creative Wall-E and Toy Story 3. At this time, it seemed almost everything Pixar Animation Studios touched turned to […]

A Field in England, 2013. Directed by Ben Wheatley.Starring Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley, Peter Ferdinando, Ryan Pope, and Richard Glover. SYNOPSIS: Mushrooms, madness and gold contribute to dark deeds in Civil War era rural England. A desolate field in England, during the Civil War. Two men are in a white tent, one is screaming violently […]