Thank Flickering Myth it’s Friday… In Sinister, even the paper is haunted. Sinister Now October’s here, the cinema appears to be going into scare-overdrive. This one’s the latest from “The Producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious,” and shares a similar narrative: nice, white, middle-class family in very haunted house. But, for once, found footage is […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Helen Murdoch with From Russia with Love… From Russia with Love is the only Bond film that was intended as a sequel, yet it surpassed Dr. No and spawned one of the longest running […]

With the release of Paranormal Activity 4 fast approaching, Simon Columb analyses the first entry in the series, Paranormal Activity… “You cannot run from this- it will follow you. It may lay dormant for years. Something may trigger it to become more active and it may over time reach out to communicate with you…“ Introduction I […]

Despite earlier reports linking Anna Kendrick (Twilight) and Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) to the role, Deadline are reporting that directors Anthony and Joe Russo have narrowed their search for the female lead in the upcoming Marvel Studios sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier to five actresses. According to the report, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; first up is Peter Gigg with 007’s first official screen adventure Dr. No… At Le Cercle casino, a sickly fug of tobacco fills the air. The hall is cavernous, strewn with gilt furniture and crystal chandeliers. Attention […]

Now that Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is off to a fine start at the box office, having posted a record June opening in the States, it would seem the stage is set for Warner Bros. to launch its long-awaited DC movie universe. We’ve already heard that Snyder and screenwriter David S. Goyer have been […]

Despite being one of this summer’s most anticipated blockbusters, audience reaction to director Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to the sci-fi genre, Prometheus, was decidedly mixed at best. However, while a number of fans were left underwhelmed by the [not an] Alien prequel, that doesn’t seem to be the case for fellow filmmaker James Cameron, who […]

Promoting his new film Looper at the Toronto International Film Festival this week [read our TIFF review here], The Dark Knight Rises star Joseph Gordon-Levitt was asked whether he’d be keen to don the cape and cowl as Batman for Warner Bros.’ proposed superhero team-up Justice League, which has apparently been earmarked by the studio […]

It’s fair to say that producer Michael Bay’s planned live-action adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get off to the best of starts with fans of the heroes in a half-shell, which of course stemmed from the fact that the Turtles would be reimagined as aliens. While the project has subsequently been delayed, fan […]

Samantha Morrison on Phillippe Grandrieux’s White Epilepsy… This shall not be a review in the traditional sense, as I did not see the entire film. I left out of sheer boredom after half an hour, and I was in fact the third person to do so. So, while I feel that I could not conscientiously […]