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.
Buck Rogers: The Serial (1939)
7.3/10
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe
A classic action packed sci-fi serial in 12 chapters. Emerging from a state of hibernation after 500 years, Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe) and young Budd... Read more
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
5.5/10
Director: Paul Hunter
Starring: Jaime King, Karel Roden, Seann William Scott, Victoria Smurfit, Chow Yun-Fat, Ma...
For 60 years a mysterious monk (Chow Yun-Fat) with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlim... Read more
Captain Marvel (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Gemma C...
Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrull... Read more
Captain Marvel (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Gemma C...
Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrull... Read more
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
6.2/10
Director: David Soren
Starring: Kristen Schaal, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele, Nick Kro...
George Beard and Harold Hutchins are two overly imaginative pranksters who spend hours in a treehouse creating comic books. When their mean principal... Read more
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (Blu-ray) (2017)
6.2/10
Director: David Soren
Starring: Kristen Schaal, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Jordan Peele, Nick Kro...
George Beard and Harold Hutchins are two overly imaginative pranksters who spend hours in a treehouse creating comic books. When their mean principal... Read more
Casper (1995)
6.1/10
Director: Brad Silberling
Starring: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle
Amazing special effects render this tale of the friendly ghost more real and exciting than previous tales of good-humoured hauntings. Bill Pullman, Er... Read more
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
4.5/10
Director: Sean McNamara
Starring: Brendon Ryan Barret
Re-join your favourites from the box office hit and meet some new friends too! This time Casper's on the run from the evil Kibosh, his assistant Snive... Read more
Comic Book Confidential (1988)
7.1/10
Director: Ron Mann
Starring: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Robert Crumb, Stan Lee
A spirited introduction to the wider spectrum of American Comics intercut with hysterical archive footage. Congression hearings, lurid anti-comic prop... Read more
Countdown to Wednesday: An Inside Look at the Comic Book Biz and How To Break In (2003)
5.4/10
Director: Hal Long
Starring: Stan Lee, Mark Waid, Paul Dini, Marc Silvestri, Jim McLoughlin, Matt Hawkins
Referring to New Release day in the comic world, this documentary is a whimsical look at the mad world of the comics industry, featuring interviews an... Read more