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, David Bishop with 1985’s Commando… The 80s were a defining decade for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator, Predator and Conan all helped to launch his career and make him one […]
Peter Farrelly on Dumb & Dumber To and Three Stooges sequel
The Farrelly brothers hit the Hollywood scene back in 1994 with a little comedy called Dumb & Dumber. Many people reportedly turned it down not knowing that it would become a massive hit, but Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did not and now, 19 years later, it looks like the four of them could be […]
Thoughts on… Gangster Squad (2013)
Gangster Squad, 2013. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte and Josh Pence. SYNOPSIS: A 1940s crime tale about the rise and fall of gangster Mickey Cohen. Let me start by saying that I enjoyed Gangster Squad, but it […]
Zack Snyder developing a Star Wars movie for Disney?
We’ve been anxiously awaiting the appointment of a director on Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII for a couple of months now, but while we wait to see who’ll be handed the reins of the next Star Wars trilogy, Vulture are reporting that Disney has turned to Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) to direct a standalone Star […]
My Favourite Tarantino Movie – Pulp Fiction (1994)
Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Django Unchained by selecting their favourite Quentin Tarantino movies; next up is Martin Deer with 1994’s Pulp Fiction… pulp /’palp / n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matterand being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished […]
Director Pete Travis talks possible Dredd sequels, unlikely to return
During the Dredd 3D panel at the London Film and Comic Con last July, screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later) spoke about the possibility of developing a trilogy around 2000 AD’s iconic lawman of the future, stating that the Karl Urban-headlined reboot would need to gross over $50 million in the U.S. for him to […]
DVD Review – Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), 1968. Directed by Ferinando Baldi. Starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Jose Torres and Pinuccio Ardia. SYNOPSIS: After the cold-blooded execution of his wife, a lone gun-slinger, Django (Hill), becomes a vigilant for a town at the mercy of his wife’s murderer. With increasing publicity for […]
Comic Book Review – Godzilla #8
Luke Owen reviews the latest issue of Godzilla… “Boxer is cornered by the government and Godzilla is a giant sized X-factor, wrecking everyone’s plans. Sides are switched, lives are lost… and then the unthinkable happens. The devastating third act of this Godzilla epic begins now!” I’ve been incredibly harsh on this series for some time […]
DVD Review – Nowhere to Go (1958)
Nowhere to Go, 1958. Directed by Seth Holt.Starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries. SYNOPSIS: After breaking out of prison, a thief and conman attempts to flee the country only to end up on the run in the Welsh countryside. Don’t expect to sympathise with a man like Paul […]
DVD Review – 360 (2011)
360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: An international look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships, that ultimately intersect and interact. . 360 is a drama of ambitious scope, that skips through themes […]
