Ricky Church chats with David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira about their new film Guest of Honour… Over the Toronto International Film Festival, I got the chance to speak with David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira, who both star as father and daughter in Atom Egoyan’s latest film Guest of Honour. The film sees Thewlis […]
Robert Rodriguez and Diego Boneta team for comic book adaptation El Gato Negro
Alita: Battle Angel director Robert Rodriguez is teaming with Terminator: Dark Fate actor Diego Boneta for El Gato Negro, a TV adaptation of the Mexican comic book series by creator Richard Dominguez. The project, which is set up at the Apple TV+ streaming service, tells the intergenerational exploits of two crime fighters in South Texas […]
The Umbrella Academy enrols three new cast members for season 2
Netflix’s superhero drama series The Umbrella Academy has added three new cast members for its second season, with Deadline reporting that Ritu Arya (Humans), Yusuf Gatewood (Good Omens) and Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man) have signed on to star in the small screen adaptation of the Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba comic book. Arya […]
Big Chief Studios’ James Bond and Dr. No collectible figures revealed
Sideshow has released promotional images for Big Chief Studios’ James Bond and Dr. No collectible action figures, based on the likenesses of Sean Connery and Joseph Wiseman in 007’s first big screen adventure from 1962; check them out here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles James Bond is dispatched to Jamaica to investigate the […]
Toni Collette joins Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley
With filming expected to begin early in the New Year, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) continues to assemble his cast for his next feature Nightmare Alley, with Hereditary and Knives Out star Toni Collette the latest to sign on for the adaptation of the 1946 William Lindsay novel. “Guillermo is a […]
Michael Fassbender to star in Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
Before he returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for 2021’s Thor: Love & Thunder, New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi is set to direct a feature adaptation of the 2014 football documentary Next Goal Wins, and Deadline brings word that Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is closing a deal to lead the cast. Next Goal Wins […]
Netflix casts its Young Wallander
Back in November of last year it was reported that Netflix is teaming with Yellow Bird UK, the company behind the BBC’s Wallander, for a new original prequel series based upon Henning Mankell’s bestselling book series entitled Young Wallander. Well, we now have the first official casting news on the six-part series, with Swedish actor […]
Netflix Review – Mindhunter Season 2
Hasitha Fernando reviews the second season of Mindhunter… Ever since I concluded watching season one of Mindhunter, I was fraught with impatience to return to its twisted sepulchral world, populated with depraved serial killers and the heinous deeds they commit. So, after twenty-two painstaking months of waiting and speculating, here we are. And now the […]
First image from Alex Garland’s Devs featuring Sonoya Mizuno
FX has released the first image from Devs, the upcoming limited series from Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, which features actress Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina) who stars as Lily Chan, a young computer engineer who investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she […]
Absolute Carnage and The Walking Dead lead bestselling comics and graphic novels of August 2019
Marvel enjoyed another big month in August, with the publisher topping the Diamonc Comic Distributors direct sales chart with Absolute Carnage #1, followed closely by its 80th anniversary celebration Marvel Comics #1000. Meanwnile, The Walking Dead Vol. 32 – the final collection in the long-running zombie series – proved unsurprisingly to be the bestselling graphic […]
