Samuel Brace wonders where the next great directors will come from… We are in a dilemma. We are in a dilemma right now and it’s a pretty serious one. In fact the more I think about it, the more I pontificate on it, the more it depresses me and it should depress you too. We live […]
Quentin Tarantino plans to write novels and plays after retiring from filmmaking
For the past couple of years, Quentin Tarantino has been suggesting that he’ll call time on his career as a filmmaker after reaching ten movies, and with his eighth film The Hateful Eight now just under a fortnight away from release, the director has reiterated that stance during an interview with THR, as well as […]
Book Review – Rise of The Tomb Raider: The Official Art Book
Martin Carr reviews Rise of The Tomb Raider: The Official Art Book… This coffee table tome is reminiscent of those fancy photographic bibles produced by Taschen. Off limits to those who deemed themselves uncultured enough for a surreptitious browse. Something which Titan have thankfully sidestepped, whilst retaining the quality and discarding that highbrow elitism. To […]
Marvel officially announces Apocalypse Wars event
Last weekend it was revealed that Brazil’s Comic Con Experience that Marvel is set to launch a new X-Men event entitled Apocalypse Wars, and now the publisher has officially announced the arc, which will present three blockbuster stories across Extraordinary X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and All-New X-Men. “In the same vein as the classic event “Fall […]
Fox renews Wayward Pines for second season
FOX has announced that M. Night Shyamalan’s hit series Wayward Pines is set to return for a ten-episode second season in 2016. “Wayward Pines was a huge hit for us this past summer,” states President of Entertainment Fox Broadcasting Company David Madden. “We were absolutely blown away by the mysterious and surprising world that Night and […]
The Week in Spandex – X-Men: Apocalypse, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, The Defenders, Iron Fist, Batman v Superman, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Powers and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men: Apocalypse, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity War, The Defenders, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Batman v Superman: Dawn of […]
Supergirl Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Human For a Day’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Supergirl, ‘Human For a Day’… With Charles Halford under loads of latex this week, Supergirl continues to be worth its network weight in gold. Chiefly because it pulls a Superman II on Melissa Benoist. Yes this is clichéd. Yes I saw it coming in the closing moments of episode […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
The Flickering Myth writing team share their opinion on the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse… Yesterday 20th Century Fox gave us our first official look at May’s big X-Men sequel with the release of the trailer for Bryan Singer’s latest mutant superhero epic X-Men: Apocalypse. What did our writing team make of the trailer? Well, […]
Dwayne Johnson joins Will Gluck action comedy
New Line Cinema has snapped up the rights to an as-yet-untitled action comedy from director Will Gluck (Easy A, Annie) and screenwriter Dave Callaham (The Expendables, Godzilla), which has Dwayne Johnson attached to star. Deadline reports that plot details are being kept under wraps, but its seen as “a throwback to those mismatched buddy action […]
Interview: The Sublet director John Ainslie
Ricky Church chats with The Sublet director John Ainslie… The Sublet director John Ainslie was able to speak to Flickering Myth about his debut feature film. We spoke about the themes of The Sublet, the writing and filming process, working with the stars and his main influences from the horror genre. You can read my […]
