Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. This retrospective series appears to have laid out Gilliam’s career so far as a series of chapters from a book. In this current chapter which has spanned The Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys, we now arrive in Las Vegas in search of the American Dream, before Gilliam steps […]

Last week we heard that producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) and StudioCanal are planning to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic Escape from New York, and now the NY Daily News is reporting that British actors Tom Hardy (Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises) and Jason Statham (The Expendables 2, Parker) are battling it out for […]

The internet was awash with reports yesterday linking Academy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle to the vacant director’s chair on Bond 24, stemming from a report in The Sun which claimed that Boyle was in the frame because he’d been seen chatting with producer Barbara Broccoli back stage at the Empire Awards on Sunday night. So […]

Scott Davis reports from today’s London press preview of one of 2013’s biggest films: the return of Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 (if you’ve not seen the trailers and TV spots, there are some minor spoilers ahead)… “You’ll never see me coming.” Unlike the legendary villain The Mandarin from the Marvel and Iron Man […]

Last week we heard from Wade Wilson himself, Ryan Reynolds, who offered up a few words about the long-in-development Deadpool movie, stating that the script is “so, so far into the R-rated zone [that] I don’t know if [Fox] would ever risk their reputation doing it.” Well, now screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (G.I. […]

Follwing our interview with Dale Lloyd of Viva VHS, J-P Wooding looks back at his VHS memories… When I was about seven or eight I enjoyed playing outside with my friends a lot but when the weather was bad or we got bored it was a real bonus if I was playing with a couple […]

Good Vibrations, 2012 Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glen Leyburn.Starring Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Ryder, Dylan Moran, Adrian Dunbar and Niall Wright. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of the life of Terri Hooley, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast’s punk-rock scene. The late 70s punk scene of the United Kingdom (or, as we shall […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Trance by selecting their favourite Danny Boyle movies; last up is Victoria Welton with 2010’s 127 Hours… When I saw it was Danny Boyle month here on Flickering Myth – and that we were to put forward our favourite Boyle film, I had no hesitation […]

Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation – Hive… “In the distant future the entire galaxy has been completely assimilated by Borg and it’s king… Locutus! The only hope for the future lies in the past, in the hands of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise-as Picard faces off against the […]

There’s a little under three months to go until director Zack Snyder unleashes his hotly-anticipated Superman reboot Man of Steel, and during a recent promotional interview his new Starz show Da Vinci’s Demons, screenwriter David S. Goyer (Blade, Batman Begins) confirmed that he has seen the final film and “was very happy” with the results, […]