Originality be damned in Hollywood, it’s time to look at some action sequels the world needs… Recently it was announced that Sly Stallone would be donning his climbing gear and hitting the mountains for a Cliffhanger sequel. That sent the Flickering Myth office into a frenzy of ideas… actually, it was just me in a […]
Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?
With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]
Twins 2 is dead, but Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger “have a little project going”
Danny DeVito knows the world wants more of him, and he’s open to revisiting some of his past works, but it seems like his partners aren’t. In a recent interview, DeVito spoke about wanting to do a follow-up to Twins and Throw Momma From the Train but couldn’t get the respective co-stars to get on […]
The Rise and Spectacular Fall of the Terminator Franchise
Luke Owen looks back at the Terminator franchise… 30 years ago, the brilliant mind and visionary genius of James Cameron gave birth to a cinema icon – Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, the T-800, The Terminator. It was a movie that blended science fiction, action and horror and helped launched the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The […]
New details on Terminator fights in Terminator: Genisys
After the first trailer debuted to a decidedly mixed reaction over the Christmas period, some more details on this summer’s Terminator: Genisys have emerged this week – namely on the anticipated fight sequence at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles between Arnold Schwarzenegger’s older Terminator incarnation and his 1984 version, which will be part CGI-assisted […]
Movie Review – Terminator Genisys (2015)
Terminator Genisys, 2015 Directed by Alan Taylor Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Matt Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Byung-hun Lee SYNOPSIS: John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to protect Sarah Connor, but when he arrives in 1984, nothing is as he expected it to be. Terminator Genisys […]
Second Opinion – Terminator Genisys (2015)
Terminator Genisys, 2015. Directed by Alan Taylor. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Matt Smith, J.K. Simmons, Courtney B. Vance, Byung-hun Lee, Dayo Okeniyi, Michael Gladis, Sandrine Holt and Douglas Smith. SYNOPSIS: In the new installment of The Terminator series, John Connor, leader of the human resistance against Skynet, sends Kyle Reese back […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger says Terminator Genisys didn’t need James Cameron’s endorsement
Terminator Genisys was released this past week (read our reviews here and here) and despite some over-the-top marketing campaigns including endless TV spots, various featurettes and a bunch of spoilery trailers, it hasn’t been doing fantastic box-office numbers. Early reviews weren’t good and they don’t seem to have gotten any better as the days pass. […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Last Action Hero flop: “I cannot tell you how upset I was”
Even with his box office power at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t save every project he starred in during the 80s and 90s. One example comes in the form of John McTiernan’s Last Action Hero, released in 1993. While Last Action Hero is a cult classic, it opened to $15.3 million and only made $137 […]
Ranking Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Post-Governator Starring Roles
10 years since Arnold made his full return to acting after a stint as Governor of California, we rank his major projects from worst to best… In the 80s and 90s at the height of video store popularity, I was but a youth watching films that I wasn’t supposed to be watching. I lapped up […]
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