Flickering Myth’s writing team vote for their favourite James Bond films before Skyfall, the 23rd entry in the franchise, hits cinemas…If an alien race observed our cinematic habits over the past 50 years they may well pick out one particular universal constant, one glamorously unchanging law. No matter what happens in the world or how […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; first up is The Blob (1958)… The first of our 60 years of horror reviews begins with movie legend Steve McQueen’s feature debut – the 1958 cult classic The Blob. Made independently and for very cheap, The Blob is a […]

Back in May, James Cameron was quoted as stating that his filmmaking future lay solely on the alien world of Pandora, with the back-to-back sequels Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 potentially followed by a fourth instalment, but now it seems the Academy Award-winner is lining up another future project… and no, sadly it’s not the long-rumoured […]

While at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Trevor Hogg was able to take part in a group chat with Brian De Palma who spoke about working within the Hollywood studio system, the video game industry, screenwriting, collaborating with music composers, the remake of Carrie and filmmaking during the 1970s…“The studios offer you movies occasionally, […]

Road to Hell, 2008. Directed by Albert Pyun.Starring Michael Michael Paré, Clare Kramer, Courtney Peldon, Roxy Gunn, Chris Reject, Ryan Hamman, Jon Mills and Paige Billiot. SYNOPSIS: Albert Pyun’s ode to Walter Hill’s Streets on Fire explores its hero’s dark journey through hell as he seeks the only thing that still matters to him: his […]

Luke Owen discusses the first trailer for Marvel’s Iron Man 3… The first stage of “Phase Two” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is underway with the release of the trailer for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 [watch it here]. Promising (figuratively) to ‘take Stark back to the cave’, the trailer certainly shows a much bleaker Iron […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Oliver Davis with GoldenEye…Oliver Davis hates to write in the first person, but for ‘favourite’ pieces, it’s kinda unavoidable.I was introduced to James Bond through Wednesday nights on ITV. They had a 20-something week […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest prog of 2000 AD…After watching the new film Dredd 3D last month (I thought it was great, but check out Luke Owen and Rohan Morbey’s reviews here and here) I decided to get back into the original comic book 2000AD, starting with Prog 1801.I was a regular reader back in […]

The Devil Rides Out, 1968. Directed by Terence Fisher.Starring Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower and Nike Arrighi. SYNOPSIS: After rescuing his deceased friend’s son from a bloody Satanic ritual, the debonair Duc de Richleau  is pursued by a cult who will stop at nothing to destroy the Duc and his friends, even […]

Robert Downey Jr.’s Armored Avenger may be grabbing all the headlines at the moment as we await the arrival of the first trailer for the upcoming superhero sequel Iron Man 3, but it seems that Marvel Studios is already looking to get to work on ‘Phase Three’ of the Cinematic Universe, with a casting call […]