Ray Willmott reviews Mario Kart 8 on Wii U… If there’s one Nintendo game you can rely on to be gold-standard, it’s Mario Kart. Look back at every iteration over the years and it’s hard to dispute the evidence. Nintendo know how to make a great Kart racer and the good news is, with Mario […]
FMTV Movie Myths – Is There a Time Traveller in Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus?
Yesterday we announced the launch of Flickering Myth TV, a new partnership between ourselves and Trident Vision Media, the folk behind the national UK television shows Wrestle Talk TV and BWC British Wrestling Round-Up. And now we bring you the debut episode of our first series, Movie Myths, where Flickering Myth co-editor Oliver Davis will […]
Video Game Review – Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Ray Willmott reviews Valiant Hearts: The Great War on Playstation 4… World War games on consoles faded away around the early days of Medal of Honour and Call of Duty. The Playstation 2 era was saturated with titles that forced us to relive the horrific events of history’s darkest hours, but ever since then they’ve […]
Comic Book Review – Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #13
Luke Owen looks at Godzilla: Rulers of Earth #13… While Godzilla’s disappearance has brought calm to the planet, a threat from the past is set to resurface and take back the world they once had control over. No monster is safe and no future is certain as one of Godzilla’s greatest enemies prepares to return […]
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura talks G.I. Joe 3
Last week, Paramount Pictures announced that G.I. Joe 3 will hit cinemas some time in 2016, and now producer Lorenzo di Bonaventure (Transformers: Age of Extinction) has been speaking about the third film in the G.I. Joe franchise, stating that filming is expected to get underway early next year, and that a new director should […]
Edgar Ramirez talking to Scott Derrickson for role in Doctor Strange
Though the project has yet to be “officially” confirmed by Marvel Studios, the long-gestating Doctor Strange movie is finally gaining traction, with Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson at the helm. Over the last few weeks the Sorcerer Supreme has been in the news cycle several times, from gaining Prometheus scribe Jon Spaihts to wrangling a list of prospective […]
Comic Book Review – Ghostbusters #17
Luke Owen looks at Ghostbusters #17 from IDW… New York’s unknown dead are buried on Hart Island… and their spirits are about to be stirred, raised and conscripted into an army with but one purpose: raising chaos on the streets of Manhattan. The second half of Mass Hysteria! begins here in our celebration of 30 […]
Movie Review – Keeping Rosy (2014)
Keeping Rosy, 2014. Directed by Steve Reeves. Starring Maxine Peake, Blake Harrison, Elisa Lasowski and Christine Bottomley. SYNOPSIS: When Charlotte loses her job, it sparks off an unpredictable series of events that will change her life forever, for better or worse. Matters are further complicated when an innocent child becomes involved. Independent British films usually […]
Silent Night, Deadly Night heading to Blu-ray
1984 was a killer of a year for horror movies (pun intended) with the release of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Gremlins and A Nightmare on Elm Street, but there was also the Christmas-themed slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night which is now seeing a Blu-ray release. The controversial slasher was banned from cinemas upon […]
Mr. Freeze to show up in Gotham?
FOX’s Batman prequel series Gotham is shaping up to be quite the exploration of the Caped Crusader’s rogues gallery. What began as a telling of future police commissioner James Gordon’s origin has seemingly morphed into a larger exploration of what turned some of Gotham City’s citizens into the villains we know and love. We already know that […]
