Nafissa Jeetoo gets ready for the apocalypse by looking at ways the world might end according to the movies… December 21st 2012, the last day on the Mayan calendar. It seems the apocalypse is now. But what is an apocalypse meant to be? We live our lives in fear of death, danger and doomsday, but […]

This will come as a surprise to pretty much no one after the announcement that Disney had purchased the rights to the Star Wars franchise, but it seems that the comics are moving over to Marvel (also owned by the House of Mouse) in 2014. According to reliable Disney blog Blue Sky Disney, there will […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye… AUTOBOTS VERSUS DECEPTICONS! The crew of the Lost Light confronts a band of rogue DECEPTICONS—with terrible consequences. “As an AUTOBOT slips closer to death, a single decision sets in motion a chain of events that might just spell the end for RODIMUS […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Mars Attacks… “An exciting new story arc starts here! As human ramp up their defenses, the Martians unleash a new weapon from their arsenal… the freeze ray! Don’t miss any of the action in this runaway hit series!” IDW’s Mars Attacks re-launch for me has been a bit […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; first up is The Blob (1958)… The first of our 60 years of horror reviews begins with movie legend Steve McQueen’s feature debut – the 1958 cult classic The Blob. Made independently and for very cheap, The Blob is a […]

Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns) has secured a deal to develop, produce and perhaps even direct a reboot of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone. According to Deadline, Singer has struck the deal with CBS TV Studios who have the rights to Rod Serling’s original series. There is currently no one attached to write […]

Back in May, James Cameron was quoted as stating that his filmmaking future lay solely on the alien world of Pandora, with the back-to-back sequels Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 potentially followed by a fourth instalment, but now it seems the Academy Award-winner is lining up another future project… and no, sadly it’s not the long-rumoured […]

Road to Hell, 2008. Directed by Albert Pyun.Starring Michael Michael Paré, Clare Kramer, Courtney Peldon, Roxy Gunn, Chris Reject, Ryan Hamman, Jon Mills and Paige Billiot. SYNOPSIS: Albert Pyun’s ode to Walter Hill’s Streets on Fire explores its hero’s dark journey through hell as he seeks the only thing that still matters to him: his […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest prog of 2000 AD… After watching the new film Dredd 3D last month (I thought it was great, but check out Luke Owen and Rohan Morbey’s reviews here and here) I decided to get back into the original comic book 2000AD, starting with Prog 1801. I was a regular reader […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Rohan Morbey with Licence to Kill… By the late 1980s James Bond had become a mere imitation of the character has was in the series’ early entries; Roger Moore’s final turn in A View […]