The Dossing Times

If you dont know what I’m referring to, first you should consider what your doing with your life and second, let me inform you that this is an animated treatment of the comic within a comic of ‘Watchmen’. This will be released on DVD to co-incide with the cinematic release of ‘Watchmen’. Its a great [...]

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So the comic book world is all a buzz – a long running story-line comes to its climax today being marketed as the death of Batman. Read more deeply though and you will see the scribe of the storyline has suggested this will be the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman – a very [...]

Watch all the Watchmen previews released to date including the latest full length trailer that lets you in on some plot – here. I’m not a fan of slo-mo but apart from that proceedings look excellent.

The New York Times have compiled a list of the greatest 1,000 movies ever made – quite the list as you can imagine – I’m determined to find the time though to work through the list and see how many I have seen.
Wizard Magazine, is counting down the 200 greatest comic book characters of all [...]

What became a huge event in comic book history only came about through the need to fill a gap in planned stories. Clark Kent had revealed his identity to Lois Lane and they were engaged to be married, meetings were held to plan the duos wedding, however they hit a stumbling block as it was [...]

I still remember the night back in 2006 I went to see ‘Superman Returns’ in Auckland, NZ in all its IMAX 3D glory, sick partly from the bad pizza I had just eaten but also from nervousness at finally getting to see a movie I had excitedly anticipated for over a year. All through its [...]

So this is a meshing of two of my favourites – Superman and Seinfeld. The comedian, a huge fan from his youth had Superman referenced numerous times in the long running sitcom, whether it be a Superman statuette positioned at various spots in his apartment or entire episodes parodying elements of the Superman mythology. Subsequent [...]

How the character of Superman arrived on Earth has been subject to many revisions yet the basic story has remained unchanged and well known. For the first of my posts we look to the real people behind the characters creation. Such a long history has meant that many people have been associated with the Man [...]

The year in film to date marked a true highpoint around Oscar time and now has lulled into a world where ‘Meet the Spartans’ topped the US box office in the past few weeks. In the midst of any tacograph of creativity there is usually some talent worth watching but in an age of as [...]