Orson Welles’ decline amid flashes of brilliance is an integral part of what makes his life story so compelling, albeit frustrating…

Two great spin-offs from (relatively) recent high-profile runs on the ‘X-Men’ franchise…

… Bolton Wanderers Nil.

Self-published comics are a long game…

A messy pulp.

Full-blooded.

Future shockers.

Crazy, like.

Lipstick vigilantism.

Or ‘Thursday Comics’, for readers in the UK.

The write stuff?

There’s a Criminal practice that takes up most of our – damn, I’ve already done that one.

I have mixed feelings about Terry Gilliam. While I like a lot of his films, and love a couple of them, I can’t help feeling that he’s not quite the artistic martyr his fans make him out to be…

This ‘Emma’ isn’t clueless…

If Britain has a great TV industry it is because of the BBC, not in spite of it.

Fun with Dick and Damian… oh, and Azrael too.

“It’s the 90s, and it’s time for… horrible painted artwork!”

Now that’s an uncomfortable title for a white bloke to type.

Just one more thing…

From being pencilled by Bob Kane to being made into a game by Rocksteady: a birthday look at Batman both in the beginning and in 2009.

Someone much smarter than me (no heckling at the back) once pointed out the gap in knowledge that a lot of us have regarding the major events that occurred before our birth and through our early childhood, events we are too young to understand, and too re

Animal magic.

‘Lost’. In space.

‘The Rainbow Orchid’ seemed, from the level of activity around the author’s table, to be one of the sleeper hits at this year’s British International Comics Show…

Ten Little Preppies. (No spoilers.)

Play is the thing.

‘Taken’ is perhaps the most insidious, reactionary, vile action film of the last 20 years…

The middle of the end?

Architecture and mortality.

With ‘Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen’, Bay has thrown realism out of the window in exchange for a fantasy adventure closer to ‘Men In Black’ than ‘Pearl Harbour’, and all for the better…

Nice with a slice.

The ‘Terminator’ series has two prevailing themes. One of them is inevitability, how it is impossible to escape from destiny. Terminator: Salvation dramatises this in quite an unusual way, as a form of concept art…

An FBI agent heads a top-secret team dedicated to investigating the strange and the paranormal. Pretty good idea for a TV show – Chris Carter certainly thought so and it worked out for him.

You’ll have someone’s eye out with that…

I love DC Comics…

I can’t seem to stop watching ‘Robin Hood’…

Our hero is a farmboy, raised in a desert by his Uncle. He meets an old comrade of his Father’s who tells him his Dad died a hero and that he should follow in his footsteps… sound familiar, at all?

The danger with satire is that it can swiftly become out of date…

Creating ‘Best of’ DVDs with running times of only three hours for two TV series that ran for 80 and 178 episodes respectively is going to be a thankless task, whichever way you cut it

‘Star Trek’ is a franchise that, instinctively, ought to be strong and vibrant but which had ground to a halt.

Do I review this for the general audience that will, I suspect, flock to this dazzling, exciting blockbuster in droves or do I review it for my fellow long term ‘Star Trek’ fans?

With career-best art from Kevin O’Neill and a script that somehow evokes the atmosphere of a great twentieth century Marxist opera on a comic book page, ‘1910′ is nothing short of astonishing.

With four days to the new ‘Star Trek’ movie, we take a look at the first.

Bub’ll squabble.

I’d like to say something new about ‘Star Trek II’, but I probably ‘’KHAAAAAAAAAAAN’T’’

With time ticking away until JJ Abrams’ ‘Star Trek’ prequel (which we’ve actually seen, yeah, look impressed) we review all ten previous movies.

With time ticking away until JJ Abrams’ ‘Star Trek’ prequel, we look at all ten previous movies in reverse order.

With just weeks until JJ Abrams’ ‘Star Trek’ prequel, we take a quick look at the ten previous movies. In reverse order, naturally.

… they take up most of our time: recent UK TV crime series ‘Whitechapel’, ‘Moses Jones’, and ‘Red Riding’ hit DVD.

With just weeks until JJ Abrams’ ‘Star Trek’ prequel, we take a quick look at the ten previous movies. In reverse order, naturally.