Whiplash, 2014. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell and Nate Lang. SYNOPSIS: A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential. “There are no two […]

The Flickering Myth writing staff react to Marvel and DC’s line-up of movies… It’s been an exciting few weeks for comic book movie fans with both Marvel and DC announcing their line-up of movies for the next 6 years. If you fancy feeling a bit ill, just think how old you’ll be when Cyborg comes […]

Flickering Myth get scary… Happy Halloween guys and ghouls! To celebrate the most feared of all holidays, we at Flickering Myth decided to count down the greatest horror movies of all-time. Twenty of our writers and editors voted for their personal top tens with the scores being counted and verified to create this following list. Agree […]

Nightcrawler, 2014. Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo and Riz Ahmed. SYNOPSIS: A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism. “If you want to win the lottery, you have to earn the money to buy a ticket”: one of the first things our […]

Anthony Stokes praises Shia LaBeouf… I like to think that I’m pretty good in seeing the best in actors. I watched Bradley Cooper in Limitless and said “this guy is going to win an Oscar some day”. I also defended Channing Tatum when people were saying he couldn’t act, and now he’s got legitimate Oscar […]

We already knew that Tom Hiddleston’s Loki would be back for Thor 3, given the cliffhanger ending to Thor: The Dark World, and it seems the God of Mischief will also have a role to play in the two-part Avengers: Infinity War, Digital Spy is reporting. Loki’s inclusion in Infinity War isn’t too surprising given […]

Your US Weekend Box Office Report for 31st October – 2nd November 2014… Despite it being the weekend for scary movies, it was Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler that topped the US Box Office charts – just squeaking over a victory over last week’s number one Ouija. However, it was a very slow weekend for the box […]

Having already become the highest-grossing comic book movie of 2014, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is now celebrating another box office milestone, with the film having overtaken Disney’s Maleficent to become the second biggest movie of the year. The space opera has now banked $765.1 million compared to Maleficent’s $757.4 million, although Transformers: Age of […]

Last week, Marvel Studios caused quite the stir among the fan community by announcing the line-up for Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now it has been revealed that – as usual – most of the upcoming films will be opening here in the UK a little earlier than across the Pond. Thanks […]