The Railway Man, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine and Sam Reid. SYNOPSIS: Decades after being tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, a former British Army officer sets out to confront those he holds responsible. In the […]

Villordsutch chats with comic book artist Chris Burnham about his work on Batman Incorporated and his upcoming projects, including the creator-owned horror title Nameless with Grant Morrison…. Villordsutch: An easy question to start the ball rolling; which comic are you reading at the moment and is it any good? Chris Burnham: 2000AD on my iPad. […]

As well as overseeing the upcoming Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful, Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator) is busy writing the scripts for Daniel Craig’s next two spy adventures in Bond 24 and Bond 25 and IGN caught up with the Skyfall scribe, during which they managed to grab a few comments about the next 007 […]

Jackson Ball on the career resurgence of Matthew McConaughey…. Hollywood is often painted as a cruel, unforgiving place. A place where second chances are few and far-between and if you blow your ‘big break’, you are forgotten instantaneously. It sounds like quite a bleak environment to be around, so it’s always reassuring when someone comes […]

The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Directed by Martin Scorsese.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal. Jon Favreau and Jean Dujardin. SYNOPSIS: Based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort, depicting his rise to wealthy, debauched stockbroker and his fall to drug addict and federal prisoner. Throughout The […]

Roulette, 2012. Written and Directed by Erik Kristopher Myers.Starring Mike Baldwin, Ali Lukowsky and Will Haza. SYNOPSIS: The story of Roulette centers around three characters; Dean Jensen (Mike Baldwin), Richard Kessler (Will Haza), and Sunshine ‘Sunny’ Howard (Ali Lukowski). The three characters all suffer from suicidal thoughts brought on by depression and past events, later discovered to […]

The Flickering Myth writing team discuss the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards… On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards, which you can check out in full here if you haven’t already seen them, or you just want to remind yourself who’ll be contesting […]

After the success of the Halloween-themed Toy Story of Terror!, ABC and Pixar are set to team up again this year for a Christmas Special entitled Toy Story That Time Forgot, which according to Variety will revolve around a “post-Christmas play date for the Toy Story gang where a group of action figures turn out […]

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Zachary Leeman chats with Jack Reher about the upcoming film Endangered, his adaptation of PIN, and the art of screenwriting… Zachary Leeman: Before we get to your upcoming movie Endangered, let’s talk about screenwriting in general. Walk me through the moment you went from aspiring writer to a paid screenwriter with people like Billy Bob Thornton […]