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 Tom Jolliffe with a review of 1983’s Superman III… As a kid growing up in the 80s, the Christopher Reeve Superman films were firm favourites. In my younger days […]

With all the news for Star Wars: Episode: VII falling fairly quiet as of late (apart from getting a director of course), it’s nice to see some stories about the original trilogy coming into our news desk. During An Evening with Al Pacino this last weekend in London, the actor talked about how the role […]

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, 2013. Directed by Shane Meadows. Starring Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren. SYNOPSIS: Documentary detailing the reunion of seminal Manchester rock band, The Stone Roses. At first, a documentary about The Stone Roses doesn’t seem to mesh with Shane Meadows’ recent run of autobiographical […]

Luke Owen looks at Transformers: Robots in Disguise #18 – the prelude to Dark Cybertron… SURVIVOR’S GUILT! After the shattering events of the past two issues, we can’t tell you who’s alive and who’s dead. But we will hint that one CYBERTRONIAN has to reconsider her worldview-while she comes face-to-face with some old enemies. We […]

The Iceman, 2012. Directed by Ariel Vromen.Starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, Robert Davi, James Franco, and Stephen Dorff. SYNOPSIS: Chronicling the life of Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski (Shannon), a near-emotionless contract killer for the mob. Just before he becomes a global superstar with Man of Steel, there is still […]

Villordsutch reviews the collected edition of Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes… “IDW Publishing and DC Comics are proud to present the greatest tale of the 23rd century! Or is that the 31st century? As you’ll see here, it’s both! Eisner-nominated writer Chris Roberson and Star Trek and Legionnaires veteran artist Jeffrey Moy partner up […]

John Lucking reviews the tenth episode of Hannibal…. It’s one thing to say that Will Graham is undergoing some kind of mental trauma, but how far in this direction can Hannibal really go? It’s a fragile subject and unless you’re going to do it justice one best left untouched, but this week’s macro-level focus on […]

Stephen Glass reviews Season 4 of Arrested Development…. Seven years of wishing and hoping and begging and praying on the part of innumerable hardcore Arrested Development fans came to an end last Sunday with the simultaneous release of 15 new episodes on Netflix, and early reviews all seem to agree; it’s different, it’s difficult, it’s […]

Oliver Davis reviews the ninth episode of Game of Thrones Season Three (spoilers ahoy)…. The Rains of Castamere. Directed by David Nutter. Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It’s number nine time, historically the most significant episode in each series so far. Season one had Ned’s execution. Season two staged the Battle of Blackwater […]

The Long Riders, 1980. Directed by Walter Hill.Starring David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid. SYNOPSIS: Following the Youngers, the Jameses and the Millers – all notorious outlaws back in the Old West, who raided and stole from banks across the country.  The Western film craze was said […]