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.
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
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Christopher Lloyd, Dennis Haysbert, Jeremy Piven, Joseph Gordon-Le...
This film is the sequel to 2005s 'Sin City' and is based on Frank Miller's popular, violent and sexy comic series. 'Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame... Read more
Snowpiercer (2013)
7/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Ed Harris, Ewen Bremner, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Chris Evans, Kang...
Adapted from a French graphic novel, the film is set in a dystopian near-future in which the entire Earth has succumbed to a new ice age and the last... Read more
Justice League (2017)
6.6/10
Director: Joss Whedon, Zack Snyder
Starring: Ben Affleck, Ciaran Hinds, Connie Nielsen, Diane Lane, Jeremy Irons, Jesse Eisen...
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even great... 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
Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons (1978)
4.8/10
Director: Henri Gruel, Rene Goscinny
The villainous Dalton brothers are a few days into their 2,400 year-long prison sentence when they learn of the death of their Uncle Henry. Before he... Read more
Whiteout (2009)
5.5/10
Director: Dominic Sena
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Alex O'Loughlin
Kate Beckinsale ("Underworld") stars in this suspenseful film based on a graphic novel by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber, portraying a U.S. marshal stati... Read more
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (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
Watchmen ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.6/10
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Stephen McHattie,...
Zack Snyder ('300') hit a home run with cinema audiences in adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic comic book. Set in an alternate 1980s univer... Read more
Lady Death (2004)
5.2/10
Director: Andrew Orjuela
Wrongly burned at the stake as a result of her father's betrayal, a pious 15th century girl makes a deal with the devil in this dark animated fantasy.... Read more