Chris Cooper reviews the latest in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series… “Mutants new and old make for a combustible mix! The Turtles are stuck in the middle of an unfolding brawl that could affect mutantkind forever! Will Hob’s army be destroyed before it even begins? Alopex, Nobody, Pigeon Pete…who will be the victor?” 40 […]
Guillermo Del Toro gives us Pacific Rim 2 plot details
Warning – spoilers for Pacific Rim below… Having made $411 million worldwide at the box office, it was inevitable that a sequel for Pacific Rim would be in the works, despite the rather definitive editing. So, just how will Guillermo Del Toro continue the story? In an interview with Collider, Del Toro has given us some […]
Movie Review – Stations of the Cross (2014)
Stations of the Cross, 2014. Directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. Starring Lea van Acken, Moritz Knapp, Lucie Aron, Florian Stetter, Anna Brüggemann and Franziska Weisz. SYNOPSIS: Fourteen-year-old Maria, a pious Roman Catholic girl living in a “sinful” modern world, attempts to become a saint by following in Jesus’ footsteps on his way to Calvary. Remember Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, […]
Movie Review – Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
Horrible Bosses 2, 2014 Directed by Sean Anders Starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Pine, Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey SYNOPSIS: Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don’t go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a […]
Comic Book Review – Roche Limit #3
Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit #3… Moscow pays a visit to the ghouls while Alex and Sonya get their hands on Guthrie. A strange sickness emerges. Disparate threads are starting to come together in this story as several of our protagonists cross paths. The biggest revelation regards what Recall does to people, as it becomes […]
Second Opinion – The Homesman (2014)
The Homesman (2014) Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, John Lithgow, Hailee Steinfield, Jesse Plemons, Tim Blake Nelson, William Fitchner, Meryl Streep SYNOPSIS: Ably independent yet desperate to nurture a family, Mary Bee Cuddy agrees to transport three women maddened by trauma across the country, enlisting […]
Comic Book Review – 2000AD Prog 1909
Oliver Davis reviews 2000AD Prog 1909… Borag Thung, Earthlets! We begin with an ending. The ending of Kingdom, to be precise – and the story of how Gene the Hackman found it. Beyond mindless action and a consistent (if irritating) dialect, there is little to enjoy in Dan Abnett’s tale of mutant dogs fighting a […]
Jurassic World trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction
The Flickering Myth team react… Released upon the world yesterday (a couple of days early no less!), we finally got our first look at Jurassic World. But what did our the Flickering Myth writing and editorial staff think of it? Kris Wall: Dinosaurs and Chris Pratt – SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY. I’m more […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 tops the UK box office chart with biggest opening weekend of 2014
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd November 2014… Exactly a year after its predecessor topped the chart, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 debuted in first place at the UK box office, pulling in £12,654,109 – accounting for 2 out of every 3 cinema tickets […]
Herculean Task: Weta Workshop & Hercules
With the Director’s Cut arriving on DVD & Blu-Ray for Hercules on December 1, 2014 in the UK, Trevor Hogg chats with Paul Tobin about the concept design work contributed by the Weta Workshop… “We first got involved with Hercules [2014] back in 2007,” explains Weta Workshop Senior “Designer Paul Tobin. “At the time, Hercules was […]
