Following the blockbuster success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Disney and Marvel Studios are set to embark on Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this year with the release of Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, with Captain America: The Winter Solider and Guardians of the Galaxy both arriving next year as […]

It could all be over before it’s even really begun for the big screen run of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher character with The Hollywood Reporter claiming that the franchise is unlikely to get a sequel. The film drew a lot of criticism in its early stages with a lot of fans angry at the casting […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of John Byrne’s The High Ways… “Humanity has not yet reached for the stars, but the Solar System is still a busy, exciting, and sometimes very dangerous place, as young Eddie Wallace is about to discover, when he joins the crew of a freighter that hauls cargo along THE […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Chris Cooper with 1987’s Predator… “Run! Go! Get to da choppah!”“Stick around.”“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”“Come on… Come on! Do it! Do it! Come on! Kill me! […]

Simon Columb on the demise of the high street entertainment store… When I was 16 a friend and I were keen to go to the cinema. Checking our change, we were short by mere pennies and were mortified at the prospect of spending another two hours simply hanging about the shopping centre – something we […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest in IDW’s January series – Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbustes “Something even stranger is in the neighbourhood when the restless spirits of some merciless Martians are stirred from their slumber to attack again! It’s up to the REAL Ghostbusters to save New Jersey from this angry red threat. Well… if […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, David Bishop with 1985’s Commando… The 80s were a defining decade for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator, Predator and Conan all helped to launch his career and make him one […]

The Farrelly brothers hit the Hollywood scene back in 1994 with a little comedy called Dumb & Dumber. Many people reportedly turned it down not knowing that it would become a massive hit, but Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did not and now, 19 years later, it looks like the four of them could be […]

We’ve been anxiously awaiting the appointment of a director on Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII for a couple of months now, but while we wait to see who’ll be handed the reins of the next Star Wars trilogy, Vulture are reporting that Disney has turned to Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) to direct a standalone Star […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Django Unchained by selecting their favourite Quentin Tarantino movies; next up is Martin Deer with 1994’s Pulp Fiction… pulp /’palp / n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matterand being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished […]