The Flickering Myth writing team share their thoughts on Robert Pattinson’s casting as the Dark Knight in The Batman… This past weekend it was confirmed that Warner Bros. and director Matt Reeves have selected Robert Pattinson as the man to succeed Ben Affleck and don the cape and cowl for 2021’s The Batman. And, much […]
More Than Just a Pretty Face: The Talents of Robert Pattinson
Alec Frazier on Robert Pattinson and his casting as Batman… Recently, Robert Pattinson was confirmed to be playing the next Batman by Warner Bros. Entertainment. He is a tremendously talented actor, and I wish him all the best. However, there has been much antipathy towards him taking the role. Some of the opposition has been […]
Robert Pattinson confirmed as the next Batman by Matt Reeves
Last week it was announced Warner Bros. and director Matt Reeves had settled on two choices for the next Batman: actors Robert Pattinson (High Life) and Nicholas Hoult (Tolkien), and now it seems that the studio has officially selected Pattinson to don the cape and cowl for 2021’s The Batman. The move comes after WB […]
A Big Year for Three Modern Horror Masters
Tom Jolliffe takes a look ahead to The Nightingale, Midsommar and The Lighthouse… There’s been some great horror films in the last five years. Three in particular for me really harked back to a classic era sensibility, owing a lot to the best era in creepy atmospheric horror. These would evoke films (among others…) like […]
The Flickering Myth Podcast #102 – Robert Battinson, Game of Thrones, Brightburn, John Wick 3 and more
In this week’s episode of The Flickering Myth Podcats, Allen, Tori, and EJ discuss Game of Thrones, Paramount’s questionable acquisition of Atlas Comics, the trailer for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Jonathan Hickman’s hostile takeover of the X-Men line of comics, Brightburn, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and the potential casting of Robert Pattinson for […]
Christopher Nolan’s new movie titled Tenet, cast fills out as production begins
Back in January, Warner Bros. announced that Christopher Nolan is getting back behind the camera for a new film set to arrive in 2020, although as you’d expect from a Nolan project, details were being kept tightly under wraps. Well, filming has now commenced on the movie, and while things are still being kept tightly […]
First reactions to The Witch director’s “sadistic” and “terrifying” new film The Lighthouse
Robert Pattinson’s performance has been praised in first reactions to The Witch director’s “terrifying” new film The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers, the director of the horror film The Witch, has received some glowing reactions from critics at Cannes to his new film The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. The film tells the tale of […]
Robert Pattinson top choice for new Batman for Matt Reeves, Nicholas Hoult in the mix
It looks like we may finally know who will next don the cape and cowl in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. After months (perhaps years given the back-and-forth rumours of Ben Affleck’s continued involvement) of speculation, Variety is reporting that Robert Pattinson looks set to be cast as the new Batman for Warner Bros. The outlet […]
Movie Review – High Life (2018)
High Life, 2018. Directed by Claire Denis. Starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Agata Buzek, Lars Eidinger, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo, Scarlett Lindsey, and Jessie Ross. SYNOPSIS: A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation. High Life adopts the nonlinear storytelling format in […]
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and the Art of Career Transformation
Tom Jolliffe on films stars who re-invent themselves after career decline… Hollywood is unforgiving. You find a degree of success and get to the top. Maybe a string of flops send you crashing back to anonymity. You may still work solidly. Mickey Rourke for example, perceived to have disappeared around the beginning of the 90’s […]