I always enjoy checking out these animated DC/Marvel movies, just because I realise how little I know about the wider superhero universe and see them as a nice, handy crash course in familiarising myself with marginal, peripheral characters. What this film does is show you just how violent these stories can be, and how I […] Read more »
Toymaker LEGO has been steadily expanding beyond the simple bricks many of us remember from our childhoods. These days the sets are dazzling, in their detail and range and represent many imaginary universes, rooted in popular films, stories and also worlds LEGO themselves have created. To support this, LEGO moved some time ago in video […] Read more »
As much as anything I selected this title purely for some brainless, Sunday afternoon fun. I understand that it basically lifts its storyline from a recent computer game – Lex Luthor and The Joker team up to wreak havoc on Gotham City with the aid of a huge gun powered by kryptonite. Batman reluctantly joins […] Read more »
The second part of Jay Oliva’s animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s landmark comic continues on apace, introducing a number of familiar characters from the DC Universe, including The Joker, Superman and The Green Arrow. When Joker (voiced here by Michael Emerson from Lost) is foolishly given the chance to go on a TV talk show […] Read more »
I often struggle to really appreciate these animated films, despite enjoying the comics and the characters. There’s something about the medium that simply fails to engage me the way live action or other animated films do. This adaptation of Frank Miller’s seminal The Dark Knight Returns (which I have read) was pretty great, however, and […] Read more »