Anthony Stokes assesses the career of Judd Apatow…. Comedy seems to be like a mechanical bull, with many people holding on for dear life and not quite realizing they’ve fallen off (I’m looking at you Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and especially Eddie Murphy). Few people have had more success producing, writing, and directing comedies than Judd […]

A couple of months back it was rumoured that Christopher Nolan was set to produce a potential Justice League / World’s Finest movie, which would have seen Christian Bale donning the cape and cowl once more to team up with Henry Cavill, star of the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. While the initial report turned out to […]

Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s Lars von Trier retrospective… Cubism, as an art movement, can be simplified as a style that depicts an object or person through distorting perspective and space. Cubism argued that, as an artist, if you look at an object, though you might depict what is observed, why not include what is […]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Universal Pictures are planning a reboot of Timecop, the 1994 sci-fi actioner directed by Peter Hyams (Sudden Death, End of Days), which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as a U.S. federal agent in a then-future 2004 who fights time-travel crime as part of the Time Enforcement Commission. Timecop was originally […]

A new, more party-orientated trailer has been released for Disney Pixar’s upcoming Monsters Inc. prequel Monsters University. The film will reveal how Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman) first became friends. Here’s the official plot synopsis, followed by the new trailer: “Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski was a little monster, […]

Grave of the Fireflies, (Japanese: Hotaru no haka) 1988. Directed by Isao Takahata. Featuring the voice talents of J. Robert Spencer, Rhoda Chrosite, Amy Jones and Veronica Taylor. SYNOPSIS: A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister’s struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. Celebrating its 25th anniversary and UK […]

All Is Lost, 2013. Directed by J.C. Chandor.Starring Robert Redford. SYNOPSIS: A man is drifting 1700 nautical miles from the Sumatra Straits. How did he get there and will he ever reach dry land again? J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost is an original and totally absorbing tale of one man pitted against the elements. It […]

The Flickering Myth writing team sit down to talk about the fourth trailer for Man of Steel…. After releasing what felt like a million posters (albeit awesome ones), Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures gave us a fourth trailer for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel this week – this time featuring more of Michael Shannon’s General […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews The Superior Spider-Man #10…. “It Begins Here!! A perfect jumping on point as The Green Goblin returns and Spider-Man is nowhere to be found!“ My love for Marvel’s Superior Spider-Man has been well articulated.  It is by far the most interesting and fascinating of the Marvel NOW! titles.  The only issue I […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 23 of Elementary… It’s the penultimate episode of Elementary and things are getting serious, because it’s the penultimate episode and that’s what happens in penultimate episodes. That’s what’s always said, right? In the ads and promotions, it always says ‘penultimate episode’ followed by the main character looking sombre or contemplative? That’s […]