Young Avengers TPB #1 by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung I have never watched The OC (a bunch of well-off teenagers whining about life? No thanks) and I’ve never been much of an Avengers fanboy. Therefore, this wasn’t a book that was on my radar. However, the great word of…
Daniel Craig makes a good Bond. There. I’ve said it. An actor, known for his acting, who beefed up considerably for the role (although he had previous action hero status when he did his shower scene in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) and able to bring subtle nuance to the role…
Daredevil: The Devil, Inside and Out TPB #1 by Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark ‘The Devil in Cell-Block D’ Carrying on from Bendis and Maleev's run on Daredevil would be a challenge: Matt Murdoch has been outed as Daredevil and put in prison. Where do you go from there? Ed…
Fantastic Four: The End by Alan Davis (inks by Mark Farmer) The future: long after the Mutant War (don’t know what it is but it sounds cool). A deranged Dr Doom attacks the Fantastic Four; Franklin and Valeria Richards join in to help but die with Doom due to an…
Constantine the movie. I never would have imagined it possible. The background character whose visual was based on Sting and became the street-level magic man of the Vertigo universe is somehow transformed into Action Hero. The filmmakers don’t get it: Constantine is a magical conman, not an action hero –…
Written by Frank Miller Directed by Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller (Cut & Shot by Robert Rodriguez) Starring a whole load of people, including Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood, Rutger Hauer, Carla Gugino, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan, Brittany Murphy, Nick Stahl,…
(I think I was the only person in the world who didn't see Spider-Man 3 at the cinemas over the weekend. So, this means I can't read most other blogs at the moment, nor can I write a review of the film, for obvious reasons. Therefore, I shall continue my…
(An old review of a cinema visit, to keep the Asian theme going.) Takeshi Kitano, a multi-faceted actor/director/writer/presenter/artist, known for his aesthetically stylish but hyperviolent Japanese gangster films, makes a film about the original criminals and gangsters in Japanese history. Set in the time of the Shoguns, Kitano plays Zatoichi,…
(This is a review of the film I saw at a preview screening.) Hero tells the tale of the nameless warrior (Jet Li) who has come to the ruler of the Qin kingdom of pre-China to inform him of the manner in which he has slain the three assassins who…
by Brian K Vaughan & Marcos Martin ‘Yes, I’m Iron Fist. No, I don’t know where Power Man is. We’re partners, not a couple.’ Nice dialogue to distract you before the strong start to the series: Strange has been shot. Which is why Wong has brought him to Night Nurse,…