It’s that time of decade again – DC’s premier super team needs a conceptual spring clean and relaunch…

And you thought the problems with catching your flight were bad…

Zarjaz, or a load of old munce?

It may be too much to say that Japanese animation is experiencing a renaissance in the UK at present…

It was fundamentally wrong-headed for TOTP’s final edition to be an exercise in nostalgia: a compendium of material from the past, linked by ancient DJs…

Like ‘All-Star Superman’, this is a series Grant Morrison has been preparing to write for his entire career, and it shows…

Television is a great arena to communicate issues to a mass audience, so obviously when the BBC makes an issue-led drama, it makes sense to give it a high-profile slot, right?

Wonder Woman is one of those characters whom nobody has ever really got right…

Sadly, Superman’s Return seems to have been eclipsed by the far-less-delayed reappearance of Captain Jack Sparrow…

Comics’ oldest continually published title has a new, super-star creative team and by the look of this first issue, it’s going to be an outstanding run.

It was always going to be difficult to live up to ‘The Parting of the Ways’, so people were expecting great things from the conclusion to the second season of Russell T Davies’ ‘Doctor Who’…

Belated Billie bye-bye.

‘Modern Toss’ is an occasional comic book, of the sort that seems at first glance to be designed for the Nathan Barleys of East London, all excessive swearing and low-fi design.

Although the concept of ‘Annually Retentive’ may well inspire suspicion – it wouldn’t be the first TV comedy to attempt to coast on a clever idea without actually being funny – it is very funny, as well as having cleverness beyond its initial concept…

As a sequel to the incredibly excessive ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’, the main achievement of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ is that it manages to make its predecessor seem relatively understated by comparison…

It’s perhaps unfortunate that ‘Fear Her’ comes straight after ‘Love & Monsters’ in this season, because after an episode in the company of Elton, stuck on ‘the slow path’, what we could really do with is a big old cosmic epic…

Traditionally, ‘Doctor Who’ has often managed to make a virtue of necessity…

A thief, his sister, a monster, and a flying casino. Welcome to the world of Casanova Quinn…

It’s a simple fact that Tove Jansson’s ‘Moomins’ stories are the greatest children’s stories ever written…

To the Doctor, a devil.

It’s the ultimate team-up in history: Mark Twain! Nikola Tesla! Some guy with one hand to make the title make sense!

Mark Gatiss’ previous ‘Doctor Who’ episode, ‘The Unquiet Dead’, attracted some criticisms of playing to the gallery…

A true evolution, or a load of old Ratners?

Music biopics are the ‘meh’ genre of films consisting, as they do, of a pretty regular formula of humble origins, emerging talent, the ups and downs of fame, a crisis of some sort and then either triumphant resolution or death…

Who remembers ‘Treasure Hunt’?

Call me a heretic but, outside of ‘Year One’, Frank Miller’s Batman has never gelled for me. He is, in the writer’s own words, not a human being but ‘the god of vengeance’. He’s also ethically to the right of Nietzche.

For once we’ve been able to peep at an advance copy of this week’s ‘Doctor Who’: however, you’ll find no spoilers here…

Considering it’s one of the most shopworn sci-fi clichés in circulation, ‘Doctor Who’ has done surprisingly few alternative universe stories…

Steven Moffat’s ‘The Empty Child’ was one of the highlights of last year’s series of ‘Doctor Who’: funny, scary, romantic and ingenious. With ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’, Moffat has done it again – this is as good as ‘Doctor Who’ gets…

It’s a confused and empty sentimental spectacle with a few good moments here and there but a central core of story that is muddle-headed and painful.

The fist issue of ‘Ion’ finds erstwhile ‘Green Lantern’ (that title now belongs to a 70s retro mass-murderer) Kyle Rayner both on his own and in his own book again.

The Doctor Who New Adventures were a series of novels published during the 1990s that bridged the gap between the old and new series of the television show. ‘School Reunion’ shows that the thinking behind those books was way ahead of its time…

The lower overheads of producing DVDs are creating a world of joy for cineastes and TV-astes, as it becomes more viable for obscure material to get a commercial release…

‘One Year Later’ brings new launch issues for ‘Checkmate’ and ‘Blue Beetle’…

‘The Tomb of the Cybermen’ comes from a period where ‘Doctor Who’ was tired. Mired in formula, it was flagging badly and ended up reiterating the same plot week after week after week.

The plot of ‘Damnation’ is slim, obvious, and ultimately unimportant. What matters is (writer/director) Bela Tarr’s vision of life in 1980s Hungary and the skill with which he interests us in, and then scares us with, his world.

“What was ‘Hex’?” you may ask and the answer won’t surprise you even if you’ve never heard of it, as being surprising wasn’t really one of the things that ‘Hex’ was good at.

There’s something inherently mid-to-late Nineteenth century about ‘Doctor Who’.

The movie adaptation of Konami’s ‘Silent Hill’ games takes us into another plane of reality, an oddly glowing place where films based on videogames can actually be good…

‘King Kong’ came as a pleasant cinematic surprise in the run up to Christmas. However, much of the movie’s plus points are negated by its transition to small screen…

For those of us who retained a keen interest in ‘Doctor Who’ when it was a fusty old dead thing, it’s still difficult to get used to it being something that comes and goes like any other TV programme…

All credit to 2entertain for coming up with a more sensible selection of old-skool ‘Doctor Who’ to issue whilst the second run of shiny new episodes debuts…

With only one day to go to the new series of ‘Doctor Who’, time to reflect on how far the series has come in a year…

In terms of the Marvel characters likely to get picked for a high profile, top talent relaunch, Moon Knight is in roughly the same stratum as Batroc the Leaper and Whistle Pig the Living Totem….

I’ve bought five comics with the ‘Fantastic Four’ in in my whole life. Four of them were by Grant Morrison and the fifth had art by Jim Mahfood.

Somewhere out in space, about 45 light years out, there’s a transmission. A signal amongst the cosmic noise…

If this is heaven, then I choose hell.

As documentary film-making, ‘Murderball’ is an instance of impeccable timing: a production structured with consummate skill also enjoys sublime luck in terms of the events befalling its protagonists…

A hugely clever and enjoyable spin-off from Joss Whedon’s splendid, but swiftly cancelled, SF Western TV show ‘Firefly’, the movie ‘Serenity’ succeeds in reuniting all of the regular cast and tying up plotlines from the series’ 15 episodes.

‘Green Arrow’ has been one of DC’s best, and most consistent, titles since its Kevin Smith-penned relaunch back in the dim and distant.