Dredd 3D, 2012. Directed by Pete Travis.Starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Langley Kirkwood, Wood Harris, Luke Tyler, Junior Singo, Jason Cope, Domhnall Gleeson and Rakie Ayola. SYNOPSIS: A feared lawman takes on a vicious gang of drug dealers in the sprawling urban jungle of Mega City One. Anyone who thought the 1995 Sylvester […]

Oliver Davis with five actors in desperate need of a career reboot… Reboots and remakes, they’re all the rage. Universal Studios recently announced that they’ll be concentrating on franchises going forward; more Bournes, which recently got ‘rebooted’ (Bourne Again, anyone?); at least another Ted; and a barrel-load of animation films. Superhero films are particularly susceptible. […]

The actor who used to play Quentin, the werewolf brother to vampire Barnabus Collins on the original ABC television series Dark Shadows, has been transformed into Commissioner James Gordon for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. To mark the arrival of Part 1, Warner Home Video has released a Q&A with the man behind the voice […]

Rhino Season, 2012. Directed by Bahman Ghobadi. Starring Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Belçim Bilgin, Caner Cindoruk, Arash Labaf and Ali Pourtash. SYNOPSIS:After spending 30 years in an Iranian prison, a poet searches for his wife. Inspired by a friend who was incarcerated during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, filmmaker Bahman Gobadi tells a […]

Luke Owen wonders whether the WWE should have stopped Raw this past Monday after Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler suffered a heart attack during the live TV broadcast… While I know that Flickering Myth is a dedicated film and TV website, this has been something that has been playing on my mind for the last few […]

British filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) caused quite a stir back in July when he screened a reel of test footage for his long-in-development Ant-Man adaptation during Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International. For those of us not fortunate enough to attend the SDCC, Marvel […]

Much Ado About Nothing, 2012. Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Ashley Johnson, Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Sean Maher, Riki Lindhome and Spencer Treat Clark. SYNOPSIS:Sibling rivalry leads to a series of romantic miscommunications that threatens the ability of a young couple to marry. Considering he is known for writing […]

To the Wonder, 2012. Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring Ben Affleck,,Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko,,Charles Baker, Romina Mondello,,Cassidee Vandalia and Darryl Cox. SYNOPSIS: After his marriage fails a man renews a relationship with a hometown sweetheart. The key to understanding the movies made by Terrence Malick is that he adopts a narrative based on the subconscious […]

Despite being one of this summer’s most anticipated blockbusters, audience reaction to director Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to the sci-fi genre, Prometheus, was decidedly mixed at best. However, while a number of fans were left underwhelmed by the [not an] Alien prequel, that doesn’t seem to be the case for fellow filmmaker James Cameron, who […]

Cloud Atlas, 2012. Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. Starring Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Keith David, James D’Arcy, Xun Zho, Doona Bae and Zhu Zhu. SYNOPSIS: The actions of individuals influence the past, present and future lives of others. From […]