Marvel Studios has finally ended its search for the lead in the forthcoming Phase Two space epic Guardians of the Galaxy, with Deadline revealing that Chris Pratt has secured the role of Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, the half-human / half-alien leader of the futuristic team of superheroes. Pratt, whose credits include Everwood, Parks and Recreation, […]

Anghus Houvouras with a follow-up to The Five Most Disappointing Films of All Time… About or year or so ago I put together a little op-ed piece, right around the time I first started writing for Flickering Myth. It was a piece I’d been mulling for a few years: The Five Most Disappointing Films of […]

Oliver Davis reviews the sixth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… The Old Gods and the New. Directed by David Nutter. Written by Vanessa Taylor. Last week’s episode felt flat. Neither the writing or direction excelled. Thankfully, The Old Gods and the New is arguably the best episode of Season 2 thus far. It […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… In the business world, there are winners and losers. Sometimes the winners don’t deserve to win and sometimes the losers don’t deserve to lose. That was the story of this week’s Apprentice. Lord Sugar called our teams to a sports hall which is apparently a big […]

Anghus Houvouras on why film fans need to stop their relentless pursuit of the next big thing… The Summer movie season is almost upon us. Even though technically Summer doesn’t start until late June, the big budget popcorn movie machine is already cranking out enormously budgeted blockbusters. We’ve already had a handful of epic productions […]

Joss Whedon has pretty much built his career around strong female characters (see Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse et al) and now – as he prepares to turn his attention to The Avengers’ Black Widow – the director has given USA Today (via Vulture) a detailed account of how he thinks a showdown between […]

We’ve known for the past couple of years that Harrison Ford will be dusting off the fedora once again as director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas attempt to atone for 2008’s underwhelming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a fifth outing for everyone’s favourite archaeologist. Although development appears to […]

Dream House, 2011. Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and Elias Koteas. SYNOPSIS: A couple discover that a brutal crime was committed against the former residents of their idyllic new home. Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are Hollywood’s latest power couple. Together they are more than capable of flying the […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Mark Cousins writes for Sight and Sound this month (S&S, May 2012) about the reaction the audience had towards his epic The Story of Film: An Odyssey. I particularly found the following paragraph interesting: “Slightly more problematic has been IMDb’s billing of The Story of Film as a […]

Sensation, 2010. Written and Directed by Tom Hall. Starring Domhnall Gleeson and Luanne Gordon. SYNOPSIS: Following the death of his father, a young Irishman puts his inheritance to use by hooking up with a Kiwi call girl. The opening minutes of Sensation are not a stimulating thrill ride or a feast for the senses. In […]