Well, here’s something unique – a Mark Millar book that’s better written than it is drawn. Which is not to say that this is a brilliant script, merely that the art is worse…

Zack Snyder’s remake of George Romero’s original ‘Dawn of the Dead’ keeps faith with the original by the simple method of doing something completely different…

‘Scooby Doo 2: Monster Unleashed’ consciously tries to correct the flaws of its predecessor, and in many ways is able to take a more relaxed approach to proceedings…

Here’s a wacky idea – a ‘Star Trek’ part work with ‘free’ DVDs.

I was going to attempt to write this review in rhyme, but I didn’t have the time. Plus, as Mike Myers ‘Cat in the Hat’ says, ‘I don’t do the rhyming thing well.’

The question of what would happen if one half of a relationship has their memory erased every time they go to sleep, meaning that each day the relationship begins anew, is an interesting high-concept idea…

The 26 episodes in this box set stand head and shoulders above any season of ‘Star Trek’ produced since although, to be frank, that isn’t really saying very much…

If the third season was the most inventive, and the fourth the most consistent then fifth was perhaps the most eclectic; no longer in the shadow of a TV legend, it spread its metaphorical wings and flew.

It’s hard to objectively review what some have called ‘Braindead Meets The Life of Brian’, the film that is to Mel Gibson what ‘Battlefield: Earth’ was to John Travolta…

‘Master and Commander – The Far Side of the World’ may be exhaustingly entitled but it isn’t a film which leaves you fuming at the director’s self-indulgence or fretting at wasted screen-time.

Watching ‘Clone Wars’ gives me an understanding of why people inject hard drugs. It makes me insanely happy for three minutes – and then I want to do it again.

Here’s a challenge – develop an Alan Moore story idea in a way that lives up to the pitch, but without being pastiche of what an imagined Moore version might be like…

‘The Matrix Revolutions’ is not the unmitigated disaster that some have claimed, but it’s certainly a very disappointing end to the trilogy…

Hal Hartley’s first movie is the archetypal American independent movie, eccentric and witty with deadpan performances and an eye for incongruous detail…

‘The O.C.’ is perfectly timed in more ways than one…

‘Amores Perros’ is three interlinked stories where the relationship between people and dogs act as a metaphor for their relationships with other humans…

How fast it all goes wrong…

A glance at the BBC’s list of the nation’s favourite sitcoms demonstrates that Channel 4 has struggled to produce a genuinely enduring comedy…

‘Starsky and Hutch’ is an exceptionally stupid film. It is also, in reality, more of a sequel to previous Wilson/Stiller projects such as ‘Zoolander’ than an attempt to re-interpret the 70s cop show for a contemporary audience.

A long time ago Empire Magazine published a box-out examining the magic formula of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.

Titan Books have given a new lease of life to 007’s most neglected adventures: those serialised in cartoon form in the Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers from 1958 to 1981.

This book has had a bit of good press, so let me now redress the balance: I’ve given it three issues to impress me and, well, do I look impressed?

Yep, it’s this title again… already. What can we say? DC are throwing talent at this book, with interesting results…

A huge stack of Whedon came out on DVD last week. There’s ‘Angel’ season four, a ‘Buffy’ greatest hits, and a selection of character-themed discs…

Marvel’s Epic experiment comes to an end with the last issue of John Jackson Miller’s ‘Crimson Dynamo’, a six-issue mini-series that has taken the old ‘Iron Man’ villain in a new direction…

Channel 4’s ‘back in time’ entries into the reality TV genre are certainly some of the best thought out, and they also produce some quite interesting results…

A gang of thieves and tricksters fool a ‘mark’ out of a small fortune while leading the audience through a convoluted plot, rife with misdirection and tailed with the obligatory surprise ending…

Not John Prescott? Yeah, and Charles Foster Kane wasn’t William Randolph Hurst.

The notion that ‘history is the new rock and roll’ has always struck me as ignorant. What this series does is demonstrate that there have always been historical superstars and rock and roll is the real newcomer…

Six years ago this line-up would have been labelled ‘It’s Ross Noble Night on BBC2′ and a special BBC2 logo in the shape of Ross Noble would have been commissioned to mark the occasion…

In theory, the combination of indie-comics creators with big mainstream properties is a win-win deal. This isn’t necessarily how it always works…

Who could resist a title like that? Only a filthy swab or a dirty landlubber, let’s face it…

Another week, another Marvel comic with Spidey on the cover but not in the actual story…

‘Gotham Knights’ has been a blighted title since its inception. With issue #50, a change of approach has arrived…

It’s been more than three years since Christopher Brookmyre, Strathclyde’s answer to Carl Hiassen, revisited the character who started off his literary career…

After all the talk surrounding Lars Von Trier’s experiment in cinematic minimalism, you’d be forgiven for thinking ‘Dogville’ was some unique piece of film shining in the multiplex firmament, rather than an overlong stage play without sets…

After a couple of issues mostly comprised of big long punch-ups, this issue of ‘Superman/Batman’ provides the payoff – and it’s more than I was expecting…

Regular readers of this site will surely have realised by now that I’m a complete sucker for comic book movies, and in particular find the DVDs of these films impossible to resist…

‘Godfall’ is an idea we’ve seen before, but creators Turner, Kelly and Caldwell add enough twists to the story to make it work in its own right…

In comics, good titles don’t go unused for long – even if the concepts attached to them change. Back in the 1980s, ‘Secret Wars’ saw a few dozen Marvel superheroes and supervillains abducted from Earth for spurious reasons…

A tale of two series: one faded bestseller, and one under-selling critical hit. Can this crossover revive the fortunes of both?

My initial doubts about ‘Plastic Man’ – whether it would sustain itself over the long haul – have quickly vanished over the course of issues #2 and #3…

Last time Bernardo Bertolucci was in Paris, he did wonders for the sale of butter…

Anyone who’s seen ‘High Fidelity’ will remember the character played by Jack Black – a grimy, pudgy, immensely sarcastic rock snob with face permanently locked into a demonic sneer…

It’s an enduring testimony to the legacy of ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ that even today the film, and its titular rock act, still get referenced and riffed upon everywhere from ‘The Simpsons’ to highbrow academia…

There’s a certain amount of bravery in making this film at all, yet the end result is somewhat callow…

‘Freddy vs Jason’ brings together two franchises that thrived on home video, so it’s no surprise this installment is as much fun at home as on its cinema release…

Some ideas are as good or as bad as the execution. So much of ‘New Frontier’ sounds terrible in abstract – but in the hands of writer/artist/genius Darwyn Cooke, this may well be the superhero series of the year…

I read this latest issue of ‘Detective Comics’ under what are perhaps the ideal conditions for reviewing a mainstream comic…

The other day I was asked for recommended comic purchases. I thought long and hard about this…