Battle for Sevastopol, 2015. Directed by Sergey Mokritskiy. Starring: Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Joan Blackham, Oleg Vasilkov and Anatoliy Kot. SYNOPSIS : A biographical film charting the story of Soviet Ukrainian Lyudmila Pavlichenko, one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The joint Russian and Ukrainian production of The Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol) […]
Game of Thrones: The Night King is not who we thought…
Tony Black on the identity of the Night King… Well now. Who saw this coming? This weeks Game of Thrones, in the middle of a season now definitively outpacing George R.R. Martin’s books, raced thick and fast toward not only some serious character development but equally some enormous revelations about the dense, fascinating mythology underpinning […]
Geoff Johns confirms that he’s working on a Batman movie with Ben Affleck
Last week it was announced that Warner Bros. has enlisted DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns to head up a new division DC Films in order to oversee the DC Extended Universe. Johns has long been rumoured to be collaborating with Ben Affleck on a script for a Batman solo movie, and he’s now confirmed […]
Alcon Entertainment developing CG-animated Garfield movie
Alcon Entertainment has snapped up the big screen rights to Garfield, and is planning on creating a series of fully CG-animated features based upon Jim Davis’ grumpy feline character. “Jim Davis’s creation has been an international sensation for all ages for decades, and we are thrilled to bring an animated Garfield feature to the big […]
Person of Interest Season 5 Episode 6 Review – ‘A More Perfect Union’
Ricky Church reviews the sixth episode of Person of Interest season 5… While not much really happened in Person of Interest’s ‘A More Perfect Union’, it definitely served as a calm before the storm, giving both the characters and audience a bit of a breather before the endgame truly begins. The case-of-the-week wasn’t too interesting, […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
John Carpenter to executive produce new Halloween movie
Horror master John Carpenter is set for a return to the Halloween franchise, with the filmmaker set to executive produce a new instalment in the slasher series for Miramax and Blumhouse Productions. “Thirty-eight years after the original Halloween I’m going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all,” said […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #96 – Cruising on Broadway
Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing with the countdown we arrive at No. 96 and with this we hit Cruising on Broadway from Solarsoft, released way back in 1983. With the box art and title – seen above – you’d probably be expecting something flash and filled to the back […]
Exclusive Interview: James Bobin, director of Alice Through The Looking Glass, on sequels, Sacha Baron Cohen and MIB 23
With the release of the anticipated Disney sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass only a few days away across both sides of the Atlantic, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis got the chance to sit down with the film’s director James Bobin (The Muppets, Flight of the Conchords) to discuss the making of the sequel. SEE […]
DVD Review – The Big Short (2015)
The Big Short, 2015. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, Max Greenfield, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Tracy Letts, John Magaro, Jeremy Strong, Marissa Tomei, Karen Gillan, Stanley Wong, Byron Mann, Margot Robbie, and Selena Gomez. SYNOPSIS: Four denizens of the world of high-finance predict […]
