As Above, So Below, 2014. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. Starring Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert and Ali Marhyar. SYNOPSIS: When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. Hunting […]

Yesterday it was reported that Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) was in line to take on the role of Snake Plisskin in the reboot of the John Carpenter classic, Escape From New York. While over to promote his new film The Guest (read our review here), Stevens told Flickering Myth that there was no truth to […]

Corbo, 2014. Directed by Mathieu Denis. Starring Anthony Therrien, Antoine L’Écuyer, Karelle Tremblay, Tony Nardi, Jean-François Pronovost, Dino Tavarone, Marie Brassard, Francis Ducharme, and Simon Pigeon. SYNOPSIS: A teenage Quebecer in the 1960s evolves from pro-independence activist to radical terrorist. The prologue talks about how French Quebecers were discriminated by the English minority resulting in the majority […]

Waste Land, 2014. Directed by Pieter Van Hees. Starring Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods, Babetida Sadjo, Peter van den Begin, and Mourade Zeguendi. SYNOPSIS: A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder. A child peacefully sleeps in his bed while a rabbit nightlight glows on […]

Anthony Hodgson on his three greatest book to movie adaptations… American Psycho Author, Bret Easton Ellis. Screenplay, Mary Harron & Guinevere Turner. Upon its original publication in 1991, American Psycho was marred by controversy, and it’s no surprise considering one of the chapters is called ‘Killing Child at Zoo’, which was sensibly not included in […]

Spoiler alert! According to the Wall Street Journal, legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki will receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in November. This will mark the second Oscar on Miyazaki’s mantle, the first of which was for his 2001 film Spirited Away, which took home […]

Dinosaur 13, 2014. Directed by Todd Douglas Miller. SYNOPSIS: Documentary that tells the dramatic, and at times unbelievable, story of how the largest and most complete T-rex fossil discovery affected the people who discovered her. Dinosaur 13 tells the story of the small group of fossil lovers, led by brothers Peter and Neal Larsen, who […]

Without much competition and a slow Labor Day Weekend, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy topped the US box office for a second week. Guardians of the Galaxy is now the biggest movie of the year, beating out Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction having added another $16.3 million over […]

After a huge build up, this week sees the release of the first issue of Marvel’s four-part miniseries Death of Wolverine, which is set to kill off the fan favourite X-Man. Of course, death means very little in the world of comic books, but according to writer Charles Soule, there are currently no plans to […]

Having already become the highest grossing instalment in the franchise, Fox’s simian sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has now crossed $600 million at the global box office, with an opening weekend of $47 million in China helping to push the film to an impressive $611 million to date. Apes is the sixth […]