Comics Movies
Comics and movies both blossomed in the cultural landscape of the 20th Century. And as they flowered they cross-pollinated one another with their brightest blooms and their most effective arrangements. The digital revolution has opened many doors to the previously unfilmable, leading to an explosion in the number of comic book adaptations.
For many people 'comics movies' mean gaudy titans in tights pounding the snot out of one another. However, if you remove the properties of the two big American companies (DC and Marvel), a broader spectrum of the fantastic and mundane is revealed.
Presenting for your selection, a cornucopia of pocket universes born of ink, transformed into light. For Superheroes peruse the DC and Marvel sub-headings under Comics Movies, stage left.
Pictured: Marv (Mickey Rourke) takes a moment to collect his thoughts in 2005's "Sin City" - cinema's most faithful comic book adaptation to date.
Men In Black (1997)
7.3/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony...
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are the nattily-dressed government agents whose top secret job is to track down any extraterrestrials landing on Earth... Read more
Men in Black II (2002)
6.1/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rip Torn, Johnny Knoxville, Rosar...
The black-suited, shades-wearing dynamic duo of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back for more intergalactic fun in this hit sequel. With the Earth'... Read more
Men in Black II (Blu-ray) (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rip Torn, Johnny Knoxville, Rosar...
The black-suited, shades-wearing dynamic duo of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back for more intergalactic fun in this hit sequel. With the Earth'... Read more
Modesty Blaise (1966)
5.2/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp
Of the many '60s cinema spies who arrived in the wake of James Bond, none cut a finer figure than Italian siren Monica Vitti as jewel thief-turned-sec... Read more
Monkeybone (2001)
4.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Chris Kattan, Whoopi Goldberg, Rose McGowan, Giancarlo Esposito, Bridget Fonda,...
From the graphic novel "Dark Town" comes this wacked-out comedy in which cartoonist Brendan Fraser soon becomes victim to his own creation, Monkeybone... Read more
My Name is Modesty (2004)
4.6/10
Director: Scott Spiegel
Starring: Raymond Cruz, Eugenia Yuan, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alexandra Staden, Fred Pearso...
The early years of Peter O'Donnell's beloved pulp heroine Modesty Blaise are chronicled in this thrilling actioner. Following her escape from a Balkan... Read more
Mystery Men (1999)
6.1/10
Director: Kinka Usher
Starring: Eddie Izzard, William H Macy, Tom Waits, Paul Reubens, Lena Olin, Hank Azaria, G...
Based on the Dark Horse comic book, "Mystery Men" is the story of seven superheroes, called upon to use their dubious "powers". This wild and crazy mo... Read more
Oldboy (2003)
8.4/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Hye-jeong Kang, Ji-tae Yu
Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) has been imprisoned in a room for 15 years with no explanation when, barely sane, he is released. Thrown back into the world... Read more
Open Season (2006)
6.1/10
Director: Roger Allers, Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchi
Starring: Voices Of, Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Jon Favreau, Gary Sinise, Jane Krako...
Once again, a happily domesticated animal gets a nasty shock when returned to its natural habitat - in this case the fish out of water is a grizzly be... Read more
Peanuts: Charlie Brown Collection (1965)
7.8/10
Director: Bill Melendez
Starring: Charlie Brown, Snoopy
Since 1950 the world's most loved beagle, Snoopy, and his troupe of irrepressible friends have been a staple of the back pages of newspapers everywher... Read more