Red Stewart presents 10 underappreciated sequels to acclaimed pictures… Sequelitis is one of the biggest plagues of the film industry. On the one hand we get it: by being successful, a movie has shown its producers that it’s a successful IP with a brand name among new audiences. On the other, sometimes a story doesn’t […]
The Week in Movies – New Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War trailers, All Deadpool Everything, and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema – including the final Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer, the DC and Captain America: Civil War Superbowl teaser spots, all the Deadpool success news and much, much more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. […]
What’s with all the hate for Ghostbusters II?
Simon Columb on the hate for Ghostbusters II… Off the bat, I’ll admit it’s inferior to Ghostbusters. The combination of Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray, in a family-friendly blockbuster, with a fiendishly spooky-but-fun script is a perfect cocktail of expertise. With these elements in mind, Ghostbusters II ultimately doesn’t have the innovation calling […]