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.
Lady Snowblood (1973)
7.7/10
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Her father, a schoolteacher, is brutally murdered. Her mother is beaten, raped, and forced into prostitution to survive, only to die giving her life.... Read more
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
7.2/10
Director: Albert Uderzo, Georges Dargaud, Rene Goscinny
Starring: Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, Cleopatra, Artifis
After Cleopatra enters an ill-advised bet with Caesar that her Egyptian builders can construct a grand palace in only three months, her distraught arc... Read more
Asterix vs Caesar (1985)
Starring: Asterix, Obelix
in ancient Gaul, one village resisted Roman occupation thanks to a magic potion of super strength and the village's clever hero, Asterix. With his fri... Read more
Deadpool 2 (Blu-ray) (2018)
7.9/10
Director: David Leitch
Starring: Josh Brolin, Leslie Uggams, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Eddie Marsan, TJ Mil...
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool meets Russell, an angry teenage mutant who lives at an orphanage. When Russell becomes the target of Cable -- a geneti... Read more
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Blu-Ray) (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
A History of Violence ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
7.5/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Ed Harris, Maria Bello, Viggo Mortensen, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie, Ashton...
Adapted from a graphic novel, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a quiet man living a quiet life in Indiana. A quiet shattered when a pair of fugitives wa... Read more
Virus (1999)
4.9/10
Director: John Bruno
Starring: William Baldwin, Joanna Pacula, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland
Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland are tugboat passengers who take refuge from a storm at a seemingly abandoned Russian intellige... Read more
Immortal (2004)
6/10
Director: Enki Bilal
Starring: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Thomas M Pollard, Frederic...
New York, 2095, and ancient Egyptian god Horus has one week to preserve his immortality. He's searching for a human host and a willing mate to continu... Read more
Popeye (1980)
5.2/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston
The legendary anvil-armed sailor of the seven seas comes magically to life, in this delightful musical version directed by Robert Altman and starring... 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