Paul Tanter, the writer/producer/director behind the Jack Says trilogy and new film The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, talks to Flickering Myth’s Luke Graham about breaking into the industry, making movies and violence in films… Luke Graham: Hi Paul, thanks for agreeing to answer a few questions. I saw The Rise and […]

Luke Owen isn’t ready to be forced over to the Blu-Ray format… This may sound like sacrilege coming from someone who claims to love film, but I’ve not moved over to Blu-Ray yet and don’t intend to do so soon. I don’t think the picture quality is *that* much of an improvement to warrant spending […]

Hugh Laurie (House) is in negotiations to play the villain in RoboCop, MGM’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi classic, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures. Jose Padilha (Elite Squad) is directing the origin story from a script by Josh Zetumer. Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) is set to star as the titular character, a decorated […]

Last week Marvel Animation Studios confirmed that the axe would fall on The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes when show’s second season comes to an end this year, although the news was accompanied by the official announcement of a new animated series entitled Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. It’s hardly a surprising move given the success of Joss […]

Marc Forster’s (Quantum of Solace) film adaptation of Max Brooks’ cult 2006 novel, World War Z, seems to be in a bit of a pickle. Last month it was announced the film would need extensive reshooting, and now The Hollywood Reporter has broken that Damon Lindelof has been brought in to rewrite the film’s final […]

Michael Bay’s big-budget Transformers series may have made an absolute fortune for Paramount Pictures, but it’s also left many long-time fans of the Autobots and Decepticons feeling somewhat disenchanted. So, it’s probably fair to say that there wasn’t too much excitement within the Transformers fan-base when Bay was announced as returning to helm the fourth […]

Martin Deer rounds up all the latest talking points from Man of Steel as we count down to the return of Superman this summer… Today is the first of what will hopefully be five ‘Countdown to Man of Steel‘ articles published every 2 weeks in the build up to the return of Superman. This week […]

With Iron Man 3 kicking off Phase Two of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe in the next couple of weeks, Joss Whedon looks towards its closing chapter. The director really made a name for himself last year with his box office record smashing The Avengers and in an interview with Total Film, he has some thoughts about […]

Throughout April, we’ve been counting down our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s our top 50 in full…. Well, the 2013 superhero season is now underway, with Marvel Studios launching Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe here in the UK yesterday with the release of Iron Man 3 [read […]

Following our interview with Dale Lloyd of Viva VHS, Tom Jolliffe looks back at his VHS memories…Growing up in the 80s, smack back in the birth and rise of video brings back a lot of great memories. Something about video covers just had more impact than DVD covers later would. It was the days of really great hand drawn […]