A very Constantine Christmas.
Archive for 2008
Fantastic in both senses of the word.
‘The Eclipse’ two-parter was a depressingly low point for ‘Heroes’ Season 3…
‘Secret Invasion’ is over, and ‘Dark Reign’ is here. (Really, really don’t read this if you haven’t read ‘Secret Invasion’ #8.)
This evening the first two minutes of the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special, ‘The Next Doctor’ were shown on BBC1…
Few writers have created such a legacy of avid hero-worship and sycophantically fawning sentimentality as Hunter S. Thompson…
‘Haruhi’ is something of a cult series…
The London Film Festival this year has a program packed with big name releases.
The loneliness of the post apocalyptic production runner.
This year’s surprise film is…
Ten years since ‘Fight The Future’ brought the alien conspiracy to a crescendo and gave us an X-Files that was bigger, badder and madder than the TV show, Chris Carter returns with a follow-up movie, ‘I Want To Believe’…
A review of this week’s ‘Batman: Gotham Knight’, and a bit about ‘New Frontier’ and ‘Superman: Doomsday’ while we’re at it…
Forty years on from ‘Night of the Living Dead’, writer/director George A Romero has still got it…
A short movie that nonetheless seems a trifle long ‘The Incredible Hulk’ is utterly, almost desperately, okay.
Semi-professional, unofficial spin-off productions crafted by fans seem to be an inevitable result of a long-running TV series going off the air
Small towns in the UK are pretty much the same all over.
An absolutely first-rate, brilliant piece of James Bond that I suspect is going to be massively misunderstood and underrated.
‘Rock and Roll Love’ is the classic high school comic book story: a girl arrives at a small town school, makes friends, fancies impossibly cute boys and loves rock music…
Advertising: it’s all smoke and mirrors. In the case of ‘Mad Men’, it’s all smoke and glass skyscrapers…
Conventional wisdom has it that Hollywood action movies are the preserve of the American right…
The brilliant manga comes to the screen as the first of two live action movies, but does the big screen do the small page justice?
‘Black Sheep’ firmly maintains the Kiwi tradition for making the grungiest, funniest and most physically substantial horror movies in the world today…
Season one of ‘Love Soup’ didn’t quite taste right, but season two has fixed the recipe…
I’ve only seen Harry “H” Corbett play three parts. That’s one more than most people have.
The film series of Capcom’s zombie franchise lurches towards competent film-making.
‘Nemesis the Warlock’ is perhaps the perfect ‘2000AD’ strip
When it comes to the sporadically produced and largely repetitive film series that this TV show is based upon I am something of an agnostic.
A different kind of ‘Doctor Who’ story, from the days before the idea of what a ‘Doctor Who’ story was like became so set in stone…
‘AVP: Requiem’ succeeds by taking everything about the previous ‘Aliens versus Predator’ movie and inverting it.
Was it me, or was this a fairly quiet Christmas for the BBC?
I’ve been a big fan of JMS’ ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ since it began and one of the things I liked, no loved, about it was his portrayal of the real and enduring love between Peter Parker and his wife Mary Jane.

