When Bruce Wayne set out to turn himself into the Dark Knight, he spent years travelling, studying and training. He also invested untold millions of dollars from his inheritance equipping himself and his ever-increasing fleet of bat-themed custom vehicles. It’s hard to imagine that anyone could be as effective in their crusade against crime without … Continue reading
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Funk’s Top 10: Comic Characters on Film
Comic books, like any form of story-telling, relies on strong characters to connect with the reader. When dealing with such fantastic and otherwordly characters, this becomes a greater challenge for comic book writers, especially when they make the leap to the silver screen. This turned out to be a remarkably tough list to narrow down … Continue reading
Funk’s Top 10: Television Shows that Would Make Great Movies
TV and cinema have a rocky relationship. Although both the same on the surface – both audio/visual mediums – they have their own formats, narrative styles and genres that are sometimes incompatable. Whilst many assume that making the jump between the two should be easy, but the results are more often than not terrible (I … Continue reading
Bede’s Month In Movies – June
NOTE: Sorry that I’m really late with mine this month, I been so busy the lastfew weeks that I only had a chance to it until now. Number of Movies Seen This Month: 50 Number of Movies Seen This Year (so far): 274 5/5 – Excellent A Simple Plan X-Men: First Class 4.5/5 – Really Great … Continue reading
The 10 Least Threatening Villains in Cinema by G-Funk
Cinema is littered with many great examples of evil villainly, and countless lists have been dedicated to them. Here’s the opposite end of the spectrum: the ones who sucked at the job. These boys couldn’t menace their way out of a paper bag. 10. Green Goblin (William Dafoe) from Spider-man Let’s be clear about one … Continue reading
Thursday Top 10 – Opening Scenes
10. The Fellowship of the Ring Adapting the epic trilogy to the screen, capturing the scale and condensing the fictional history was a big sell. Telling us that it was going to be achieved by a Kiwi director whose most seen previous work was Braindead was an even bigger sell. Needless to say that this … Continue reading