The Flickering Myth writing team sit down to discuss the trailer for Spike Lee’s American remake of Oldboy…. Ah remakes. They’re now an integral part of our film watching experience. Not a year goes by where we don’t hear rumours of new films that are actually films we’ve seen before. Yesterday saw the release of […]

Jackson Ball presents his five essential Powell and Pressburger films… The history of cinema isn’t short of great filmmaking duos. The Coen brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and the Wachowskis are just a few examples of partnerships behind the camera. However, there have been few duos that have influenced the film industry quite like Michael […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Monsters University by picking their favourite Pixar Movies; next up is Villordsutch with Brave… Brave is a fantastic film set in my ancestor’s home of Scotland. I’m half Scottish / half Dutch (all Viking) and worry about my history being altered either by anti-Semitic […]

Yesterday Entertainment Weekly gave us our first official look at Jamie Foxx’s (Django Unchained) villain Electro from Sony’s upcoming sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on the cover of the Comic-Con preview issue, and inside the magazine Andrew Garfield has offered up some interesting – and no doubt tongue-in-cheek – quotes which might go some way […]

With Pacific Rim already being labelled a flop before it even hits cinemas, Anghus Houvouras believes the media is helping to murder movies…. Does negative box office perception affect potential ticket buyers?  Five years ago I would have said ‘no’.  Now I’m not so sure. Crucifixion Principle: When critics and entertainment writers gang up to […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Monsters University by picking their favourite Pixar Movies; next up is Martin Deer with WALL·E…. As the ninth feature film to be released by Pixar, WALL·E had a lot to live up to, and the tiny little robot stands tall and proud. There are […]

Ten years after their big screen appearance, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Victorian-era heroes The League of Extraordinary Gentleman are set to return, with Fox placing an off-season order for a TV pilot from writer-producer Michael Green (Green Lantern, Heroes). Starting its run in 1999, the comic book series focusses on a group of Victorian […]

Luke Owen reviews the final issue of Godzilla… “The devastating conclusion to Swierczynski & Gane’s monster epic is here! Godzilla is battered and beaten but not down for the count… yet his most fearsome foe ever still stands before him! With the end of the world near, Boxer has one final decision to make: to […]

Villordsutch reviews The X-Files Classics Vol. 1… “The truth is… in here! Team up with Mulder and Scully as they unravel mysteries only seen in comic books! This first collection features stories like ‘Not to be Opened Until X-mas’, ‘Firebird’, ‘Trepanning Opera’, ‘Silent Cities of the Mind’ and more.” I can recall many moons ago […]

It’s been nearly twenty years since the original was released, but after lingering in development hell the Farrelly Brothers are returning to their popular characters Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne with Dumber and Dumber To. Development has been up and down, with Jim Carrey in particular speaking about his frustration with it all. But Universal have […]