I'd forgotten how many comics I've bought (and not talked about yet) – serves me right for being lazy and not writing about them sooner (and posting old pieces of writing instead, also because I'm lazy). Let us get on with the business of sharing my worthless thoughts. Batman: Return…
Comics that have been purchased by me for my own enjoyment (and for my girlfriend's, depending on which books she wants to read), including my witterings and nonsense words about them. I haven't done this in a while, so it's time to get back on track towards the goal: writing…
I have loved the Sherlock Holmes stories since my youth – the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films on BBC2 on a Friday evening, the definitive television Sherlock Holmes of Jeremy Brett, the original stories themselves, the inspired by/homages/parodies (my favourite 'new' version being Zero Effect, by Jake Kasdan). I…
[This is an old piece of writing – from 2005 – which was an attempt to write an article for a women's magazine about why men should like romantic comedies. I never tried to actually send it, but I do like the attempt, which is why I thought I'd post…
Scalped #30–34 by Jason Aaron and RM Guera It's that time of the year for me to attempt to describe my appreciation for the brilliance that is Scalped. Because I'm slow on the uptake, I arrived late to this superb noir drama, so I'm reading it in trade paperback form;…
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…