By Neil Gaiman and various artists [This is an old piece of writing that I discovered, which I thought should be included in my exhaustive compilation of posts about things I have read/viewed/played.] Neil Gaiman's Sandman series was a significant touchstone in my comic book reading life, and remains a…
This is the third film (after Greenberg and Please Give) in the run of ‘Films I watched because there was nothing else on due to the World Cup scaring the studios’. I went to see Wild Target because of some small sense of patriotism: I’d watched two US indies, so…
This falls under the same category for me as Greenberg: a film I wouldn't have gone to see in the cinema if there had been the normal selection in the middle of the summer but wasn't because the studios avoided the four weeks of the World Cup. This isn't to…
It looks like I lasted 4 months this time before I broke my pledge to post something daily on this blog this year. I’m angry with myself that I didn’t post for the past three days, especially as I had already interrupted my run back in April, but I'm also…
The films I’ve been talking about so far this week all came out in the month of June here in the UK. Normally, this is a good month for all sorts of films as the film studios fight for our movie-going money; however, this year was different, because the World…
There are times when I know in advance that watching a film is going to be tough going but I'll watch it because it is getting good reviews and I admire the people behind it. It is a strange sensation, the build-up to the day involving me psyching myself up…
I really wanted to love the film of The Losers because I really love the comic book by Andy Diggle and Jock (I surprised myself when I looked for a post on my blog where I praised the series, but there isn’t one; I shall have to remedy that in…
I went to see this film because Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on the GameCube was a great game: the acrobatics, the fighting with swords, the puzzles, the running up walls, the going back in time – a whole lot of fun, before the fighting became too impossible.…
Blue Beetle #1–19 by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, Cully Hamner, Rafael Albuquerque, Duncan Rouleau and others I don't know if it's a DC versus Marvel thing, or if I'm one of those readers who is ruining comic books by not trying new things, but Blue Beetle was a book that…
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill How late is this discussion of a comic book? It somehow got lost in the pile, which is why it's taken so long to get around to it, but I think that I'd deliberately forgotten it because I hadn't enjoyed it and didn't want…