Having delivered another critical failure with After Earth, Anthony Stokes asks whether M. Night Shyamalan is really as bad as people say… Nobody embodies the phrase “One Hit Wonder” better than M. Night Shyamalan. Initially deemed as “The Next Spielberg”, he has been on a progressively steady slump his entire career, making weaker and weaker […]

Luke Owen gives his thoughts on last night’s episode of The Apprentice… I am always one to admit when I am wrong. Last week I predicted that Kurt would make it to the final four. One week later, and he’s gone. Natalie’s gone too, but it’s Kurt I’m more upset about. Last night’s edition of […]

A few weeks back Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped a brief update on three sequels that he has in the pipeline, confirming that the long-rumoured Terminator 5 has joined The Legend of Conan and the Twins follow-up Triplets as part of his upcoming slate. Given Arnie’s age, there had been some speculation as to how he might […]

To celebrate the release of Man of Steel this month, the Flickering Myth writing team are looking back over Superman’s previous screen adventures; next up is Olivia Luder with a defense of the origin series Smallville…. Superman is a character with a long and varied history and the upcoming Man of Steel movie has provided […]

Kris Wall reviews The Last of Us…. Post-apocalyptic action adventure – four words that have now become almost guaranteed to raise a yawn amongst the gaming collective looking to seek out new and exciting adventures. So, from the creators of Uncharted, Naughty Dog, comes another post-apocalyptic action adventure that riffs on everything from The Road […]

The Purge, 2013. Written and Directed by James DeMonaco.Starring Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane, Edwin Hodge and Rhys Wakefield. SYNOPSIS: A family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalized. What if one night a […]

It’s been five years since the release of the first instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man – and their seventh came out this year in the form of Iron Man 3. Marvel have done an incredible job of producing big-hit action hero films in a way that no company has ever managed. Although […]

Martin Deer reviews the first issue of Superman Unchained…. “When thirteen satellites fall from the sky in one day, the logical suspect is Lex Luthor even though he’s still locked up in prison! But a stranger question remains: If Superman didn’t stop the last satellite from falling, who did?“ After his stellar work – and […]

MGM’s planned reboot of the Tomb Raider movie franchise has taken a step closer to becoming  reality with the news that the studio has appointed screenwriter Marti Noxon to write the script for the video game adaptation, which is said to follow “archaeologist Lara Croft as she sets off on one of her international adventures.” […]

To celebrate the release of Man of Steel this month, the Flickering Myth writing team are looking back over Superman’s previous screen adventures; next up is Rohan Morbey with a defense of 2006’s Superman Returns…. On June 28th 2006, Superman, after an absence of nearly two decades from cinema screens, returned. The director of the […]