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Michael Keaton’s Batman Returns for Flashpoint | Flickering Myth TV

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EJ and Allen on the shocking return of Michael Keaton as Batman… The news that Michael Keaton might return to the role of Batman sent shockwaves through the Internet. Keaton will reportedly return as the role he originated in Batman 1989 and Batman Returns for the Warner Bros. and DC Films’ The Flash movie starring […]

Extreme Cinema – Nekromantik

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Nekromantik, 1987. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt and Colloseo Schulzendorf. SYNOPSIS: The relationship between a pair of necrophiles hits the rocks when the female prefers sexual relations with a rotting corpse than that of her living partner. If you were to make a list of all of the […]

Six Things You Might Not Know About Tim Burton’s Batman

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Today marks the 31st anniversary of Tim Burton’s Batman (or Batman ’89 as it’s known nowadays). It was a movie that changed the landscape of comic book movies, broke the mould that came before it and wrote the blueprint for how to market a summer blockbuster. To celebrate this occasion (and the news that Michael […]

A Tale of Dungeons & Dragons

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Calum Petrie with a tale of Dungeons & Dragons… In this day and age, we are filled with so many different types of entertainment (this site alone covers a massive amount of pop/geek culture) that we have allowed our imaginations to dwindle and let comics, film, TV and video games to fill in the gaps […]

The Wonder Woman They Didn’t Want Us To See

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Neil Calloway looks at the 2011 Wonder Woman pilot… 2017’s Wonder Woman marked the return of the Amazon Princess to the big screen, the first time the character had appeared in her own live action project since the Lynda Carter fronted TV show ended in 1979. It wasn’t meant to be that way, though. Like […]

Netflix vs Disney+ vs HBO Max: The State of the Streaming War | Flickering Myth TV

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With Disney+ and HBO Max entering the arena in recent months and NBCUniversal’s Peacock about to launch its own challenge to the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime, it seems safe to assume that the battle to become the best streaming service will not be ending any time soon. In this episode of Flickering Myth […]

The DC TV Shows We’d Like to See | Flickering Myth TV

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We’re in somewhat of a Golden Age for DC TV at present, with the likes of The CW, DC Universe and soon HBO Max serving up a host of shows over the past few years including the likes of Arrow, Gotham, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, Titans, Doom Patrol, Pennyworth, Batwoman, […]

Four Director’s Cuts We’d Like To See

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Following on from the news that Zack Snyder’s Justice League is coming to HBO Max in 2021, Anghus Houvouras picks four director’s cuts he’d like to see… The idea of a Director’s Cut or ‘Extended Cut’ isn’t necessarily new. There was a time when letting the director back into the editing booth to take another […]

The Dark Universe That Never Was: A Short History of Universal’s Failed Monster Franchise

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EJ Moreno on the short history of Universal’s Dark Universe… Join our host EJ Moreno as he ventures back to 2017 to figure out what happened to the Dark Universe. Universal Pictures had a short-lived plan to create a cinematic universe, a la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it didn’t last more than a year. […]