The Best view | Watchmen
Fans of graphic novels have been trying for years to convince me of the medium’s merits. Try as I might, though, I’m afraid I can’t shake off my prejudice that a comic book in the hands of a grown-up...
View ArticleOut on DVD | Watchmen
Surprise, surprise! Alan Moore disowned the long-awaited screen version of his cult comic book Watchmen well before it reached the screen – as has long been his warped wont with adaptations of his...
View ArticleFilm review | Rock of Ages – Tom Cruise goes for broke but hair-metal musical...
The rude and raucous heyday of 1980s hair metal is relived in this starry screen version of jukebox musical Rock of Ages, but despite the cast’s game efforts the results are disappointingly tame and...
View ArticleFilm review | The Numbers Station – John Cusack tries to count out of the spy...
John Cusack plays that familiar movie type the burnt-out secret agent in old-school spy thriller The Numbers Station. He’s started having moral qualms about killing, which gets him assigned to a...
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