Red State, 2011. Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Melissa Leo, Michael Parks, Stephen Root and John Goodman. SYNOPSIS: Three teens get more than they bargained for when they respond to an online sex advertisement, which leads them to a group of religious fundamentalists with a sinister hidden agenda. ‘Written […]

Quatermass and the Pit (US: Five Million Years to Earth), 1967. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover. SYNOPSIS: When a Martian spacecraft linked to the origins of humanity is discovered at a London tube station, only Professor Bernard Quatermass is capable of unravelling its mysteries. If […]

Curling King (a.k.a. Kong Curling), 2011. Directed by Ole Endresen. Starring Atle Antonsen, Jan Sælid, Jon Øigarden, Linn Skåber and Ane Dahl Torp. SYNOPSIS: Years after being banned from the sport, a former curling champion comes out of retirement in the hope of raising funds to pay for a life-saving operation for his old coach. […]

Apple co-founder and former Pixar Animation Studios chief executive Steve Jobs passed away yesterday after losing a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56. Born in San Francisco, California in 1955, Jobs went on to become one of the most successful entreprenuers of the digital age after forming Apple, Inc. in the mid-1970s, and was […]

Lionsgate have secured the movie rights to the first-person zombie-fighting video game Dead Island, from its developers Deep Silver. Released earlier this month, Dead Island sees a group of survivors at a beach resort threatened by an undead plague ravaging the outside world. The teaser trailer for the game is the “primary creative inspiration” for […]

This evening Flickering Myth were one of a number of sites invited to take part in a virtual roundtable interview with Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers, co-directors of The Lion King, to discuss the 3D re-release of the animated Disney classic ahead of its arrival here in the U.K. on October 7th. The resulting two-hour […]

Writer Seth Grahame-Smith and producer David Katzenberg’s company KatzSmith Productions has signed a two-year first-look deal at Warner Bros. One of their first projects is expected to be a sequel to Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s supernatural comedy from 1988, which starred Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. The planned film is intended to […]

Moon, 2009. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey (voice). SYNOPSIS: An isolated lunar astronaut begins to lose his grip on reality in a cerebral sci-fi thriller. Moon is an independent sci-fi film directed by Duncan Jones (the son of David Bowie… that’s not relevant at all, just an interesting fact!). It […]

After falling out with just about everyone in Hollywood off the back of star Edward Norton’s re-editing of American History X, director Tony Kaye has found it mighty difficult to follow up his acclaimed feature film debut. However, it looks as if the British filmmaker is finally set for a breakthrough with the announcement today […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Euan Ferguson writes in The Observer about the recent TV and, crucially, the outstanding This Is England ’88: “Tellingly, I thought, the hugs said it all. When members of the old bunch hugged, even after estrangement, it was real. When Woody and new girl Jen tried to group-hug […]