As well as overseeing the upcoming Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful, Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator) is busy writing the scripts for Daniel Craig’s next two spy adventures in Bond 24 and Bond 25 and IGN caught up with the Skyfall scribe, during which they managed to grab a few comments about the next 007 […]
Special Features – Matthew McConaughey: Zero to Hero
Jackson Ball on the career resurgence of Matthew McConaughey…. Hollywood is often painted as a cruel, unforgiving place. A place where second chances are few and far-between and if you blow your ‘big break’, you are forgotten instantaneously. It sounds like quite a bleak environment to be around, so it’s always reassuring when someone comes […]
Second Opinion – The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Directed by Martin Scorsese.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal. Jon Favreau and Jean Dujardin. SYNOPSIS: Based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort, depicting his rise to wealthy, debauched stockbroker and his fall to drug addict and federal prisoner. Throughout The […]
Movie Review – Roulette (2012)
Roulette, 2012. Written and Directed by Erik Kristopher Myers.Starring Mike Baldwin, Ali Lukowsky and Will Haza. SYNOPSIS: The story of Roulette centers around three characters; Dean Jensen (Mike Baldwin), Richard Kessler (Will Haza), and Sunshine ‘Sunny’ Howard (Ali Lukowski). The three characters all suffer from suicidal thoughts brought on by depression and past events, later discovered to […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the 86th Academy Award nominations
The Flickering Myth writing team discuss the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards… On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards, which you can check out in full here if you haven’t already seen them, or you just want to remind yourself who’ll be contesting […]
ABC announces Toy Story That Time Forgot Christmas Special
After the success of the Halloween-themed Toy Story of Terror!, ABC and Pixar are set to team up again this year for a Christmas Special entitled Toy Story That Time Forgot, which according to Variety will revolve around a “post-Christmas play date for the Toy Story gang where a group of action figures turn out […]
The Week in Spandex – Batman vs. Superman, Ant-Man, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gotham and more
Our weekly round up of all the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman vs. Superman, Justice League, Gotham, Constantine, Amazon, The Flash, Hourman, Arrow, JLA Adventures, Justice League: War Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man 3, All Hail […]
Interview: A conversation with Endangered screenwriter Jack Reher
Zachary Leeman chats with Jack Reher about the upcoming film Endangered, his adaptation of PIN, and the art of screenwriting… Zachary Leeman: Before we get to your upcoming movie Endangered, let’s talk about screenwriting in general. Walk me through the moment you went from aspiring writer to a paid screenwriter with people like Billy Bob Thornton […]
Movie Review – Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, 2013. Written and Directed by Sebastián Silva.Starring Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffman, Juan Andrés Silva, Agustín Silva, José Miguel Silva and Sebastián Silva. SYNOPSIS: As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group’s quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at […]
Movie Review – Delivery Man (2013)
Delivery Man, 2013 Directed by Ken Scott. Starring Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders. SYNOPSIS: An affable underachiever finds out he’s fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his […]
