Reportedly, Disney had lost faith in ‘The Lone Ranger’ during the production stages. Despite having Johnny Depp to play the iconic character Tonto, and Director Gore Verbinski of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ fame, the outlook of this film was not all that promising. If you go into this film with […]

The aim of most superhero adaptations is to fulfill the excitement and expectations of comic book nerds in the breath-taking visual experience of cinema. Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass takes a uniquely creative detour as its story is told from the perspective of teenage characters inspired by comic books. However, due to […]

‘The World’s End’ is the end. It is the last hurrah for comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Both have come from relative obscurity, from making ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’. Now they are putting the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ to bed. And they see off this chapter of […]

It’s been a bit of a rocky start for comic book movies this year. ‘Man of Steel’ was met with a lukewarm reception from fans and critics alike. ‘Origin’ movies are the in-thing with comic book films at the moment. This was mainly spurred on by Christopher Nolan’s successful Batman […]

The first film in what now appears to be the Kick-Ass franchise surprised us all. It looked like a complete spoof of superhero films, but the key to its success was its originality within plot and characters, as well as creative and somewhat artistic visual style. It was entertainment at the […]

‘Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa’ is the kind of film that will have you leaving the cinema quoting it for hours afterwards. It is not just funny; it is insanely funny. ‘Alpha Papa’ has been worked on ever since being green-lit in 2004, and it’s delivery in 2013 sure does, well, […]

The Wolverine might just be the superhero film that fans of the character have been waiting for. Peeling off the porous scab that was Origins, James Mangold’s film focuses on Wolverine’s Japan saga created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller in the 1983 miniseries. It does a good job of […]

It’s the little film that could. ‘The Conjuring’, with its meagre twenty-million dollar budget has beaten out every other blockbuster film in its path, amassing a whopping eighty-four million dollars so far. But why is it that a film whose story has been told time and time again is managing […]