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.
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
The Crow (1994)
7.6/10
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Bai Ling, Brandon Lee, David Patrick Kelly, Ernie Hudson, Jon Polito, Michael Wi...
A superhuman mystical hero returns from the grave to exact revenge on the killers of his fiancee and himself on the eve of their wedding. The tragic d... Read more
The Crow ( Blu-ray ) (1994)
7.6/10
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Bai Ling, Brandon Lee, David Patrick Kelly, Ernie Hudson, Jon Polito, Michael Wi...
A superhuman mystical hero returns from the grave to exact revenge on the killers of his fiancee and himself on the eve of their wedding. The tragic d... Read more
The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
4.6/10
Director: Tim Pope
Starring: Ian Dury, Iggy Pop, Mia Kirshner, Thomas Jane, Vincent Perez
French actor Vincent Perez steps into the late Brandon Lee's shoes in this stylish sequel that finds the undead hero returning for revenge in a decayi... Read more
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
5/10
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Fred Ward, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
The third installment in the popular series features Eric Mabius as a man who returns from the dead after being executed on his 21st birthday for the... Read more
The Death of Stalin (2018)
7.2/10
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Dermot Crowley, Jason Isaacs, Jeffrey Tambor, Karl Johnson, Michael Palin, Steve...
When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Am... Read more
The Gene Generation (2007)
4.3/10
Director: Pearry Reginald Teo
Starring: Bai Ling, Parry Shen, Alec Newman, Faye Dunaway, Robert David Hall
In a bleak dystopian future, only those with top notch DNA are permitted entrance into the cities; the rest are left to wander in the desolate wastela... Read more
The Gifted: Season 1 (2017)
7.6/10
Starring: Amy Acker, Stephen Moyer, Jamie Chung, Sean Teale, Natalie Alyn Lind, Percy Hyne...
In a world where mutated humans are treated with distrust and fear, an institute for mutants battles to achieve peaceful co-existence with humanity. Read more
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)
6/10
Director: Rob Zombie
Starring: Geoffrey Lewis, Ken Foree, Paul Giamatti, Rosario Dawson, Tom Kenny, Sheri Moon...
El Superbeasto aka "Beasto" is an unstoppable superhero masked wrestler, Producer/Director/Star of BeastoWorld Enterpirses - and world-famous man of a... Read more