First rule of The Apprentice – never claim to be an expert in something, because you won’t be. And in the end, you will be exposed as a fraud. It seems every year we get a candidate who misses this memo and claims things like “this task was made for me”, “I’m brilliant at this […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the new season of Arrested Development… The distribution model has changed so much in the last ten years, it’s difficult to even figure out where everything went wrong.  Or in this case, right.  The Internet is strewn with posts from people begging to see their cancelled shows resuscitated on different networks or […]

Based on the fact that Bryan Singer has decided to add Quicksilver to the line-up of X-Men: Days of Future Past after Joss Whedon announced he was to use the character for The Avengers 2, it seems unlikely that we’ll be seeing any collaborations between 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios in the near future. […]

Luke Owen revisits Super Mario Bros…. Can you believe it’s been twenty years since the Super Mario Bros movie was released? I remember it so vividly being talked about in every magazine, comic and TV show that I watched. Even though I was a Sega kid through and through (Mega Drive Till I Die), I […]

Conan O’Brien has asked a thought-provoking question on YouTube (in the video below). How does Superman shave? In the trailers we’ve had for Man of Steel so far, there have been shots of bearded Superman and clean-shaven Superman. Grooming has taken place. But how? O’Brien’s not alone. The Flickering Myth writing team have been debating […]

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever, 2012. Directed by Callum Waddell. Featuring Corey Feldman, Christopher Smith, Adam Green, Tobe Hooper, Tom Holland, Eduardo Sánchez and Felissa Rose. SYNOPSIS: A celebration of slasher cinema – from the early 1960’s beginnings  to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre’s forgotten cult […]

A Hijacking (Danish: Kapringen), 2012. Written and Directed Tobias Lindholm.Starring Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling and Dar Salim. SYNOPSIS: The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen. Modern films, regardless of budget, star power, or country of origin rarely come close […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team discuss their favourite movie soundtracks; next up is Martin Deer with Drive… As much as I love Drive – and I do love Drive – I can’t think of another film that’s enjoyment level is so squarely rooted in the accompanying music. I certainly don’t want to say that Drive would […]

John Lucking reviews the ninth episode of Hannibal…. Hannibal doesn’t try to repulse its audience, it entices them with beauty – it just happens to use horror as its tool. The best example of this was in episode five (Coquilles), with its flesh angels suspended in various poses, but ‘Trou Normand’ manages to better that […]

Blow Out, 1981. Directed by Brian De Palma.Starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow. SYNOPSIS: A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. Brian De Palma has directed a number of iconic Hollywood movies. He broke the mould with […]