Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a comic book movie about rock-n-roll, video games and falling in love. It’s frenetic and absurd, funny, sweet and fun, it claims to be “an epic of epic epicness” and you will most likely either love it or hate it.
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Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 starts up just about exactly where the original film left off – though from a slightly different perspective – and then the story jumps six months ahead into a world where Tony Stark has resolved the world’s conflicts as Iron Man.
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Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass. It’s an awkwardly-titled film. And it seems to be a movie without a target demographic. The trailer makes it seem like a comic book movie for kids, but the R rating implies that maybe it’s not for kids. (I can tell you right now: it’s not for kids, but it was a comic book.
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The Mindscape of Alan Moore
This review for The Mindscape of Alan Moore would not exist without the recent hype of the Watchmen movie, but this documentary has almost nothing to do with that project. There has been a lot of buzz concerning Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation of Alan Moore’s highly acclaimed graphic novel, Watchmen.
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Who Should Be Watching the Watchmen?
March 6, 2009: I am looking at a blank page on a computer screen. The words come so slowly. Where do they come from?
August 28, 1995: I am reading a comic book …a graphic novel, actually. I am 21 years old. At some point, every single comic reader I’ve ever known has recommended it to me.
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