Following this week’s home entertainment release of The Long Riders and Sweet Vengeance, Paul Risker looks at the evolution of the Western…One of the intriguing characteristics of the Western is the story of its evolution. From morality tales of heroes in white hats and villains dressed in black, to Sergio Leone’s distortion and subversion of […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics #11
Chris Cooper reviews the latest of IDW’s TMNT ‘Color Classics’ reprints… “Devastated by a traumatic fight with the Foot and the Shredder, the TMNT retreat to Northampton. This issue serves as a poetic coda to the original, astounding run of Eastman & Laird on TMNT.” Damn Splinter is short! OK now I’ve got that out […]
Movie Review – This Is the End (2013)
This Is the End, 2013. Directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.Starring James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Michael Cera, and Emma Watson. SYNOPSIS: While attending a party at James Franco’s house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse. “And Jonah Hill?! You’re […]
Friday the 13th and South Park head back to Paramount for a deal on Nolan’s Interstellar
With Christopher Nolan making a lot of money with his Dark Knight trilogy for Warner Bros., it would make sense for them to keep some sort of working relationship with the director, especially on his new sci-fi movie Interstellar. It was announced in January that both Warner Bros. and Paramount would be distributing the movie, […]
Comic Book Review – Spawn #232
Oliver Davis reviews Spawn #232… 32 STRAIGHT ISSUES WITH SAME ART TEAM, declares the book’s front cover. It reads like the “3 days without an accident” board in The Simpsons. They are Spawn’s creator/writer Todd MacFarlane and Szymon Kudranski on pencils and inking. Hooray for consistency. Having never read Spawn, and starting at part four […]
Superman Month – Supergirl (1984)
To celebrate the release of Man of Steel this month, the Flickering Myth writing team are looking back over Superman’s previous screen adventures; next up is Victoria Welton with a review of 1984’s Superman spin-off – Supergirl… Opting to review Supergirl to celebrate the Superman Month for Flickering Myth, I hoped watching it this time […]
Comic Book Review – The Colonized #3
Andy Naylor reviews The Colonized #3… “The zombie horde is growing, the aliens and humans are outmanned (and out-alienned), and the citizens of Carbon Falls are beset from all sides. Which all pale before the looming explosive threat brought on from one of their own!“ The Colonzied follows the self-governed town of Carbon Falls and […]
Harry Potter producer bringing DC Comics’ Fables to the big screen
Bill Willingham’s multi-Eisner Award-winning DC / Vertigo comic book series Fables is heading to the big screen courtesy of Harry Potter producer David Heyman and his production company Heyday Films, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Fables centres on a selection of fairy tale characters who are exiled from their homeland, forcing them to live in […]
Comic Book Review – East of West #3
Oliver Davis reviews East of West #3… “Death’s reign of terror over THOSE WHO RULE continues, as the forces of the END TIMES continue to work to bring about the Apocalypse. It’s the END OF THE WORLD: Someone dies, someone lives, and someone falls in love.” WHO IS THIS WOMAN, THE ONE THAT CONQUERED DEATH? […]
Hugh Jackman hanging up his claws?
Say it isn’t so! After nabbing the role from Dougray Scott (picking Mission: Impossible II must have seemed the right idea at the time), and so far starring as Wolverine six times. could Hugh Jackman be thinking about life without chicken breast and Adamantium? “I wasn’t even sure after the first [stand-alone] film if I would […]
