In what is surely the most ridiculous news story of the day, it’s being reported that the “success” of Sharknado and Discover Channel’s record-breaking ‘Shark Week’ ratings has convinced Universal Pictures to give the green light to a reboot of Steven Spielberg’s seminal 1975 blockbuster Jaws. Now, before you all set off for Hollywood with […]

Despite hitting UK cinemas in just two-and-a-half months time, cameras are still rolling on Marvel’s next Phase Two offering as Thor: The Dark World undergoes its latest round of reshoots. Of course, given the rumours about a rift between Marvel Studios and director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones), this would seem to indicate trouble for […]

Martin Deer reviews the latest episode of Breaking Bad (spoilers within)… Since the mid-season finale of season 5 ended several months ago with the most almighty of cliffhangers, with Walter White’s brother-in-law discovering the Walt Whitman book with recently deceased former chemist, Gale Boetticher’s love letter to WW in it and the penny dropping on […]

Tom Jolliffe on the trials and tribulations of making a film… The film, the team and the lowdown: Aside from my time offering my sage (stop laughing) film criticism for Flickering Myth, I have an ambition to become a screenwriter, so that another member of the team here can offer sage criticism on a film […]

Anghus Houvouras on the ever-growing online army of Hollywood Haters… Misery Index. A phrase I use when cataloging all the horrors and hyperbolic ramblings I come across online.  Those negative, bile spewing citizens of this digital community who only seem to be able to express themselves with anger.  Some artists work in oils.  Others in […]

Anthony Stokes asks whether Christopher Nolan is both the best and worst thing to happen to comic book movies…. In a recent interview, writer Damon Lindelof (Prometheus, Star Trek Into Darkness) made a statement about Christopher Nolan’s influence on the comic book movie industry: “Christopher Nolan is the greatest thing that ever happened to comic […]

Ahead of Disney’s D23 Expo (which gets underway today), Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer John Lasseter has been talking about the studio’s upcoming animated projects with Entertainment Weekly, including the first Marvel-inspired animated feature Big Hero 6, which is due to hit cinemas in November 2014. “[Big Hero 6] is based upon a […]

Before Warner Bros. announced that it was to bring together DC’s two most iconic superheroes for Superman vs Batman, a rumour emerged tipping Mark Strong (Kick-Ass, Green Lantern) for the role of Lex Luthor in the Man of Steel sequel. Now the British actor has hinted that their could be some truth in the speculation, […]

Jackson Ball asks whether 2013’s blockbusters have let us down…. Cast your minds back to April of this year; Iron Man 3 was just about to hit cinemas and was being heralded as the ‘beginning of Blockbuster Season’. Back then, of course, anticipation was bubbling over for a most promising summer of films: a Star […]

Earlier this week, Sylvester Stallone took to Twitter to reveal that Bruce Willis would not be back as Mr. Church in The Expendables 3 due to him being “greedy and lazy… a sure formula for career failure.” Now The Hollywood Reporter has uncovered the details behind Willis’ departure, with a source claiming that the Die […]