Not having a lot of money at the moment to buy new monthly series, I have to be blown away by the prospect of a new book to make me add it to my list. The vast majority of books from the Big Two have to go well out of…
Written by Bill Willingham, with illustrations by Steve Leialoha Fables has been a great comic book since the first issue, so I was looking forward to Willingham's prose story set in the Fables universe. It concerns characters we haven't seen in the comic book: Bo Peep and Peter Piper, and…
I know that my choice of blog reading skews the perspective, but it seems that a lot of sites talk about comic book casting as if it's big news. When Elizabeth Hurley was cast as the villain in the new Wonder Woman television pilot, it was all over the place…
Mark Kermode recently captured his thoughts on film piracy in his Uncut blog, which boiled down to his view that piracy will stopped by simultaneous distribution (releasing a film in cinemas, streaming online and on DVD on the same date). I think that Kermode is coming from a naïve and…
How to describe The Adjustment Bureau: a romantic science-fiction thriller? Whatever it is, George Nolfi has created something unusual, entertaining, intriguing and fun. Nolfi, who makes his directorial debut (after writing The Bourne Ultimatum, The Sentinel, Ocean's Twelve) with this loose adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story, which…
Disclaimer: I don't buy anywhere near enough comic books to be able to post a 'Best Comics of 2010' list. I don't buy anywhere near enough comic books in floppy format on a weekly basis, and I tend to buy a lot more trade paperbacks. This means I haven't read…
Disclaimer: this is not a 'Best Television of 2010' post – I don't subscribe to Sky and all their channels (other satellite/cable providers are available) and I don't download television illegally, so this discussion will not include a lot of quality shows from abroad that might be expected in this…
The Academy Awards have just passed, which means now is as good a time as any to document my favourite 10 films I watched on a cinema screen in 2010. These sorts of posts are usually found in December (which always seems odd to me, because worthy films are released…
There is a maxim about comic book story writing that states that if you could replace the central superhero with a different superhero without it affecting the plot, then the story is not about that specific superhero and it won't work to the strengths of the character. This came to…
In which I pontificate about the major categories at the 83rd Academy Awards because I'm a blogger and that's what we do. (Yes, I can still call myself a blogger, even though I haven't blogged in nearly two months.) Even though I won't be able to watch the actual event,…