So the big question today seems to be “But what does $56 million meeean?� The question, of course, is in relation to the first weekend box-office take for Watchmen. The $56 million is quite a bit shy of the first bit of speculation, which pegged the movie taking in around $70 million or so in th...

Wonder Woman (2009 - Blu-ray) The Story: Pretty good. Exactly what I was expecting. Not as focussed, structurally sound or iconic as i'd hoped but completely serviceable. To be fair, nearly every single criticism I can throw at producer Bruce Timm, director Lauren Montgomery and crew's animated Wond...

Starring: Billy Crudup, Carla Cugino, Malin Akerman Directed by: Zack Snyder: Plot/synopsis: A former “Watchmen” superhero is murdered, the murder gets investigated by a new group of superheroes named the “Watchmen”. The film is set in 1985 in which they have something called...

For all five of you who haven't seen this yet, here it is: Happy Harry's "reanimation" of the Watchmen in a classic, Saturday morning animation style, complete with cheese-bag (read: awesome) theme song. "Strong together, united forever" For the record, I saw the feature film last night and I'm fair...

Is Warner Bros. paying street marketing teams to vandalize public property in New York City? Well, when put that way, it sounds like something the film industry monolith wouldn’t want to own up to. Whether or not they’re responsible, the words “Who Watches the Watchmen?â€� have appeared in...

The problem with “unfilmmable” pieces of literature is that they usually wind up getting filmed anyway. Everyone, as late as 1999, said the Lord of the Rings trilogy was unfilmmable because of the fantastic characters that inhabited the story and, indeed, the scope of the story itself. E...

Some news items just make you giggle. Take for example the news that Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan will be co-starring in a film formerly called A Couple of Dicks (Google search that title, I dare you), about “a pair of cops who track down a stolen baseball card, rescue a Mexican beauty and mu...

Not one to take a breather, Zack Snyder is immediately launching into his next project (and his first original script), Sucker Punch. I don't want to get all gushy and fangirly, but this might just be a film for the girls who identified with this. It might even be a film that embodies the Bechdel Ru...

  We would be more outraged about this news of a Kevin Smith film being censored if our initial reaction to this news wasn't "Kevin Smith is making another movie?" What juvenalia has he left unplumbed? Is there still more minutia of Star Wars yet to be discussed on the big screen?...

Filed under: Reviews Before we get to the review in earnest, I'd like to address the die-hard Watchmen fans, the ones who fall asleep with their nose in the book every night and who are positive that the upcoming film will be incapable of capturing the book's dark yet occasionally cheerful nihilism....