To celebrate the release of Star Trek Into Darkness, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at the classic sci-fi franchise. Next up for Star Trek Month is Martin Deer looking back at J.J Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot… When tasked with this assignment by the Flickering Myth overlords, I was asked to throw in […]

Many people found it disheartening that last year’s Dredd, starring Karl Urban, didn’t do the business that would guarantee it a sequel. With a modest (for this genre) budget of $45 million, the comic book film grossed only $36 million. Sad times indeed.It did however receive generally positive reviews and fans of the comic (plus […]

If you haven’t seen Iron Man 3 yet – and you’ve somehow managed to avoid any spoilers from the film – then you’ll probably want to stop reading now……Now, for everyone else, it’s pretty fair to say that if there was one twist in Iron Man 3 that we neverrrrr saw coming it was the […]

Last month was the excellent Hitman: Absolution, and this month’s line-up has simply blown my mind. Check out what is available to PlayStation Plus users for June… 29th May: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning29th May: ICO and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection29th May: Demon’s Souls5th June: Rayman Origins5th June: Coconut Dodge Revitalised Demon’s Souls and […]

Damon Lindelof (Prometheus, Star Trek Into Darkness) has offered some advice to Warner Bros. about their planned Justice League movie, which will tie together their superhero properties of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc – just like Marvel did with The Avengers / Avengers Assemble.In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lindelof was asked whether he […]

Luke Owen reviews the third episode of The Apprentice….If anything, this week’s episode of The Apprentice should have showcased who was going to do well in this process and who would fail miserably. After all, this was a designing task where they had to create and market a new product – something that Lord Sugar […]

Over the past week or so there’s been plenty of talk that the major players in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have expressed some discontent over their contracts with Marvel Studios, stemming from the disparity between their pay packets and that of Robert Downey Jr., who’s set to pocket over $100 million from The Avengers and […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 22 of Elementary…What made you come here? Yes, you. Don’t answer back, I’m the one doing the writing around here (comments welcome). Why are you reading this review? Would you come here every week, even if you knew the next review was going to be of a YouTube video featuring a […]

Anthony Stokes thinks that Hollywood’s current business model could be unsustainable… Hollywood seems to be getting greedier and greedier with each year. There appears to be an endless amount of 3D animated movies, 3D re-releases, unnecessary remakes, and feature length commercials (feature length commercials are movies that are lacking in story or character development, but […]

Luke Owen reviews the trade paper back release of Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots… The DINOBOTS hold the line as CYBERTRON falls! With OPTIMUS PRIME and the Ark long gone, the rest of the population makes their escape from the dying world–but SHOCKWAVE remains behind, continuing his experiments!If you read my reviews of the […]