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 […]

It is a sad, sad piece of news for us to report, but Richard Matheson has passed away at the age of 87. When talking about the accomplishments of Richard Matheson, it’s really hard to know where to start. His novels included I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come and Hell House […]

Remember Ghostbusters III? Well apparently it’s still going ahead. Despite the first instance of the movie being mentioned shortly after the release of Ghostbusters II in 1989, Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman have been struggling to get the movie into production. After having gone through several scripts and writers, it appears as though they are working […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the first episode of The Walking Dead season 3… Season Two of The Walking Dead was exceptional at points but never seemed as exciting as the first. There were a few amazing set pieces (notably the season’s finale) and some wonderful characters introduced, but the pace was ultimately too slow at points. […]