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The Incredible Hulk: OK I’m a true believer

I had no vested interest in the Incredible Hulk movie apart from the fact that I am a comic book fan.  Any comic book movie that is well made and does well only serves to help other comic book movies.  It may simply be showing that the genre and non-icon characters are a viable film [...]

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Hellboy II and the right hand of doom

I’m not really sure what drew me to the character of Hellboy, probably the brilliant artwork by Mike Mignola, actually I’m sure it is.  What I expect kept me coming back was the surprisingly droll humour, the real world mythology mixing within the rich tapestry of the BPRD world and of course I still can’t [...]

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Top five comic book movies

In 2007 Spider-man 3 and 300 both appear in the top ten grossing films for that year, in 2006 the comic book movies were X-Men: The Last Stand and Superman Returns and the year before that saw Batman Begins in that top ten list.
Comic book movies are a huge part of the movie industry now [...]

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One sleep to go and then it’s Iron Man time

I really can’t believe that in just over twelve hours I’ll be settling into my seat about to watch one of my favourite comic book characters of all time being brought to live on the big screen by pretty much the perfect cast and from all reports, director also.
Tracey and I had this conversation the [...]

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Elektra: I’m reasonably surprised

I don’t think that I would be saying anything too controversial if I were to suggest that the 2005 film Elektra is not considered to be the greatest comic book film ever. In fact I’ve heard remarkably bad things said about it, but then I heard a lot of the same things about the [...]

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The other comic book film that is currently floating my boat

I’m a huge Hellboy fan. Love him, love the BPRD, love Abe, love Johann, love Liz, love Kate and I suspect I’m going to love Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Actually I know I’m going to love the new film. With all the excitement over Iron Man coming I must say that [...]

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The Flash - Not just Dawson’s Dad!!!

Continuing on my theme regarding iconic characters and not so obvious but really cool scenes in films I turn my attention to the short lived action series The Flash. If you read this blog you already know that I bought the DVD series and some joy to go with that!After Batman’s success at the [...]

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