When Millennium Films’ Conan the Barbarian hit cinemas last year, it seemed that any hope of seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to his breakthrough role as Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian had been well and truly shattered. The promised sequel King Conan: Crown of Iron spent many a year in development hell, passing through the […]

Having repaired some of the damage caused by X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine with the 2010’s ‘pre-boot’ X-Men: First Class, 20th Century Fox’s plans for the X-Men franchise have been dealt a blow today with the surprising news that that British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has chosen to pass on the upcoming sequel […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Anghus Houvouras with Quantum of Solace… I’m a Bond fanatic. Officially “in the tank” for a good spy thriller with action, espionage and criminally attractive women. The Bond series has been through a creative […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; next up is Psycho (1960)… I was originally going to review the George A. Romero classic Night of the Living Dead but with the recent release of the trailer for Hitchcock, I felt it was only right to review one […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team vote for their favourite James Bond films before Skyfall, the 23rd entry in the franchise, hits cinemas… If an alien race observed our cinematic habits over the past 50 years they may well pick out one particular universal constant, one glamorously unchanging law. No matter what happens in the world or […]

Luke Owen counts down to Halloween by reviewing horror movies from the last 60 years; first up is The Blob (1958)… The first of our 60 years of horror reviews begins with movie legend Steve McQueen’s feature debut – the 1958 cult classic The Blob. Made independently and for very cheap, The Blob is a […]

Back in May, James Cameron was quoted as stating that his filmmaking future lay solely on the alien world of Pandora, with the back-to-back sequels Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 potentially followed by a fourth instalment, but now it seems the Academy Award-winner is lining up another future project… and no, sadly it’s not the long-rumoured […]

While at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Trevor Hogg was able to take part in a group chat with Brian De Palma who spoke about working within the Hollywood studio system, the video game industry, screenwriting, collaborating with music composers, the remake of Carrie and filmmaking during the 1970s… “The studios offer you movies […]

Road to Hell, 2008. Directed by Albert Pyun.Starring Michael Michael Paré, Clare Kramer, Courtney Peldon, Roxy Gunn, Chris Reject, Ryan Hamman, Jon Mills and Paige Billiot. SYNOPSIS: Albert Pyun’s ode to Walter Hill’s Streets on Fire explores its hero’s dark journey through hell as he seeks the only thing that still matters to him: his […]

Luke Owen discusses the first trailer for Marvel’s Iron Man 3… The first stage of “Phase Two” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is underway with the release of the trailer for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 [watch it here]. Promising (figuratively) to ‘take Stark back to the cave’, the trailer certainly shows a much bleaker Iron […]