We're starting to get really excited about the new series of Arrested Development. Jason Bateman has tweeted a photo of Michael Cera on set – "My son arriving yesterday" – and filming starts in a couple of weeks. But when we saw this amazing Dr Tobias Manhattan T-shirt we nearly suffered a … [Read more...]
The Best Comic Book Movie Adaptations
2012 is going to prove a massive year for the comic book film adaptation, with Zack Snyder rebooting Superman with The Man of Steel, Marc Webb taking on The Amazing Spider-man, The Avengers getting their first outing courtesy of Joss Whedon, and of course, there’s the Batman saga coming to an end … [Read more...]
Before Watchmen: the comic book prequel no one wants
It's always a bad sign when your press release launching a new project includes an apology for the existence of the project. DC Comics' announcement that it plans to publish 35 new Watchmen comics this year, 25 years after the original 12-issue series blew the doors off the entire super-hero genre, … [Read more...]
Sucker Punch – Dork Review
Many of my previous film reviews have been of massively acclaimed Oscar-contender movies, where I could only add to a deafening praise chorus. Here, reviewing Sucker Punch, I have the opposite problem: everyone hates it. I mean, look at those review scores, not to mention the mocking I received … [Read more...]