Flickering Myth

Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games

Marvel and IDW team up to produce new comics for younger readers

by

IDW Publishing amd Marvel Entertainment have announced that the two companies are teaming up to develop middle-grade comic books designed for younger readers and featuring some of Marvel’s most popular characters including Spider-Man, The Avengers and Black Panther. Launching in November 2018, the Marvel and IDW collaboration will kick off with a Spider-Man series featuring […]

Punisher: War Zone coming to 4K Ultra HD

by

Lionsgate has announced that director Lexi Alexander’s cult favourite comic book movie Punisher: War Zone is coming to 4K Ultra HD this September! Continuing his crusade to punish violent criminals in America, former FBI agent Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson) arrives in New York to take on the scarred villain Jigsaw (Dominic West) who plots to […]

LEGO brings a life-size Thanos to Comic-Con

by

Having vanquished Earth’s Mightiest Heroes earlier this year in Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos has now set his sights on the San Diego Comic-Con International, with The LEGO Group announcing that they are bringing a life-size build of the Mad Titan to the convention floor. The 450-pound model is about 8-and-a-half feet tall, contains 91,350 bricks, […]

The Good Doctor’s Chuku Modu has a role in Captain Marvel

by

Captain Marvel may have wrapped filming earlier this month, but it seems we can add another name to the cast of Marvel Studios’ next superhero blockbuster. According to IMDb, actor Chuku Modo will appear in the film in an as-yet-unrevealed role. Modo appeared in the first season of ABC’s The Good Doctor, where he played […]

Ant-Man and the Wasp director teases deleted scenes

by

While we’ve still got a couple of weeks to wait for the UK release of Ant-Man and the Wasp, the latest chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened in the States last weekend, and director Peyton Reed is already teasing what we can expect in terms of deleted scenes when the home-entertainment release comes around. […]

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Lotus Eaters’

by

Red Stewart reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger… There’s something about psychoanalytical episodes in superhero television shows that fascinate me. From Smallville’s “Labyrinth,” to Arrow’s “Kapiushon,” to The Flash’s “Into the Speed Force,” I have frequently found myself engaged in each respective plot. Perhaps it is because I grew up enjoying Freudian theories, or maybe it’s because […]

Ant-Man and the Wasp’s Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne get the Funko Pop! Vinyl treatment

by

Funko has revealed a new wave of Ant-Man and the Wasp Pop! Movies vinyl figures featuring Michael Douglas’ Hank Pym and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Janet Van Dyne – a.k.a. the original Ant-Man and The Wasp – in both masked and unmasked costumed versions; take a look at the promotional images here… From the Marvel Cinematic Universe […]

The Venom movie will NOT have any ties to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

by

While Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has stated on a number of occasions that Sony’s Venom movie will be separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, producer Amy Pascal has said that the studio’s spinoff movies take place “in the same reality” as the rebooted Spider-Man, while there’s been persistent rumours that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man (or Peter Parker, […]

Stan Lee pays tribute to Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko

by

Last week it was announced that legendary artist Steve Ditko had passed away aged 90, and now fellow comic book icon Stan Lee has shared a video paying tribute to his colleague, with whom he created a number of characters including, most notably, the Amazing Spider-Man. “I cannot let the week go without commenting on […]

Laurence Fishburne doesn’t expect to get Man of Steel 2 call after turning down Justice League

by

Having portrayed Daily Planet editor in chief Perry White in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, actor Laurence Fishburne thinks his time in the DC Extended Universe may be over – and not because he’s made the jump to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but rather because he had to pass on […]