In the past decade, Marvel has reigned over the comic book film genre with an iron fist. It seemed after Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, that saw its final release The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, […]
‘Birds of Prey’ Plunders: A Box Office Blunder?
Matthew Moorey expresses his disagreement with DC‘s latest droppings in the Box Office – whether frequent lack of appreciation for women‘s representation is responsible for this.
Robert Pattinson To Take Up The ‘Bat-Suit’: Will His Sparkling Star-Power Save DC?
The DC Universe has been as changeable as Henry Cavill’s fish-like mouth in Justice League. Just as Warner Brothers used the power of CGI to remove Cavill’s mighty moustache from the clean shaved Superman, DC […]
Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn drops the dead weight of the Joker and soars.
The new trailer for Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) dropped last week amid the buzz surrounding the controversial release of Joker, the perfect way for Quinn to rise above […]
Justice League: aims high but hits studio interference
The path to a live action Justice League adaptation has been long, rocky and uneven. From starting production with director Zack Snyder, to bringing Joss Whedon on to do rewrites and reshoots after the untimely […]
The Battle of the Titans: Marvel and DC’s Cinematic Universe
With the release of ‘Justice League’, DC’s plan for an expansive cinematic universe has been set in motion. But how do their films compare to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and what makes them so different? […]
Review: Powerless, With No Power Comes No Originality
DC’s attempt at breathing some comedy into its universe falls somewhat flat, with hollow humour, hollow characters, and a hollow story. The premise of DC’s latest TV series Powerless sounds interesting enough: it promised superheroes […]
Film | Both Marvel and DC step forward with big reveals about their future films
Well, it’s a good week to be a superhero fan. We’ve had so much news in the past two days from both Marvel and DC it’s hard to know where to begin. On Tuesday it […]
Books | The Changing Face of Comic Books
The comic book industry is a strange one. It’s dominated almost entirely by two companies -Marvel and DC – and as such, it’s perhaps the only entertainment industry that has managed to exclude, overlook or […]
Film | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Garfield and Stone's on-screen chemistry saves the day
Video: Marvel Enterprises In the complicated world of comic book superheroes, Spider-Man, a Marvel creation, starts his journey off in very much the same way we saw in the first film in this franchise, and […]
EdBookFest | Neil Gaiman on ‘Sandman’
EdBookFest | Neil Gaiman on ‘Sandman’ When Neil Gaiman was a young man, he discovered that comic books were banned at his school. Considering them as valid as any ‘high’ art form Gaiman took his […]