Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012, which is being covered by Samantha Morrison… Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, 2012. Directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. Featuring the voice talents of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Betty White and Jenny Slate. SYNOPSIS: Thneedville is […]
Movie Review – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, 2012. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Starring Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie, Rufus Sewell and Marton Csokas. SYNOPSIS: After his mother is killed by vampires, Abraham Lincoln takes it upon himself to vanquish the undead. Modern film making doesn’t get much worse than Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I […]
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012 – Killer Joe (2011)
Killer Joe, 2011. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. SYNOPSIS: A down-and-out family in Texas decide to kill their alcoholic mother for her $50,000 life insurance policy, and hire the eponymous Killer Joe (Matthew McConaughey) to do the job. Not being able to afford […]
The Week in Spandex – The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, Daredevil, Marvel and DC Animation and more
Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man may be the next superhero movie out of the gate, but Warner Bros. stole a march on their rival this week with the release of a brand new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, which offered up […]
Thoughts on… Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead, 1994. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Angus Scrimm. SYNOPSIS: The cross-country hunt for the mortician continues as the plot thickens. After a brief montage which attempts to clue in any audiences that may have missed Phantasm (1979) and Phantasm II (1988), […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to Prometheus
The Flickering Myth writing team debate Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Beware of spoilers within… The dust has finally settled on Ridley Scott’s (Blade Runner, Gladiator) not-just-a-prequel-to-Alien, Prometheus. Billed as one of the movie events of the 21st century in some quarters, let alone just 2012, Prometheus had an awful lot of hype to live up to. […]
ComicBookMovie.com reviews Holy Franchise, Batman!
There’s just over a week to go until the UK release of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen, and a splendid new review has been posted by Mark “RorMachine” Cassidy of ComicBookMovie.com, who has been kind enough to give it five stars, describing the book as “by far the most comprehensive […]
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 – Episode 4 – Review
Luke Graham continues his episode by episode review of E4’s latest American sitcom… After what I felt was a relatively weak episode, the latest episode of Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 not only picked things up, but might be the best episode so far. The strength of The Wedding was how it changed […]
Thoughts on… Rock of Ages (2012)
Rock of Ages, 2012. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Cranston, Malin Akerman, Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige. SYNOPSIS: A small town girl moves to Los Angeles with ambitions to make it as a singer. In 2007, director Adam Shankman had a […]
Barbarella heading to the small screen courtesy of Nicolas Winding Refn
Earlier this year, the French-owned Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis announced that they’d be bringing the celebrated movie serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the small screen, and now Deadline has revealed that they plan to follow this with another series based around the comic book character Barbarella, made famous of course by […]
