Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Man of Steel, The Wolverine, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Kick-Ass 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, S.H.I.E.L.D., Doctor Strange, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Elektra, Justice League, Superman Lives, Superman: Flyby, Arrow, Amazon, Ultimate […]

Mark Millar is certainly a busy man these days, what with his various comic book duties – several of which are currently in development as movie adaptations, including this year’s Kick-Ass 2 – along with his position as creative consultant on 20th Century Fox’s various Marvel properties; however, he’s still found the time to take […]

The Flickering Myth team share their thoughts about the news that J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII… It’s been just under a week since the news officially broke that Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams was to take on one of sci-fi’s most iconic franchises. This news, which could very well be […]

In his latest ‘State of the Genre’ column, Martin Deer on the reaction to David S. Goyer’s recent comments on Man of Steel… This week David S. Goyer has been speaking to Empire about Man of Steel as we get closer to it’s release on June 14th. For some reason his latest comments, despite being […]

Warm Bodies, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Cory Hardrict and Analeigh Tipton. SYNOPSIS: A zombie saves a girl from an attack and the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that could transform the entire lifeless world. Every year […]

Now officially in pre-production, X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer will be posting daily photos to his Twitter account to whet our appetites, but a casting call received by ComicBookMovie may have revealed something more newsworthy than a production photo of a possible set. The casting call is looking for extras between “16-75” […]

Anghus Houvouras with a follow-up to The Five Most Disappointing Films of All Time… About or year or so ago I put together a little op-ed piece, right around the time I first started writing for Flickering Myth. It was a piece I’d been mulling for a few years: The Five Most Disappointing Films of […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the second issue of The Superior Spider-Man… This is a really weird comic.  That is both a ringing endorsement and a declaration of the surreal nature of reading Marvel’s relaunched Superior Spider-Man.  Doctor Octopus has taken over Spider-Man, OR HAS HE!?  At the conclusion of the first issue, we were introduced to […]

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (French: Vous n’avez encore rien vu), 2012. Directed by Alain Resnais.Starring Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi and Sabine Azéma. SYNOPSIS: A group of actors are invited to watch a recorded interpretation of their deceased friend’s play ‘Eurydice’, which each of the assembled group had previously starred in. I remember 2007, and […]

Matt Smith reviews the second episode of the new US TV drama The Following… After imprisoning Joe Carroll, Ryan Hardy must find Claire Matthews’ son who has been taken by Carroll’s acolytes. At the same time, he must help the FBI find whoever’s responsible for the murder of numerous women at a university. So, episode […]