Anghus Houvouras with a suggestion for fixing Gotham… Gotham has been the craziest kind of failed experiment. A show that was off the rails almost from the beginning. The show has been raked across the coals in its first season for being ‘Batman without Batman’, citing the show’s penchant for cramming in every Batman villain […]
The Flash Season 1 Episode 21 Review – ‘Grodd Lives’
Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash… The great thing about The Flash series (besides his rich and deep history as a character) is his vast Rogues Gallery. One of the most colorful, and frightening and iconic of those villains is Gorilla Grodd (now just Grodd on the show) Comics-wise, he’s a powerful […]
Sony renews Powers for a second season
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony’s Powers adaptation – which aired exclusively on the PlayStation Network – has been renewed for a second season. Sony’s VP of Platforms Marketing, John Koller, had this to say about the renewal: “The reception of Powers has been incredible, and we are thrilled to have successfully launched a platform for original content with […]
Tim Kring’s Imperative Entertainment adapting Black Mask Studios’ Mayday
Imperative Entertainment – which is run by Tim Kring, creator of Heroes – has teamed up with Black Mask Studios to adapt the comic book series Mayday as a scripted television series. MAYDAY lives in the underbelly of the Hollywood scene, where a washed-up, drug-addicted screenwriter and a transgender bartender stumble onto a Satanic cult’s […]
The Simpsons renewed for two more years by FOX
A few years ago, it seemed that the legendary animation The Simpsons was finally coming to a natural end. Fast forward those few years, and it continues to outstrip many other long-running shows, and has today been renewed by FOX for another two seasons. The show will now run into its 27th and 28th seasons, […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 21 Review – ‘The Anvil or the Hammer’
Martin Carr reviews the twenty-first episode of Gotham… I find myself between a rock and a hard place. With metaphorical marching bands and the news of another royal mouth to feed, we find ourselves at an end. Not in the biblical sense but more in a literal manner. Gotham has finished. If you could stop […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 20 Review – ‘Under the Knife’
Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Gotham… Unbalanced personalities, damaged psychosis and narrative conventions all jostle for position, in this penultimate portion of Gotham on Fox. Erin Richards, all but forgotten in the ebb and flow of events, comes to the fore opposite Ogre extraordinaire Milo Ventimigilia. Elsewhere Lord Taylor continues his plotting while […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 19 Review – ‘Beasts of Prey’
Martin Carr reviews the nineteenth episode of Gotham… For anyone up on their entertainment news it comes as little surprise that Jada Pinkett Smith is leaving Gotham. With a heavy heart we bid farewell to someone who has remained dignified amongst a shit storm of criticism. In an online media frenzy akin to the release […]
Interview: Danny Boushebel on his upcoming role in Elementary
In an exclusive interview with Flickering Myth, Lebanese actor Danny Boushebel, who is about to make his debut on hit CBS show Elementary alongside Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu this month. Boushebel, who has also appeared in House of Cards, The Blacklist and Homeland, is also about to make his debut at the Cannes […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 18 Review – ‘Everyone has a Cobblepot’
Martin Carr reviews the eighteenth episode of Gotham… This was to be my grand gesture. A return to form and way back from literary oblivion. Gotham was the weapon of choice, episode eighteen and nineteen the literary armour I chose to swathe myself in. Prepared for battle and cloaked in metaphorical attire I would advance […]
