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Marvel’s the Avengers — review
Adapted by Joss Whedon from The Coming of the Avengers!, by Stan Lee. Marvel’s the Avengers is the most important release of this decade, because of how mimicked it’s become. In its time, bringing together the protagonists of previous releases was most famous for the Universal monsters from the dawn of sound, but as cinema’s become…
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The Amazing Spider-Man — review
Adapted by James Vanderbilt, Steve Kloves and Alvin Sargent from The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Did you know Spider-Man is the highest-grossing fictional character? When taking into account everything, merely including cinema, he’s earned more money than any other character. So it’s no surprise Columbia Pictures want to keep the character.…
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies — review
Adapted by Stan Berkowitz, based on The World’s Finest. In every superhero team, there comes a point where that team becomes hunted by the government and/or other superheroes. So it’s important for that team to use their version of it to show why they’re the best superhero team. And with superheroes, suspension of disbelief is…
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Superman & Batman: Apocalypse — review
Adapted by Tab Murphy from Supergirl From Krypton. Superman & Batman: Apocalypse is a strange case in terms of what it wants to achieve. The title would tell you it’s a team-up between the World’s Finest, as they journey to Apocalypse to fight Darkseid. Which is what happens, but that isn’t the main event. Instead, the…
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BBC features – Friday 9 to Sunday 11th January 2015
Saturday 10th January 2015 06:00 Apache Territory (Frank L Moss/Charles R Marion/George W George) Western. Cowboy Logan Cates (Rory Calhoun) is caught travelling through Apache territory. He must fight his way out and rescue a woman on his way. 07:10 Private’s Progress (John Boulting/Frank Harvey) Lighthearted comedy about an upper-crust chap who joins the army and…
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Superman vs. the Elite — review
Adapted by Joe Kelly from What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?. There are two ways of experiencing DC Universe Animated Originals, and that’s to either watch it for the animation or for the story. While most DC fans would watch for the animation, since they’re adaptations of other DC storylines, I…
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Superman Doomsday — review
One of the most important things about Kal-El is his villains, without whom there’d be no point to his character. In fact, him having villains makes his tolerable, because it means that he’s at least doing something right. Superman Doomsday is about one thing: the fight between Kal-El and Doomsday. Kal-El being the Human element, who fights Doomsday to…
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Guardians of the Galaxy — review
Marvel are one of the most interesting motion picture studios there are right now, because everything they release is an adaptation of their comic book lines. In adaptations, source material doesn’t matter. I’ve never read a Marvel comic book, so I’ve never known what to expect. I can also say that I’ve never felt alienated by that,…
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Alex Sigsworth 