Leaving the Ping Pong paddles on Imagine’s virtual table and walking off towards the next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, we arrive at number 52 which is Jumping Jack. On first glance you’ll probably balk at it on graphics alone – for this is an amazingly basic looking game – but after a […]
Comic Book Review – Throwaways #1
Mark Allen reviews Throwaways #1… THROWAWAY (n.) 1. A disposable asset, used for a single mission; 2. A disavowed assassin, meant to die alongside their target. Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people—Abby a vet with severe PTSD and Dean a burnout trying to escape the shadow of his infamous father—when they are […]
UDPATE: Teenager Riri Williams to suit up as Marvel’s new Invincible Iron Man
Marvel has announced that teenager Riri Williams is set to suit up as the Armored Avenger of the Marvel NOW! era as writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Stefano Caselli team up for the new ongoing series Invincible Iron Man! “We’re in the middle of a very big Tony Stark storyline – actually three storylines […]
Looks like we’ll have a little longer to wait for Game of Thrones season 7
We already known we’re getting a shortened season when Game of Thrones returns, and it seems we’ll also have to wait a little longer before the epic fantasy series returns to HBO, as showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have revealed that season seven won’t be premiering in its usual April slot. “[W]e don’t have […]
Exclusive interview with Bed of the Dead director Jeff Maher
Ricky Church chats with Bed of the Dead director Jeff Maher… The upcoming horror film Bed of the Dead features two young couples out for night of debauchery at the city’s oldest sex club find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where getting off means suffering a gruesome fate. Upon calling the police they […]
Special Report – Flickering Myth Goes Tribal to Celebrate The Legend of Tarzan
Waiting by the Woodland Ways standard in Oxfordshire, the air was still, peaceful, and atmospheric. Adam, one of the day’s instructors, brought me through the lone gate and away from any sign of civilisation – into the unknown. There were six of us in the group alongside the two instructors for the day. We were […]
Exclusive Interview: Writer-director Rebecca Miller discusses Maggie’s Plan
Acclaimed dramedy Maggie’s Plan is released in UK cinemas this Friday [read our ★★★★ review here] and writer-director Rebecca Miller has been chatting to Flickering Myth’s Freda Cooper about the film and how she became involved. Maggie’s Plan marks Miller’s first film since 2009’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and when she first discovered […]
You Should Be Watching… Casual
Tony Black on why you should be watching Casual… Be honest, you’ve done online dating, haven’t you? I bet you have. I certainly have, infact I was lucky enough to meet the woman I’ve been with for over a year and will likely spend the rest of my life with via online dating. I bet […]
Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #1
Tony Black reviews Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #1… For the Cybermen’s 50th-anniversary… YOU WILL BE DELETED! Exiled from Gallifrey at the very end of Time, Rassilon, fallen leader of the Time Lords, has been captured by the last of the Cybermen. Now the Cybermen have access to time travel. With it, every defeat […]
John Carpenter slams The Walking Dead
It may be TV’s highest-rated series and have a legion of fans, but it seems that legendary filmmaker John Carpenter isn’t too fond of AMC’s hit zombie drama The Walking Dead. “[The Walking Dead] was a movie that George A. Romero made back in 1968,” said the Halloween and The Thing director on Marc Maron’s […]