“I’ve been interested in doing caricatures for as long as I can remember,” states illustrator Kevin Greene as to the origins of his interest in the caricature art form. “I was a huge fan of Al Hirschfeld and Bruce Stark (who recently passed away). They both did TV Guide covers which my parents subscribed to, […]

Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, Lawless) is set to star in the first film from the newly relaunched marketing and distribution company Picturehouse. Metallica: Through The Never, written and directed by Nimrod Antal (Predators), will feature the rock band and focus on DeHaan as a member of their crew. He is sent on an urgent mission while […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Django Unchained by selecting their favourite Quentin Tarantino movies; next up is Kirsty Capes with 2003’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1… Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is a bit like a bull in a china shop. There is supposed structure in the narrative form, with each […]

Following the blockbuster success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Disney and Marvel Studios are set to embark on Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this year with the release of Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, with Captain America: The Winter Solider and Guardians of the Galaxy both arriving next year as […]

It could all be over before it’s even really begun for the big screen run of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher character with The Hollywood Reporter claiming that the franchise is unlikely to get a sequel. The film drew a lot of criticism in its early stages with a lot of fans angry at the casting […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of John Byrne’s The High Ways… “Humanity has not yet reached for the stars, but the Solar System is still a busy, exciting, and sometimes very dangerous place, as young Eddie Wallace is about to discover, when he joins the crew of a freighter that hauls cargo along THE […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Chris Cooper with 1987’s Predator… “Run! Go! Get to da choppah!”“Stick around.”“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”“Come on… Come on! Do it! Do it! Come on! Kill me! […]

Trevor Hogg chats with film editor William Goldenberg about working with Ben Affleck and the challenges of assembling Argo… “Ben [Affleck] was a much more sophisticated director on Argo [2012] than he was on Gone Baby Gone [2007],” observes William Goldenberg who assembled the directorial debut as well as the third effort from the Hollywood […]

Simon Columb on the demise of the high street entertainment store… When I was 16 a friend and I were keen to go to the cinema. Checking our change, we were short by mere pennies and were mortified at the prospect of spending another two hours simply hanging about the shopping centre – something we […]

Simon Columb attends the Roman Polanski retrospective at BFI Southbank… Roman Polanski remains a fascinating filmmaker to this day. Alongside Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Polanski came to the fore in the late 1950s in Poland. The BFI in London are screening all of Polanski’s films during January and February 2013 and throughout January, essays […]