As we all know, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel appears to hold the key to a shared DC movie universe, with Warner Bros. seemingly holding off on making any firm decisions about its future DC plans until the studio’s accountants have tallied the box office returns for June’s hotly-anticipated Superman reboot. However, it’s also common […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #3…. X2, 2003. Directed by Bryan Singer.Starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, […]

Oliver Davis reviews the fourth episode of Game of Thrones Season Three… Exclusive still from the road movie: Pycelle and Tywin do Braavos And Now His Watch Is Ended. Directed by Alex Graves. Written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. “And now his watch has ended.” It’s the name of the episode, and also […]

Good news for Daredevil fans – the character is back in the hands of Marvel studios. At the press conference for Iron Man 3, Kevin Feige was asked if the rights had reverted from Fox back to Marvel, to which his reply was simply “yes”. Nothing further was talked about, however Devin Farachi of BadAss […]

Continuing our Comic Book Movie Month here at Flickering Myth, Scott Davis revisits The Dark Knight Rises… A year or so on from its release last summer, a lot has been written by fans and critics alike about Christopher Nolan’s trilogy closer, The Dark Knight Rises. It seems strange to look back at such a […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective… Described by David Cronenberg as a “poetic horror film”, Terry Gilliam prefers to think of Tideland as Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho. The choice of words of both directors indicates that Tideland will sit as one of Gilliam’s more divisive films, offering the viewer an authentic Gilliamesque trip […]

Matt Smith reviews episode thirteen of The Following… So, I’m not sure how you feel, but reading a review this late, just before another episode is shown (you may have already seen the next one depending on where you live) feels unusual. A late review is almost a definition of ‘behind the times’. But when […]

The Sound of Old Rooms, 2011. Directed by Sandeep Ray. SYNOPSIS: Filmed over 17 years, this up-close documentary takes the viewer through the life experiences of an ordinary Indian man trying to hold on to his calling of being a poet while juggling a normal life.  The most interesting thing about documentary The Sound of […]

I Have Always Been a Dreamer, 2012. Directed by Sabine Gruffat. SYNOPSIS: A documentary travelogue and film portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, U.S.A. I Have Always Been a Dreamer begins with a single long take scanning the inner city area of Detroit. The camera gazes up at […]

Some may think it’s too little too late, but Michael Bay in a recent profile with The Miami Herald, the Transformers director has apologised for his 1998 blockbuster Armageddon. “I will apologize for Armageddon, because we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks,” Bay told the newspaper while promoting his upcoming Pain & […]