It's late on a Sunday evening, I've played far too much Super Mario Galaxy 2 (I see star bits when I close my eyes), and it's time to carry on with talking about comics I obtained back in February. Batman and Robin #8 The title of the chapter says it…
After moaning like a sad old man about digital comics yesterday, it's time to talk about the old-fashioned paper type again, as I get round to talking about comics I purchased for my entertainment back in February. The Boys #39 For the most part, I didn't enjoy this issue: the…
By Richard Herring I have been aware of Richard Herring since the Fist Of Fun days; I read his daily blog, I follow him on Twitter, I listen to his podcast with Andrew Collins and have been to one of his live shows (The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace). I…
Another week, another slice of B-movie fun. Centurion is a small British film with a British take on the swords-and-sandals genre. Neil Marshall, writer/director of Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday, likes putting people in peril; the only difference here is that the people are Roman legionnaires, the time is…
Repo Men is a simple, straight-up piece of genre B-movie; it knows what it is, it enjoys being what it is, and does it without embarrassment or pretension, and I enjoyed it for what it is. Because it is based on a novel by co-screenwriter Eric Garcia (The Repossession Mambo),…
[This is a nice piece of content juxtaposition: on the evening that England play their first game of the 2010 World Cup campaign, I talk about a film about women doing roller derby. Actually, I'm amazed that I'm writing anything today: Super Mario Galaxy 2 arrived and that's been wonderfully…
The World Cup may be starting today, but I'm still catching up on films I saw in the cinema earlier this year. I've reached April (I talked about Kick-Ass when it came out at the time), for those of you at home keeping score, so I might even reach a…
Crazy Heart is not the sort of film I would go to the cinema to watch. A film about an alcoholic country music singer/songwriter who was once famous but is now playing small bars is more of my dad's thing; if it wasn't for Jeff Bridges finally getting his Oscar…
Alice In Wonderland is a film that should have been left in 2D – it was not filmed with the special 3D cameras, and you could see that it was a 2D film coerced into 3D in parts with fuzzy background characters in certain scenes, and it hurt the visual…
It's not surprising that this film didn't do as well as it could have done, although it is a shame – it is an intelligent action thriller, exactly the sort of thing to give the genre a good name and provide a thought-provoking yet simultaneously exciting film, something of which…