Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… The recent UK release of Fruitvale Station has inevitably provoked conversation on this side of the Atlantic, whereby re-reading articles from last year only seems to blur lines further: “Hoping to stir the public, though, the film dances around the facts. Its first problem is how to handle […]

Anghus Houvouras on whether Ant-Man will end the Marvel success streak…. The Marvel movies are beyond successful both with fans and financially. It’s a giant machine of perpetual motion that cranks out money-making, audience pleasing hits. However, at some point, the streak is going to die. One of their films will buck the trend and […]

Last month Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull gave an update on Pacific Rim 2, suggesting that there was nothing to announce with regards to a follow-up to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 kaiju homage. However, speaking to Buzzfeed, del Toro has now revealed that he’s currently working on a script for the sequel alongside Zak Penn, […]

Fruitvale Station, 2013. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Melonie Diaz and Octavia Spencer. SYNOPSIS: An arguably biographical reconstruction of the day leading up to the tragic events that took place at the titular Fruitvale Station on New Years Eve, 2008. Coming from a generation that […]

Well, the search is over… After being turned down by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers), Marvel Studios has finally secured a replacement for Edgar Wright on Ant-Man, with Peyton Reed (The Break-Up) signing on to direct. Meanwhile Adam McKay will also contribute to the script, which […]

Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Big Hero 6, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Gambit, James Cameron’s Spider-Man, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, […]

Tom Jolliffe kicks off a new feature at Flickering Myth entitled The Dusty VHS Corner; first up is a trio of 90s straight-to-video action spectaculars in Grid Runners, Martial Law and Back to Even… Remember when films were on things called video cassettes? Remember when they were sold in rental shops, full to the brim […]

While Marvel struggles to get development on Ant-Man back on track, it seems the studio is moving full steam ahead with its plans for another Phase Three offering, Doctor Strange. Having secured a director in Scott Derrickson (Sinister) earlier in the week, Deadline is reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Tom Hardy […]

Jackson Ball reviews the Season 2 premiere of Orange Is the New Black… The first season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black had it all: colourful characters, brilliantly dark humour, critical acclaim and one hell of a cliff-hanger. One year on, it’s time to continue Piper Chapman’s story of incarceration, as we return to […]

It’s been more than two weeks since Edgar Wright left Marvel’s Ant-Man, but it seems the studio is making slow progress in securing a replacement director for the Phase Three movie. Having identified a list of potential successors that included Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), Adam McKay (Anchorman) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re […]