david j. moore chats with composer Imran Ahmad about his work on the Ford Brothers’ The Dead… Classic zombie films don’t always produce classic scores, but occasionally a classic zombie opus features music that helps define the film. Imagine George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead or Day of the Dead without the iconic source music […]

Anghus Houvouras picks his top five five directors whose output is getting progressively worse and rates their chances of redemption… Some filmmakers age like fine wine.  Others ferment.  Every filmmaker has an occasional miscue or a film that doesn’t live up to expectations.  But there are others who consistently work and yet seem to be […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the third issue of The Superior Spider-Man… It was inevitable.  After making the decision to fundamentally change Spider-Man, there was the lingering suspicion that Marvel Editorial would either try to hit the reset button on the whole concept or give us a more sympathetic and ultimately more endearing Doctor Octopus.  For some […]

Paul Risker reviews the first episode of Sons of Anarchy season five… “Something happens at around 92mph. Thunder headers drown out all sound. Engine vibration travels at a heart’s rate. Field of vision funnels into the immediate, and suddenly you’re not on the road, you are in it, a part of it. Traffic, scenery, cops; […]

The Flickering Myth team share their thoughts about the news that J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII… It’s been just under a week since the news officially broke that Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams was to take on one of sci-fi’s most iconic franchises. This news, which could very well be […]

In his latest ‘State of the Genre’ column, Martin Deer on the reaction to David S. Goyer’s recent comments on Man of Steel… This week David S. Goyer has been speaking to Empire about Man of Steel as we get closer to it’s release on June 14th. For some reason his latest comments, despite being […]

You’d have thought that Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was stacked full of characters, but a tweet yesterday from the director could be teasing an appearance of another one… His tweet simply said “Day 3 #happybirthday” with a photo of a metallic locker. While this may seem like an innocent tweet, the lockers themselves […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the second issue of The Superior Spider-Man… This is a really weird comic.  That is both a ringing endorsement and a declaration of the surreal nature of reading Marvel’s relaunched Superior Spider-Man.  Doctor Octopus has taken over Spider-Man, OR HAS HE!?  At the conclusion of the first issue, we were introduced to […]

Matt Smith reviews the second episode of the new US TV drama The Following… After imprisoning Joe Carroll, Ryan Hardy must find Claire Matthews’ son who has been taken by Carroll’s acolytes. At the same time, he must help the FBI find whoever’s responsible for the murder of numerous women at a university. So, episode […]

For fans of the hugely popular TV Show Entourage, rumours about their favourite fictional characters Vince, Johnny, Eric, Turtle and Ari Gold heading to the big screen have been circling for years now. However, according to Deadline, the script for a feature film version has now been given the official green light from Warner Bros. […]