In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Doctor Strange, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers, Infinity War, Ant-Man, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Agent Carter, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Force, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, The […]
R.I.P. Jason Wingreen, the original voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back
Actor Jason Wingreen, who was perhaps best known for his work as the original, pre-Special Edition voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away aged 95, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Wingreen was a prolific character actor with over 200 credits to his name; he played Harry the bartender in seven […]
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Review
Tom Beasley reviews the bizarre, inventive return of Sherlock to television screens, with The Abominable Bride. There are, of course, SPOILERS AHEAD… Well, Sherlock is definitely back. Whatever your thoughts on ‘The Abominable Bride’, it would certainly be wrong to accuse co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss of phoning it in. The episode, which passed […]
The Week in Disappointment – Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Indiana Jones
Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “George Lucas calls Disney “white slavers”, suggests he’s not a fan of “retro” tone of Star Wars: The Force Awakens“ Remember when George Lucas accused film audiences of being racist because they didn’t turn out to see the awful Red Tails? And you cringed at […]
Alien: Covenant will take place ten years after Prometheus
Considering that Ridley Scott’s initial comments about his Prometheus sequel suggested we’d be picking up the story of Elizabeth Shaw as she heads to the Engineers’ homeworld, it was something of a surprise when Noomi Rapace was absent from the official synopsis for Alien: Covenant. Scott has since revealed that Rapace will cameo in the […]
Star Wars generates $1 billion of video game sales in 2015
It’s not just at the box office where Star Wars is generating huge sums of money, with Forbes reporting that the franchise has pulled in over $1 billion of revenue from video games in 2015, spurred on in no small part by the excitement over Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The site reports that 6 […]
Flickering Myth’s Favourite Video Games of 2015
Flickering Myth’s writing team pick their favourite video games of 2015… There’s no doubt about it, 2015 has been a pretty incredible year for games. In the past 12 months we’ve returned to the wasteland in Fallout 4, saved Gotham one last time with The Dark Knight in Batman: Arkham Knight, Snake returned for one last […]
Disney’s Bob Iger says new Indiana Jones movie is coming
If all the recent talk from Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford wasn’t enough to convince you that Indiana Jones 5 was on the horizon, Disney’s CEO and Chairman Bob Iger has now confirmed that we will be getting a new adventure featuring the iconic adventurer in the wake of the box office success of Star Wars: […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2015
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2015… As 2015 draws to a close, the writing team here at Flickering Myth have been voting on our favourite movies from the past twelve months. As always, each of our writers produces their own individual list, which we then use to calculate our overall […]
Kevin Feige talks Thor: Ragnarok, says Thanos won’t appear in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It’s been a busy week in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Marvel Studios peeling back the curtain on next year’s Doctor Strange [follow all of our coverage here], and now Kevin Feige has been speaking to Empire (via CBM) about two of Marvel’s cosmic Phase Three films in Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy […]
