Before Ridley Scott decided to press ahead with his Prometheus sequel / Alien prequel Alien: Covenant, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp was gearing up to enter the Alien universe with a sequel to the first two movies, which would have saw Sigourney Weaver returning as Ripley alongside her Aliens co-star Michael Biehn as Hicks. Although […]
Movie Review – David Bowie Is (2013)
David Bowie Is, 2013. Directed by Hamish Hamilton and Katy Mullan. SYNOPSIS: A documentary tying in to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum’s David Bowie Is exhibition”. A lot of well deserved praise has been heaped on the work and life of David Bowie since his very sad death in January this year. However, in 2013, […]
Darth Vader headlining new Star Wars VR experience from Lucasfilm and David S. Goyer
During yesterday’s MEET ILMxLAB: The Future of Immersive Entertainment panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe, Lucasfilm announced that it is developing a new VR story/experience centred on the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader, which is being scripted by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Man of Steel). What character is so iconic that we […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #42 – The Hobbit
With the pulse pounding from the truly fantastic Midnight Resistance we can today give ourselves a well earned rest, as we’ve come across our first text-based adventure in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Here is also the game which perhaps spawned the first internet meme, before internet meme’s became a thing (and technically the internet), […]
Rumour: James Franco wanted for Shane Black’s The Predator
With Shane Black’s The Predator deep in pre-production ahead of its February 2018 release, Jeff Sneider is reporting on Meet the Movie Press that James Franco is being lined up for the lead role in the franchise revival. Franco is the first name to be rumoured for the cast of The Predator, although Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
David Yates talks Fantastic Beasts sequel, confirms that J.K. Rowling has already written the script
With the November release of Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them drawing ever-closer, director David Yates has confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that writer J.K. Rowling has already penned the script for the sequel, which is planned as the middle instalment of a trilogy. “We’ve seen the script for Part […]
Christopher Lambert says Mortal Kombat reboot is actually a sequel and will feature time travel
A couple of weeks ago we brought you a rather dubious rumour / fan-casting for New Line Cinema’s long-gestating Mortal Kombat reboot, and now we’ve got another report which seems equally outlandish, although this one comes from the mouth of actor Christopher Lambert, who portrayed the thunder god Raiden in the 1995 original. According to […]
Exclusive Interview with RJ Lackie & Steph Ouaknine, producers of Inhuman Condition
In an exclusive interview, Flickering Myth’s Tony Black sat down with his old friend RJ Lackie, series creator and writer of web series Inhuman Condition we recently featured, and fellow producer Steph Ouaknine, to talk how the production came to be, and the future of web series development… Obvious first question, but where did the […]
Video Game Preview – Overcooked
Lewy Buck previews Overcooked… Back in April I was lucky enough to have Overcooked wet my pallet at EGX Rezzed at London’s Tobacco Dock; it received some amazing feedback and even placed in the top five games over the weekend Rivalling developers such as Sony and Sega. Check out my video review for Overcooked below… […]
Movie Review – Tale of Tales (2015)
Tale of Tales, 2015. Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones and Vincent Cassel. SYNOPSIS: From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the […]
