With his new film Mother’s Day set for release in the UK this Friday (June 10th), Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sat down (well, on the phone at least) to chat with legendary director Garry Marshall (Overboard, Pretty Woman) to discuss his latest effort, some of his most famous projects, and working with the late Robin Williams. […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2…Funded by Netflix but carrying the MTV logo Scream emerges from the rubble of season one where it earned renewal, with some serious backing and bulked up production value. Now it resides on the cable equivalent of HBO, we get a full eighteen […]
Blu-ray Review – Dragnet (1987)
Dragnet, 1987. Directed by Tom Mankiewicz. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Alexandra Paul, Jack O’Halloran, Harry Morgan, Elizabeth Ashley and Debney Coleman. SYNOPSIS: Police Sergeant Joe Friday and his new partner Pep Streebeck investigate a pagan cult causing havoc in Los Angeles. It was the 1980s and buddy cop movies were coming at you […]
Versailles Season 1 Episode 1 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the first episode of Versailles… Raunchy, decadent and overflowing with beautiful French nobility and their gorgeous hair, BBC Two’s new period drama, based on true events, is the Beeb’s answer to blockbuster period shows like Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Sky Atlantic’s The Borgias.A collaborative project between British, French and Canadian studios […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #83 – Football Manager
It takes a steely nerve to put a curly-haired, bearded chap smiling on the cover of something and then expect it to sell well. In truth this only really happens once a decade it being Bob Ross’ (Deceased) turn the decade before. However when Kevin Toms appeared, smiling on the cover of his Football Manager […]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows opens to $69 million
It’s Turtle Power once again as the Heroes in a Half-Shell have topped the US box office, but it’s not pizzas all round.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows [read our reviews here, here and here] opened against romance flick Me Before You and comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping to earn an estimated $35 […]
International screenings save X-Men: Apocalypse at the box office as it crosses $400 million worldwide
Among a sea of mediocre reviews [read ours here, here and here], Bryan Singer’s mutant movie X-Men: Apocalypse has not been performing too well in its domestic release. However its international screenings are really helping push the movie further up the success chart.Now in its second week, X-Men: Apocalypse dropped 66% to $22 million, losing […]
DVD Review – Stone Cold (1991)
Stone Cold, 1991. Directed by Craig R. Baxley Starring Brian Bosworth, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, Richard Gant and Lance Henriksen. SYNOPSIS: Joe Huff, a suspended, tough guy cop, is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the Brotherhood, a white supremacist biker gang planning revenge after one of their crew is sentenced to life in […]
Warcraft movie earns $70 million at the box office ahead of its domestic release
Having opened in several territories last week to $31 million, Duncan Jones Warcraft (or Warcraft: The Beginning) [read our review here] has doubled its box office in its second week of release.The movie was released in several more international territories including Spain, Italy and a full release in the UK and brought its box office […]
Sundance London 2016 – The Intervention (2016)
The Intervention, 2016.Written and directed by Clea DuVall. Starring Cobie Smulders, Natasha Lyonne, Melanie Lynskey, Clea DuVall, Jason Ritter, Ben Schwartz, Vincent Piazza and Alia Shawkat.SYNOPSIS:A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.In a slight […]
