Lewy Buck reviews Frostpunk… I’ve always been a huge fan of city builders and I’ve been lucky enough to have reviewed two of my favourites here on Flickering Myth> both Banished and Kingdoms and Castles have kept me up until the early hours of the morning clicking away and telling myself I’ll go to sleep […]
Preview of Jeepers Creepers #1
The Creeper comes to comic books this Wednesday with the release of Jeepers Creepers #1 from Dynamite Entertainment; check out a preview of the issue here… Grad student Devin Toulson is writing his dream thesis on Myths in American History, but when his research takes him on a journey reaching back centuries, Devin finds something […]
DVD Review – Pyewacket (2017)
Pyewacket, 2017. Directed by Adam MacDonald. Starring Nicole Muñoz, Laurie Holden, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne, James McGowan, Bianca Melchior, and Neil Whitely. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl summons a witch to kill her unstable mother after the death of her father. The proverb that begins ‘Be careful what you wish for…’ has been the basis for […]
First trailer for Gillian Flynn adaptation Sharp Objects starring Amy Adams
HBO has debuted a teaser trailer from the upcoming small screen adaptation of Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s novel Sharp Objects. The mystery drama series stars Amy Adams a reporter returning to her home town to cover the violent murder of two preteen girls, alongside Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Elizabeth Perkins and Matt Craven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgljcMqPG98 […]
DVD Review – Acts of Vengeance (2017)
Acts of Vengeance, 2017. Directed by Isaac Florentine. Starring Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, Cristina Serafini, Lillian Blankenship, Clint Dyer, and Robert Forster. SYNOPSIS: A lawyer takes a vow of silence as he goes on the hunt for whoever killed his wife and daughter. Now that Liam Neeson has stepped back from the revenge/action […]
Young Sheldon Season 1 Episode 19 Review – ‘Gluons, Guacamole, and the Color Purple’
Martin Carr reviews the nineteenth episode of Young Sheldon… As ever the deep-rooted issues being explored in Young Sheldon are not always obvious. Intellectual insecurities amongst rival siblings, familial self-sacrifice for their genius prodigy or romantic encounters initiated for similar reasons are all addressed. Quirky, off kilter but no less endearing for all that, episode […]
The Rock hangs on for dear life on new Skyscraper poster
Universal Pictures has released a new poster for the upcoming action thriller Skyscraper which features Dwayne Johnson’s Will Ford perilously hanging one-handed from the side of a building in a state of destruction; check it out here… Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary’s Skyscraper as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war […]
Gotham Season 4 Episode 19 Review – ‘To Our Deaths and Beyond’
Martin Carr reviews the nineteenth episode of Gotham season 4… I wish people would make up their minds. If you want to be dead, if you want to pass on a sacred power and if you want this all to go off without a hitch then try to avoid doing it in Gotham. This would […]
Kelly Macdonald tries to piece together her life in Puzzle trailer
The first trailer has arrived online for Puzzle, a new drama from director Marc Turtletaub, which sees Kelly Macdonald leading a cast that includes Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler, Austin Abrams, and Liv Hewson. Check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF-EbXR7Ui4 Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) has been a devoted housewife for decades, living a quietly sheltered life […]
Comic Book Review – Hollow Monsters #1
Michelle Herbert reviews Hollow Monsters #1… In 1982 we meet Jay, when he is still a child, here we really get to see how his mind works, how he is gripped by fear after his safe neighbourhood is vandalised. From there the book swings between Jay’s remembered past to his present, at the same time […]
