Flickering Myth

Film & TV News, Reviews and Features

Wednesday showrunners dive into fan theories and Season 2 plans

by

The power of Wednesday is still being felt. Tim Burton’s take on The Addams Family became an instant hit, gaining 1.2 billion hours of view time in its first 28 days. This type of success is wild, and the creators of the Jenna Ortega-led series are planning big things for the road ahead.Showrunners Al Gough and […]

Korean sci-fi action thriller JUNG_E gets a trailer from Netflix

by

Netflix has released a trailer for the Korean sci-fi action thriller JUNG_E, ahead of its arrival on the streamer this January.Written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the film follows an AI researcher Yun Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-youn), as she leads the effort to clone her mother, a legendary mercenary, in an effort to end the decades […]

Rian Johnson is “p*ssed off” about including Knives Out in Glass Onion title

by

Rian Johnson is never one to hold anything back, especially when it comes to his own movies, and in one of his latest hot takes, Johnson sat down for an interview with The Atlantic to look at his new movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.The film’s very long title came up, and Johnson offered […]

Movie Review – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

by

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022.Written and Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Madelyn Cline, Leslie Odom Jr., and Jessica Henwick.SYNOPSIS:Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.Writer/director Rian Johnson has whipped up another eclectic ensemble for the southern-fried […]

Red, Kitty and a bunch of familiar faces are back in That ’90s Show trailer

by

Netflix has released a new trailer  for That ’90s Show, the spinoff to the teen sitcom That ’70s Show which sees the return of Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp as Red and Kitty Forman, and centres on their granddaughter as she comes to spend the summer with them in Wisconsin, where quickly bonds with […]

New images from Luther: The Fallen Sun starring Idris Elba

by

Netflix has shared three new images from the Luther feature film, offering another look at Idris Elba’s disgraced detective John Luther, along the official title reveal for the crime thriller: Luther: The Fallen Sun; take a look here…In Luther: The Fallen Sun — an epic continuation of the award-winning television saga reimagined for film — […]

The Witcher showrunner teases Henry Cavill’s “heroic sendoff” for third season

by

The past couple of months have been fairly tumultuous for The Witcher star Henry Cavill as he announced his return as Superman in the DCEU and that he would also be leaving his lead role as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher just to lose Superman again in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s restructuring of DC films.Now Witcher showrunner […]

Netflix announces new live-action City Hunter movie

by

Netflix has given the green light to a live action movie adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s 80s manga City Hunter, which will be produced as part of the streamer’s slate of original Japanese content.Yuichi Sato (The End of the Tiny World) will direct the film, with Ryohei Suzuki (Tokyo MER) starring in the lead role as […]

Watcher’s Chloe Okuno set to helm Fear Street 4 for Netflix

by

After helming one of 2022’s best horror films, Chloe Okuno could join Netflix for their cult horror hits.Okuno, the filmmaker behind Watcher, is reportedly directing Fear Street 4 – the fourth installment in the film franchise that took over Netflix in 2021.Leigh Janiak directed and co-wrote the first three films, 1994, 1978, and 1666, based […]