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.
Sin City (2005)
8/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Brittan...
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller together adapted three of Miller's noir-drenched stories from his famous comic series. With a stellar cast (includi... Read more
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2008)
7.6/10
Director: Jake S Hughes
Starring: Narrated by, Tom Stechschulte
Experience Alan Moore's groundbreaking comic as never before in this series that puts the original artwork on-screen, adding voiceover and an original... Read more
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
5.8/10
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Sean Connery, Peta Wilson, Stuart Townsend, Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh, Nas...
A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, a beast... When a masked madman known as "The Fantom" threatens to launch glob... Read more
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Blu-ray) (2021)
6/10
Director: Andy Serkis
Starring: Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Tom Hardy, Reid Scott, Naomie Harris, Stephe...
Eddie Brock struggles to adjust to his new life as the host of the alien symbiote Venom, which grants him super-human abilities in order to be a letha... Read more
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Tad Stones, Victor Cook
Starring: Voices Of, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Doug Jones, Peri Gilpin
When Hellboy and co investigate the haunted mansion of an attention-seeking billionaire they uncover a host of nasties and a plot to resurrect a very... Read more
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers - Chapters 1-4 (1936)
6.5/10
Director: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton
Chapters 1-4. Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orb... Read more
X-Men: Volume 1, Episodes 1-8 (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Various
A fondly remembered treatment of Marvel's classic super-hero team. This series from the early 1990s brought cutting-edge animation and design to Satur... Read more
When the Wind Blows (1986)
7.8/10
Director: Jimmy T Murakami
Starring: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Voices Of, Robin Houston
An enormous success in England, based on the best-selling book by Raymond Briggs, this is the powerful, unforgettable story of the consequences of nuc... Read more
Delta State: Volume 1 (2004)
7.7/10
Director: Pascal David, Wayne Moss
Based on a comic book this Canadian animated series features four amnesiacs who can enter the 'Delta State', an ethereal realm where they must piece t... Read more
Dragon Tiger Gate (2006)
6.2/10
Director: Yip Wai-Shan
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Donnie Yen
Award-winning martial arts drama from Hong Kong derived from the comic book of the same name. When Tiger Wong (Nicholas Tse) uses his special Dragon S... Read more