Luke Owen reviews the first issue of John Byrne’s The High Ways… “Humanity has not yet reached for the stars, but the Solar System is still a busy, exciting, and sometimes very dangerous place, as young Eddie Wallace is about to discover, when he joins the crew of a freighter that hauls cargo along THE […]
My Favourite Arnie Movie – Predator (1987)
With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Chris Cooper with 1987’s Predator… “Run! Go! Get to da choppah!”“Stick around.”“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”“Come on… Come on! Do it! Do it! Come on! Kill me! […]
Stranger Than Fiction: William Goldenberg talks about Argo
Trevor Hogg chats with film editor William Goldenberg about working with Ben Affleck and the challenges of assembling Argo… “Ben [Affleck] was a much more sophisticated director on Argo [2012] than he was on Gone Baby Gone [2007],” observes William Goldenberg who assembled the directorial debut as well as the third effort from the Hollywood […]
HMV Sprees and Fopp Drops
Simon Columb on the demise of the high street entertainment store… When I was 16 a friend and I were keen to go to the cinema. Checking our change, we were short by mere pennies and were mortified at the prospect of spending another two hours simply hanging about the shopping centre – something we […]
Roman Polanski BFI Retrospective – Cul-de-sac (1966)
Simon Columb attends the Roman Polanski retrospective at BFI Southbank… Roman Polanski remains a fascinating filmmaker to this day. Alongside Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Polanski came to the fore in the late 1950s in Poland. The BFI in London are screening all of Polanski’s films during January and February 2013 and throughout January, essays […]
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje talks Thor: The Dark World and Black Panther
Chris Hemsworth is certainly going to have his hands full this November in Thor: The Dark World, with the God of Thunder going up against his evil stepbrother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), along with two new villains in Christopher Eccleston’s (Doctor Who, G.I Joe: Retaliation) Malekith the Accursed and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s (Lost, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) dual […]
Comic Book Review – Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbusters
Luke Owen reviews the latest in IDW’s January series – Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbustes “Something even stranger is in the neighbourhood when the restless spirits of some merciless Martians are stirred from their slumber to attack again! It’s up to the REAL Ghostbusters to save New Jersey from this angry red threat. Well… if […]
My Favourite Arnie Movie – Commando (1985)
With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, David Bishop with 1985’s Commando… The 80s were a defining decade for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator, Predator and Conan all helped to launch his career and make him one […]
Peter Farrelly on Dumb & Dumber To and Three Stooges sequel
The Farrelly brothers hit the Hollywood scene back in 1994 with a little comedy called Dumb & Dumber. Many people reportedly turned it down not knowing that it would become a massive hit, but Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did not and now, 19 years later, it looks like the four of them could be […]
Thoughts on… Gangster Squad (2013)
Gangster Squad, 2013. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte and Josh Pence. SYNOPSIS: A 1940s crime tale about the rise and fall of gangster Mickey Cohen. Let me start by saying that I enjoyed Gangster Squad, but it […]