Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the UK release of Django Unchained by selecting their favourite Quentin Tarantino movies; next up is Kirsty Capes with 2003’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1… Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is a bit like a bull in a china shop. There is supposed structure in the narrative form, with each […]

Following the blockbuster success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Disney and Marvel Studios are set to embark on Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this year with the release of Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, with Captain America: The Winter Solider and Guardians of the Galaxy both arriving next year as […]

It could all be over before it’s even really begun for the big screen run of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher character with The Hollywood Reporter claiming that the franchise is unlikely to get a sequel. The film drew a lot of criticism in its early stages with a lot of fans angry at the casting […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of John Byrne’s The High Ways… “Humanity has not yet reached for the stars, but the Solar System is still a busy, exciting, and sometimes very dangerous place, as young Eddie Wallace is about to discover, when he joins the crew of a freighter that hauls cargo along THE […]

With Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to the big screen in The Last Stand, the Flickering Myth writing team look back at their favourite Arnie movies. Next up, Chris Cooper with 1987’s Predator… “Run! Go! Get to da choppah!”“Stick around.”“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”“Come on… Come on! Do it! Do it! Come on! Kill me! […]

Trevor Hogg chats with film editor William Goldenberg about working with Ben Affleck and the challenges of assembling Argo… “Ben [Affleck] was a much more sophisticated director on Argo [2012] than he was on Gone Baby Gone [2007],” observes William Goldenberg who assembled the directorial debut as well as the third effort from the Hollywood […]

Simon Columb on the demise of the high street entertainment store… When I was 16 a friend and I were keen to go to the cinema. Checking our change, we were short by mere pennies and were mortified at the prospect of spending another two hours simply hanging about the shopping centre – something we […]

Simon Columb attends the Roman Polanski retrospective at BFI Southbank… Roman Polanski remains a fascinating filmmaker to this day. Alongside Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Polanski came to the fore in the late 1950s in Poland. The BFI in London are screening all of Polanski’s films during January and February 2013 and throughout January, essays […]

Chris Hemsworth is certainly going to have his hands full this November in Thor: The Dark World, with the God of Thunder going up against his evil stepbrother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), along with two new villains in Christopher Eccleston’s (Doctor Who, G.I Joe: Retaliation) Malekith the Accursed and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s (Lost, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) dual […]

Luke Owen reviews the latest in IDW’s January series – Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbustes “Something even stranger is in the neighbourhood when the restless spirits of some merciless Martians are stirred from their slumber to attack again! It’s up to the REAL Ghostbusters to save New Jersey from this angry red threat. Well… if […]