Oliver Davis on the *other* bit of Batman vs. Superman casting news…. On Friday, the latest bit of casting news for the upcoming Batman vs. Superman was announced by its director, Zack Snyder. “Having Jesse [Eisenberg] in the role,” he said of the new Lex Luthor, “allows us to…take the character in some new and […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s acting comeback hasn’t exactly got off to the best of starts, with the likes of The Last Stand and Escape Plan failing to score the kind of success that the Austrian Oak enjoyed during the height of his career. However, things could change as Arnie starts revisiting some of his earlier work, and […]

The Flickering Myth writing team sit down to discuss Jesse Eisenberg’s casting as Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman… Let’s be honest, who saw this one coming? Jesse Eisenberg is playing Lex Luthor is Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman, set for release in 2016, while Jeremy Irons will play Alfred Pennyworth. But what do our […]

Regarded by some as the greatest TV show of all time, The Wire is an almost Shakespearean tale of rival drug gangs in Baltimore, examining how the police, school systems and media interact with them. As a complete and unyielding social commentary on a particular city, it was pretty much unprecedented and still generates interest […]

After working together on Gangs of New York, Deadline are reporting that Liam Neeson (Taken, A Million Ways to Die in the West) and Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo) will reunite for the director’s next film Silence. The movie is an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel about Jesuits attempting to spread Christianity […]

After bumper ratings for its premiere last year, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been bleeding viewers over the first half of its season, so the producers have started pulling out the big guns for the back-nine episodes, with Stan Lee set to cameo, J. August Richards’ Mike Peterson turning into Deathlok, Jaimie Alexander reprising the […]

Well, here’s a shocker… Warner Bros. has announced that Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Now You See Me) has been cast as Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel, with Jeremy Irons (Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Borgias) will play Batman’s trusty butler and father figure Alfred Pennyworth. “Lex Luthor […]

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s 2013 movie This Is The End was, apparently, not the end for that particular cast of comedy actor chums as The Wrap have confirmed a whole bunch of them will reunite to provide voices for Rogen and Goldberg’s next project, the animated movie Sausage Party*. This includes James Franco (Spring […]

We chat with filmmaker Stuart Blumberg about his directorial debut Thanks for Sharing, starring Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Gad, Joely Richardson and Alecia Moore… Q: Tell us about Thanks for Sharing… Stuart Blumberg: Thanks for Sharing is the story of 3 men who are in a 12 step recovery program for sex […]

Alice Rush reviews the season finale of American Horror Story: Coven… It’s that time again where we must say goodbye to the latest series of American Horror Story. It’s fair to say that ‘Coven’ has been a bit of a mix up from the previous two seasons, prising relationships and the theme of female power […]