As 2012 draws to a close, we’re already casting our eye towards next year’s cinematic offerings, but before 2013 gets underway it’s time to reflect on the past twelve months as we present our selection of the very best films to arrive on screens over the past year.Like previous years, the team here at Flickering […]

Considering that Warner Bros. is yet to officially announce the movie, never mind appoint a director, it would seem that there’s still a long way to go before DC Comics’ team of superheroes line up together for the studio’s proposed Justice League feature. Still, with Will Beall (Gangster Squad) busy developing a script, and recent […]

Berberian Sound Studio, 2012. Written and Directed by Peter Strickland. Starring Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Layla Amir, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Susanna Cappaellaro, Eugenia Caruso and Antonio Mancino.SYNOPSIS:Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a sound engineer for a UK television and film industry, is mysteriously hired to work on a psychological thriller in Italy. There in the Berberian Sound Studio […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Dorothy Pomerantz writes her interview with Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:“The thing that’s a little frustrating for me is people who aren’t artists look at it like winning the lottery. For me, that’s not what it’s about. There’s an old Vince Lombardi quote, ‘When you get in […]

David Bishop sorts through the multitude of projects on Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming slate to see which ones have a shot at reaching the screen… Visionary director / producer / writer / filmmaking machine Guillermo del Toro has about a million projects on the go. It seems his name is never far away when a […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest news stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel,  Iron Man 3, The Avengers 2, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Fantastic Four, Arrow and more….…As 2013 approaches, Warner Bros. has made one final Academy Awards push for […]

Paul Risker on America’s ‘rape’ of the Scandinavian crime drama… The American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), adapted from Steig Larsson’s first novel of his Millennium Trilogy, follows on the heels of Sweden’s 2009 adaptation and forms part of a trend that has seen a number of Scandinavian crime dramas adapted […]

Having successfully reinvented the Batman movie franchise – and redefined the entire superhero genre – with his Dark Knight trilogy, Christopher Nolan is now busy helping to bring another DC icon to the screen as producer on Zack Snyder’s forthcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan has spoken […]

As we approach the end of 2012, the folks over at TorrentFreak have put together their annual lists of the most pirated movies and TV shows from the past twelve months, which is based upon the number of illegal downloads from various torrent sites.Despite the inclusion of box office behemoths such as The Avengers and […]

With pre-production now well underway on X-Men: Days of Future Past, we’re starting to get an idea of which X-Men veterans will be appearing alongside their younger counterparts from Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class when director Bryan Singer brings Fox’s two X-Men timelines together in 2014. One character we’ll be seeing plenty of is that […]