Flickering Myth

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

Marvel’s movie model works, DC’s doesn’t – and Suicide Squad proves it

by

Tony Black shares his thoughts on the state of the DC Extended Universe… So we can all agree on one thing here, right? Suicide Squad is a disaster. Yay or nay? If you’re reading this, there’s every chance like me you thought it was almost as loud, boring and ponderous as Batman v Superman: Dawn […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #17 – Starquake

by

Carefully removing Underwurlde from the cassette player, placing it into its case and then popping said game into a box marked, “Never to be played again” – currently occupied by Football Manager, Hypersports and International Match Day – we load up the next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and we’re instantly met with another ruddy platformer!  However […]

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction

by

The Flickering Myth team react… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Doctor Strange, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Assassin’s Creed, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Kong: Skull Island and more Paul W.S. Anderson is bringing his Resident Evil saga to an end after six movies with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, set for […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #18 – Underwurlde

by

As Eric completes is task of mischief, depositing his report back in the safe and leaving half the school drunk as skunks, we eject Back to Skool and head towards our next helping in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  At No.#18 is another release from the software house Ultimate Play the Game – on first glance […]

Exclusive interview with All-Star Batman’s Scott Snyder & John Romita Jr.

by

Ricky Church chats with Scott Snyder & John Romita Jr about All-Star Batman… One of the most anticipated titles among DC Rebirth is All-Star Batman, written by Scott Snyder with art by John Romita Jr. The opening arc, ‘My Own Worst Enemy’, will see Batman and Two-Face going on a ‘road trip’ as Batman attempts […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #19 – Back to Skool

by

No longer being involved in the macabre, trap dodging, kill or be killed Spy vs Spy we rapidly leave the area in our plane and look towards our next game, hoping that life in our next Your Sinclair Top 100 entry will not be so brutal. However looking at No.#19 it appears we’re not escaping […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #20 – Spy vs Spy

by

After crawling around numerous air vents looking for Jones the cat in Alien, we finally make our escape in the Narcissus, and turning to our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 we discover that Number #21 is another tie-in, but this is from the MAD Magazine. Loading onto our CRT screens is two […]

Why Are Film Sets Increasingly Troubled Places?

by

This week, Neil Calloway looks at why franchise movies seem to spawn arguments between film-makers and studios… Rumours of a troubled production – and two differing cuts – of Suicide Squad add to a growing list of films that appear to have led to arguments and disagreements between the creative teams behind them and the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #21 – Alien

by

Pulling over for a while and taking a tea break, as tiredness kills, we park up Chase H.Q. and turn to our next offering in the Your Sinclair Top 100 this next game – at No.#21 – is a classic sci-fi/horror movie tie-in.  We now have in our cassette players the Ellen Ripley-bothering Alien – from Mind […]