Anthony Stokes on recognition over quality, mediocrity and Last Vegas… I can be pretty hard on certain movies and TV shows, which often leads to people saying “I don’t think it’s that bad” (see Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Amazing Spider-Man, Gangster Squad, The Expendables and Pacific Rim to name a few). These movies and TV […]

The Age of Adaline finally seems to be forming, after months of rumoured casts and directors. Gabriele Muccino (Pursuit of Happiness, Seven Pounds) was once penned to fill the role of director, along with Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up) set to play the eponymous Adaline, but that’s changed once again. Now blonde bombshell Blake Lively (Savages) […]

Michael Bay is currently filming Transformers: Age of Extinction, the sequel literally no one asked for, and today there has been a short delay in filming as a result of incident on the Hong Kong set. According to reports, intruders worked their way onto the set and having been refused $13000 that they’d demanded, they […]

Alice Rush reviews the second episode of American Horror Story: Coven… After last week’s arguably slow start I’ve been waiting for more grit and gore from American Horror Story Coven to sink my teeth into. One of the problems of an anthology series is making sure the pace is right so that the whole narrative […]

Henry Selick (Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas) is known for his dark, yet playful animated features which depict gothic themes in a friendly and satirical form. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Selick is taking a break from the animated world, to create the live-action film A Tale Dark & Grimm. While not animated, the […]

It looks like Hans Zimmer may not be returning to the Man of Steel sequel, with the composer distancing himself from scoring Batman vs. Superman during an interview with Vulture this week. Zimmer has said he feels burned out by sequels after Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, an experience he says “didn’t really […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews Zero #2… “Shanghai, 2019. An opulent skyscraper party full of terrorists looking for fresh funding. Edward Zero is about to sabotage it big time — and then the skyscraper starts to vanish, bit by bit. So maybe he should look into that first?” The concept behind Ales Kot’s new Image series Zero […]

For those hoping that the recently announced Batman vs Superman film might lead to those rumoured Flash and Justice League films, I’m afraid we have some bad news: Flash is potentially heading to TV. Deadline has reported that The CW and Warner Bros. TV will today be discussing the project and getting a pilot episode […]

Martin Deer reviews The Treasures of Bruce Lee: The Official Story of the Legendary Martial Artist…. Paul Bowman, author of The Treasures of Bruce Lee, has written several books of which this is the third on Bruce Lee. The first two, Theorizing Bruce Lee and Beyond Bruce Lee, take analytic looks at the cultural impact […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team discuss their favourite movie soundtracks; next up is Anthony Stokes with Attack the Block… Attack the Block is one of my favorite movies of 2011 simply because of how much it does with so little. All the actors are unknowns, it’s a first time director in Joe Cornish, the budget is […]