Friday, December 4th, 2009
“Jingle Bells/Batman smells/Robin laid an egg/the Batmobile/lost a wheel/and The Joker got away” – The Joker’s version of...
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It’s a pity MTV’s computer animated Spider-Man series isn’t better known because, all in all, it was by far the best rendition of...
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After serving an apprenticeship with the Coen Brothers as their cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld went on to direct some very quirky and off-beat...
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George Reeves may well have been the best Superman ever, but his syndicated TV series Adventures of Superman was mainly aimed at young children and,...
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As Stephen King pointed out in his book Danse Macabre, Tod Browning’s 1932 seminal film Freaks was the precursor of the twisted morality fables...
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Tales from the Crypt, which ran from 1989 to 1996, was one of HBO’s most ambitious series. A return to the horror anthology format in the...
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As recently mentioned in this blog, DVD movie box sets tend to be mixed bags combining both winners and losers. Paramount Pictures’ Dean Martin...
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Warner Brothers’ Batman series (based on the classic comic book hero created by Bob Kane) got off to a spectacular start with filmmaker Tim...
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When Tim Burton launched the Batman film franchise in 1989, he was heavily influenced by artist/writer Frank Miller’s hit Batman comic book...
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An inevitable question that gets asked in discussions between comic book fans is: “DC or Marvel?” As many people, including comedian...
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