Seconds out… welcome the 4th annual Superhero Showdown! LAST TIME OUT… As always, we begin with a recap of 2011, which saw Marvel Studios continuing down the road to The Avengers with Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, Fox opening up the newest chapter of their X-Men franchise with the prequel X-Men: First Class, […]
Flickering Myth’s Top 10 Movies of 2011
As the curtain falls on 2011, it’s that time again when we reflect on the past twelve months to deliver our selection of the very best films to arrive on screens over the past year. As with 2010 – which saw Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller Inception snatching victory from Pixar’s heart-warming sequel Toy Story 3 […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #35 – Zoolander (2001)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Zoolander, 2001. Directed by Ben Stiller. Starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Christine Taylor, Gavin Rossdale, Jerry Stiller, Milla Jovovich, David Duchovny, Vince Vaughn and Jon Voight. Zoolander is quite simply so bad that it is brilliant. Not […]
The Walking Dead – Who do you choose?
Sean Guard asks you to choose your side… The grand New Year is nearly upon us, (Yay, Joy, Rapture, etc.), so everyone is of course resolutioning this and promising that once the clock strokes the ball-dropping tone of midnight. For those of us in tune with our favorite shows, I’m sure there are plenty that […]
The ten most pirated movies of 2011
Earlier this week TorrentFreak revealed the ten most pirated movies of 2011 through file-sharing software BitTorrent – a list that was topped by the most recent installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five, which suffered a total of 9,260,000 illegal downloads since its release in April. The list throws up a few […]
Movie Review – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Geraldine James. SYNOPSIS: A magazine journalist and a troubled computer hacker team up to search for a woman who has been missing for forty years. Ah, […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #34 – Black Swan (2010)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Black Swan, 2010. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey. Black Swan is another dark tale from director Darren Aronofsky and again deals with obsession and self-destruction. This time out Aronofsky has […]
Working with Clint: Michael Owens talks about Clint Eastwood
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor Michael Owens about his collaborations with Clint Eastwood… “Space Cowboys [2000] was my first experience with Clint [Eastwood]. We got along great and it worked out very well,’ recalls Michael Owens who has become the visual effects supervisor of choice for the Hollywood legend. “Clint let […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #33 – Raging Bull (1980)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Raging Bull, 1980. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty. Raging Bull is one of the greatest films of all time and is an absolute classic in film history. Scorsese’s biographical masterpiece follows […]
Movie Review – Puss in Boots (2011)
Puss in Boots, 2011. Directed by Chris Miller. Featuring the voice talents of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris, Constance Marie and Guillermo del Toro. SYNOPSIS: The heroic Puss in Boots is pitted against the outlaws Jack and Jill, who have discoved an ancient power that threatens the world. As […]
