With Man of Steel set to arrive in cinemas next week, Anghus Houvouras looks at the ‘controversy’ surrounding the casting of a British actor as the iconic superhero… Americans are a xenophobic lot.  I know this because I’m one of them. And while I don’t share my fellow countrymen’s blind fear of the unknown, I […]

Robb Ghag reviews Thanos Rising #3… “The Mad Titan flees his home in search of true love.But how many lives will he have to take to find it?The book so blood-soaked you’ll be glad it’s a mini-series.” This book is progressively getting better. In the Marvel Universe where everyone is an Avenger or battling their […]

Robb Ghag reviews Age of Ultron #9… “To save the planet Earth – and maybe the entire galaxy! – the heroes of the Marvel Universe made the most controversial decision of their lives. The results have brought disaster the likes of which they have never seen before. And now, with one final chance.can they make […]

Anthony Stokes assesses the career of Sam Raimi… When it comes to genre directors it’s harder to find anyone bigger or more respected then Sir Sam Raimi. He has consistently delivered hit after hit and pretty much everything he touches gains a cult following. Raimi has had a lot of commercial success, headlining multiple franchises […]

Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions has secured the rights to The Stops Along the Way, an unproduced screenplay by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, which was his final completed work before his death in 1975. The project will be produced by Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV and is set to […]

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 Anthony Stokes with a review of 1987’s Superman IV: The Quest for Peace… After the disappointing box office returns of Superman III and the spin-off Supergirl, nobody was in […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews The Superior Spider-Man #11…. “The Spider-Slayer is scheduled for execution and Mayor J. Jonah Jameson is leaving nothing to chance. To ensure that everything goes according to plan, Jameson’s called in the one man he can trust to oversee everything the Superior Spider-Man. Since the startling events of Superior Spider-Man #9, will […]

With Christopher Nolan making a lot of money with his Dark Knight trilogy for Warner Bros., it would make sense for them to keep some sort of working relationship with the director, especially on his new sci-fi movie Interstellar. It was announced in January that both Warner Bros. and Paramount would be distributing the movie, […]

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 Victoria Welton with a review of 1984’s Superman spin-off – Supergirl… Opting to review Supergirl to celebrate the Superman Month for Flickering Myth, I hoped watching it this time […]

Andy Naylor reviews The Colonized #3… “The zombie horde is growing, the aliens and humans are outmanned (and out-alienned), and the citizens of Carbon Falls are beset from all sides. Which all pale before the looming explosive threat brought on from one of their own!“ The Colonzied follows the self-governed town of Carbon Falls and […]