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.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Blu-Ray) (2018)
8.7/10
Director: Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti
Starring: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry...
Teen Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realitie... Read more
Surrogates (2009)
6.3/10
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, James Cromwell, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Boris Kodjoe, Rosamun...
In the not-so-distant future, where people experience life through perfect surrogates controlled from the safety of their own homes, murder is a thing... Read more
Surrogates ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
6.3/10
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, James Cromwell, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Boris Kodjoe, Rosamun...
In the not-so-distant future, where people experience life through perfect surrogates controlled from the safety of their own homes, murder is a thing... Read more
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
7/10
Director: Freddie Francis
Starring: Ian Hendry, Joan Collins, Nigel Patrick, Patrick Magee, Peter Cushing, Ralph Ric...
When five unwary travellers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror's onl... Read more
Tales from the Crypt / Vault of Horror (1972)
Director: Freddie Francis, Roy Ward Baker
Starring: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice, Patrick Magee, Dawn Adams, Tom Baker,...
Two classic horror films in one volume. 'Tales from the Crypt' is a spine-tingling journey into terror with five unwary travellers trapped in catacomb... Read more
Tank Girl (1995)
5.3/10
Director: Rachel Talalay
Starring: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Malcolm McDowell
Apocalypse - ker-pow! Lori Petty is the British comic book-inspired heroine who enjoys cigarettes, beer, her half-man, half-kangaroo boyfriend and her... Read more
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
6.8/10
Director: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Stan Lee, Wil Wheaton, Will Arnett, Greg Cipes, Patton Oswalt, Joh...
It seems to the Teens that all the major superheroes out there are starring in their own movies-everyone but the Teen Titans, that is. But de facto le... Read more
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Blu-Ray) (2018)
6.8/10
Director: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Stan Lee, Wil Wheaton, Will Arnett, Greg Cipes, Patton Oswalt, Joh...
It seems to the Teens that all the major superheroes out there are starring in their own movies-everyone but the Teen Titans, that is. But de facto le... Read more
Terry and the Pirates (1940)
6.3/10
Director: James W Horne
Starring: Granville Owen, William Tracy, Shelia Darcy
Based on the 1934 comic strip by Milton Caniff, and transferred to the big screen in this thrill-a-minute, 15-episode serial. Young Terry Lee and his... Read more
The Beano Videostars (1998)
The world's wildest boy - Dennis The Menace - and his fellow stars from "The Beano" comic are here in sparkling animation. As well as Dennis's dogs, t... Read more