Author: Carl Doherty
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The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme Mannen) Movie Review
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2006 Dir: Jens Lien Script: Per Schreiner Cast: Marian Saastad Ottesen, Fridjov Såheim, Kirsti Eline Torhau The Bothersome Man begins with perhaps the most nauseating and disparaging kiss in movie history. As he watches two adolescent lovers slurping hideously as they attempt to eat each others faces, bland everyman Andreas nonchalantly jumps in front of…
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Batman: Gotham Knight DVD Review
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Directors: Shojiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam Writers: Brian Azzarello, Josh Olson, David Goyer, Greg Rucka, Jordan Camera Goldberg, Alan Burnett Cast: Kevin Conroy, Gary Dourdan, David McCallum, Parminder Nagra, Ana Ortiz An anthology of six different shorts from six disparate art teams, Batman: Gotham Knight was perhaps an…
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Warner Brothers Surveys Capcom’s Lost Planet
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in Movie NewsSub-zero sci-fi coming to the big screen Despite Iron Man, Hellboy 2 and The Dark Knight all extending beyond the salivating fanboy demographic and enjoying mainstream attention, Hollywood is arguably at risk of running the comic book repository dry. The solution? Resume drilling, with Daniel Plainview fortitude, into that other bottomless source of inspiration: the…
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Thunderbolts vol. 1: Faith in Monsters TPB Review
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2008, Marvel Writer: Warren Ellis, Paul Jenkins Artist: Mike Deodato Jr., Mark Silvestri, Marc Guggenheim, Leinil Yu Colours: Rainier Beredo, June Chung, Dave McCaig, Frank D’Armata Okay, so it’s another year, another reboot for the Thunderbolts, a series that has always been enjoyable but never exceptional. With sales magnet Warren Ellis on board, and a…
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Hancock Movie Review
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2008 Dir: Peter Berg Script: Vince Gilligan, Vincent Ngo Cast: Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize Theron, Eddie Marsan Formerly a hot property which numerous studios fancied making but could not conceive the special effects on a feasible budget, Tonight He Comes’ decade-long journey from screenplay to screen has attracted an equal share of interest and…
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The Ultimates vol. 1: Super-human TPB Review
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2002, Marvel Story: Mark Millar Pencils: Bryan Hitch Inks: Andrew Currie Colours: Paul Mounts From the very first issue, The Ultimates defines its intentions with a suckerpunch; this is the Avengers in our world, driven by our politics and prone to our vices. Back to that first issue. The last hurrah of World War II…
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Wanted Movie Review
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2008 Dir: Timur Bekmambetov Script: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan Cast: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Konstantin Khabensky, Marc Warren, Terrence Stamp I must confess to having had a difficult time reading Mark Millar’s superhero satire Wanted the first time around, and further difficulty in reviewing it. How could I objectively…
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Batman: Dark Victory TPB Review
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1999, DC Story: Jeph Loeb Art: Tim Sale Colours: Gregory Wright Dark Victory follows on directly from the events of Loeb and Sales The Long Halloween. With the supposed Holiday killer Alberto Falcone behind bars, a new serial killer, the Hangman, is targeting Gotham City’s corrupt cops. As you can imagine, there’s a veritable buffet…