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 […]

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.”Noxon […]

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 hugely […]

Anthony Stokes on the death of the box office movie star….Hollywood just isn’t what it used to be. To the untrained eye it may appear that the movie industry is financially successful because every five months a tent pole hits a billion dollars, but this is far from the case. In actuality Hollywood is making […]

It was revealed last week that Paramount and Warner Bros. had come to a deal which gave Paramount the movie rights to Friday the 13th and South Park (with Warner covering half the costs of either movie) in exchange for 50% of Chris Nolan’s Insterstellar. Well, Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Paramount are also getting into […]

Having given the green light to a third movie in the G.I. Joe franchise as soon as the second hit cinemas earlier this year, Paramount Pictures and MGM have now tapped G.I. Joe: Retaliation director Jon M. Chu to return for the next instalment. At this point in time, it’s unknown which actors will return […]

Friday the 13th fans have a lot to celebrate at the moment. Hot off the news last week that Paramount were looking to commission a brand new Friday the 13th movie, Warner Bros. has announced that the first 12 movies will be released on Blu-ray this coming September – some of which for the very […]

Villordsutch reviews The Walking Dead #111….“Lucille is going to be so jealous.”The more I read of The Walking Dead the more I wish I started reading from issue #1 and also before I clapped eyes on the television series – not that the TV series is overly bad, it’s just not this good.Flowing straight on […]