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Kick-Ass Movie Review
2010
Director: Matthew Vaughan
Script: Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
Cast: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong
While recent Box Office successes such as Wanted and Iron Man 2 have proved that the superhero movie is here to stay, the genre itself is arguably becoming stagnant and increasingly formula driven. Thank [expletive] for Kick-Ass, a bold, … read more
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Tagged comic books, Icon Comics, Marvel Comics, superhero movies
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Avatar Movie Review
2009
Director: James Cameron
Script: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver
In 1986, James Cameron gave us Aliens, a movie which climaxed with Sigourney Weaver going head to head with a queen Xenomorph in a power lifter – despite the acid-spitting extra-terrestrial’s superior design it was clearly no match for … read more
Harry Brown Film Review
2009
Director: Daniel Barber
Script: Gary Young
Cast: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Iain Glen, Jack O’Connell, Jamie Downey, Ben Drew, Liam Cunningham
Harry Brown is the kind of movie best viewed with an open mind and an empty conscience. This tale of an elderly Royal Marine veteran who decides to police his run-down council estate with … read more
Watchmen Movie Review
2009
Director: Zack Snyder
Script: David Hayter, Alex Tse
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
A bit like the archetypal half-caste kid who is unwanted by both the bloodlines he is born into, anyone brave enough to tackle as monumental a project as bringing Alan Moore’s Watchmen to the … read more
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Tagged Alan Moore, comic book movies, DC Comics, superhero movies, Watchmen
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Justice League: The New Frontier DVD Review
2008, Warner Bros.
Director: Dave Bullock
Written by: Stan Berkowitz, Darwyn Cooke
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Jeremy Sisto, Lucy Lawless, Neil Patrick Harris, David Boreanaz, Phil Morris, Miguel Ferrer, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: Dave Bullock
Written by: Stan Berkowitz, Darwyn Cooke
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Jeremy Sisto, Lucy Lawless, Neil Patrick Harris, David Boreanaz, Phil Morris, Miguel Ferrer, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick
While DC’s first direct-to-video animated film Superman: Doomsday wasn’t disastrous, for the sake of brevity it abandoned all but a few key features of the original comic arc … read more
The Spirit Movie Review
2009
Director: Frank Miller
Script: Frank Miller
Cast: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Dan Lauria, Sarah Paulson, Paz Vega, Stana Katic, Jaime King, Louis Lombardi
Frank Miller’s directorial debut sees him emulating Rodriguez emulating Miller emulating Will Eisner, in this turgid adaptation of the seminal crime-fighter comic strip. Whereas Sin City glamorised audiences into forgiving its … read more
The Prestige Movie Review
2006
Dir: Christopher Nolan
Script: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie
As stage ingeneur John Cutter (Caine) explains during The Prestige’s opening, there are three stages of a magic act: the pledge; in which the magician shows us something ordinary, the turn; in which the magician “takes the ordinary something and … read more
Hellboy II Movie Review
2008
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Script: Guillermo del Toro, Mike Mignola
Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, John Hurt
As much as it may agitate the bitter pro-auterist cinephile, there’s a lot to be said for imposed creative restriction. If the excessive Brontosaurus chase in the recent remake of King Kong proved one … read more
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Tagged comic book movies, Dark Horse Comics, Hellboy, superhero movies
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Wall E Movie Review
2008
Director: Andrew Stanton
Script: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
After the delightfully oddball concoction Ratatouille, Pixar has moved further still from family movie conventions with Wall E, the tale of a diminutive recycling robot (a Waste Allocation Load Lifter … read more
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie Review
2008
Director: Dave Filoni
Written by: Henry Gilroy, Steven Melching, Scott Murphy
Voice Cast: James Arnold Taylor, Matt Lanter, Ashley Drane, Tom Kane, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
There’s a noticeable lack of grandeur in the very first minutes of Clone Wars. Gone is the scrolling text, replaced by a recap montage and a Starship Trooper-esque commentary which … read more
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