Thomas Roach on whether Adam Sandler’s deal with Netflix will harm the company…. I personally feel that Netflix is a fantastic service which one day will over take the film industry. Rather than just producing original series, the streaming service is moving into producing its own movies. Netflix and actor Adam Sandler have just made […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Robert Kojder wrote for Flickering Myth yesterday about the tease of Twin Peaks and it’s timing: “For those that haven’t seen the show, there is a critical plot point alluding to the narrative continuing 25 years after its initial ending. Twin Peaks left the air 23 years ago, so […]

Official details of 20th Century Fox’s upcoming reboot to The Fantastic Four have been kept under lock and key with only  few snippets and rumours here and there. One person who has been quite vocal about the movie is The Human Torch Michael B. Jordan, with the actor being very open about the criticisms of his […]

Withnail & I, 1987. Directed by Bruce Robinson. Starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown. SYNOPSIS: Withnail (Richard E. Grant) is an unsuccessful, pill-popping actor; ‘I,’ or Marwood (Paul McGann), is Withnail’s roommate and another equally underemployed actor. The time is 1969: Withnail is fast becoming a burned-out relic of the […]

Surprising many people, The Conjuring spin-off/prequel Annabelle was a box office success over the weekend despite poor reviews from the majority of critics (read our review here). But the possessed doll is not just on the minds of those who have watched it, as it also has grabbed the attention of Don Mancini, the creator of […]

The winning films in all twelve categories were announced at the Raindance Film Festival awards ceremony this Saturday, just as the festival drew to a close this weekend. With record-breaking attendance and a vast number of submissions, of which 100 feature films and 176 shorts were screened at this year’s festival, it seems to be […]

300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Directed by Noam Murro Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro SYNOPSIS: Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Eight years after the Spartans raised hell […]

This coming Wednesday (October 8th), IDW Publishing is collecting the Wonder Woman newspaper comic strip from William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peters for the very first time with a hardcover book that includes the entire strip from May 1st 1944 to December 1st 1945. Just a few years after she burst into comic books, […]

The Beat Beneath My Feet, 2014. Directed by John Williams. Starring Luke Perry, Nicholas Galitzine, Lisa Dillon, Verity Pinter, James Tarpey, Simon Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A boy receives guitar lessons from a washed-up rock god living in the council flat below his, keeping it a secret from his God-fearing mother and the bullies that torment him […]

Although it was assumed when a reboot of The Fantastic Four was announced that Marvel’s First Family would inhabit the same universe as the X-Men – owing in no small part to comments from Mark Millar suggesting as much – producer Simon Kinberg downplayed the possibility back in May, stating that the characters “live in […]