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: Homecoming (Blu-Ray) (2017)
7.5/10
Director: Jon Watts
Starring: Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Holland
Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, young Peter Parker returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the watchful eye of mentor Tony Stark,... Read more
The Spirit (2008)
4.8/10
Director: Frank Miller
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Jaime King...
A good-guy cop is killed in the line of duty and comes back to life as shadowy crimefighter 'The Spirit', now pitted against 'The Octopus' who wants t... Read more
The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2006)
7.6/10
Director: DeZ Vylenz
Starring: Alan Moore
Alan Moore is a creator of comic books and graphic novels and in this portrait of the artist as contemporary shaman, someone with the power to transfo... Read more
Dredd (2012)
7.1/10
Director: Pete Travis
Starring: Lena Headey, Karl Urban, Wood Harris, Olivia Thirlby
In a desolate post-atomic America, the remaining humans live in police-controlled 'Mega-Cities'. In Mega-City One, a vast, violent metropolis where cr... Read more
The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat (1974)
5.4/10
Director: Robert Taylor
Starring: Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Voices Of, Bob Holt
This sequel to the notorious original finds the hippie feline in the '70s. Now on welfare with a nagging wife, he smokes dope for escape, and fantasiz... Read more
Hellboy (2004)
6.9/10
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, John Hurt
Guillermo Del Toro's unique and stunningly realized adaptation of Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series stars a perfectly cast Ron Perlman as the... Read more
Renegade ( aka Blueberry ) (2004)
5.2/10
Director: Jan Kounen
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison, Ernest Borgnin...
This loose adaptation of Jean 'Mobius' Giraud's comic series 'Blueberry' stars Vincent Cassel as the lawman whose past comes back to haunt him when th... Read more
Richie Rich (1994)
5.8/10
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Edward Herrmann, John Larroquette, Macaulay Culkin
Based on the popular comic, this entertaining family film stars Macaulay Culkin as the richest kid in the world, who with the help of his friends and... Read more
Venom (2018)
7/10
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Michelle Williams, Stan Lee, Woody Harrelson, Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Reid Scott,...
Journalist Eddie Brock is trying to take down Carlton Drake, the notorious and brilliant founder of the Life Foundation. While investigating one of Dr... 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