Having become the highest-grossing instalment of the X-Men franchise in its second weekend, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past has now extended its lead this weekend, with the Bryan Singer-directed sequel crossing the $600 million mark, having pulled in $189.1 million domestically and $420.5 internationally for a total haul to date of $609.6 […]

22 Jump Street, 2014. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, Nick Offerman, Amber Stevens, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Jillian Bell, Ashlyn McEvers, and Richard Grieco. SYNOPSIS: Following their successful high school undercover gig, Jenko and Schmidt go undercover at a State college to […]

Jackson Ball reviews the second episode of Orange Is the New Black Season 2 … After a tense but rewarding season opener, it’s back to prison-life reality as we return to the familiar stomping-ground of Litchfield Penitentiary. Piper’s back from Chicago, but how will her fellow inmates react to her following her brutal attack on […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… The recent UK release of Fruitvale Station has inevitably provoked conversation on this side of the Atlantic, whereby re-reading articles from last year only seems to blur lines further: “Hoping to stir the public, though, the film dances around the facts. Its first problem is how to handle […]

Anghus Houvouras on whether Ant-Man will end the Marvel success streak…. The Marvel movies are beyond successful both with fans and financially. It’s a giant machine of perpetual motion that cranks out money-making, audience pleasing hits. However, at some point, the streak is going to die. One of their films will buck the trend and […]

Last month Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull gave an update on Pacific Rim 2, suggesting that there was nothing to announce with regards to a follow-up to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 kaiju homage. However, speaking to Buzzfeed, del Toro has now revealed that he’s currently working on a script for the sequel alongside Zak Penn, […]

Fruitvale Station, 2013. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Melonie Diaz and Octavia Spencer. SYNOPSIS: An arguably biographical reconstruction of the day leading up to the tragic events that took place at the titular Fruitvale Station on New Years Eve, 2008. Coming from a generation that […]

Well, the search is over… After being turned down by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers), Marvel Studios has finally secured a replacement for Edgar Wright on Ant-Man, with Peyton Reed (The Break-Up) signing on to direct. Meanwhile Adam McKay will also contribute to the script, which […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Big Hero 6, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Gambit, James Cameron’s Spider-Man, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, […]

Tom Jolliffe kicks off a new feature at Flickering Myth entitled The Dusty VHS Corner; first up is a trio of 90s straight-to-video action spectaculars in Grid Runners, Martial Law and Back to Even… Remember when films were on things called video cassettes? Remember when they were sold in rental shops, full to the brim […]