Saturday Morning Watchmen (2009)
I love that this short — created by Harry Partridge and posted a day before the Zack Snyder movie was released — exists. It presents a happier version of the Watchmen, as if they were a Saturday morning cartoon, with a buff Nite Owl, Ozymandias saving the Comedian from falling, Rorschach being an animal-loving comedy […]
Tales of the Black Freighter (2009)
One of my favorite things about Watchmen is that in the universe of that story, superheroes are real, so comic books never needed to write about them. Instead, pirate comics became the best sellers. Published by National Comics (the original name for DC Comics in our universe) and written by Max Shea and artists Joe Orlando […]
Under the Hood (2009)
Directed by Eric Matthies and written by Hans Rodionoff, who was also the writer of the two Lost Boys sequels, this was included on the Tales of the Black Freighter DVD. It’s an in-universe documentary featuring a television interview with Hollis Mason (Stephen McHattie, The People Next Door) the first Nite Owl, about his life. Despite […]
Watchmen Chapter One (2024)
Directed by Brandon Vietti and written by J. Michael Straczynski, the Watchmen animated movie gets a longer running time than the 2009 movie, which is the first good thing about it. Artist Dave Gibbons served as a consulting producer on the film, while Alan Moore, the writer, goes uncredited due to his displeasure with anyone adapting […]
Watchmen (2009)
I saw Watchmen in the first row of a packed theater, my face feeling like it was shoved against the screen, as the sound was so loud that it felt like it had crawled inside my brain and was screaming inside my skull. Watchmen probably should have never been made. The graphic novel by writer Alan Moore […]
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)
Based on the “The Supergirl from Krypton” issues of Superman/Batman, this is the sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and has an art style based on the late Michael Turner. Directed by Lauren Montgomery and written by Tab Murphy, this is the story of Kara Zoe-El (Summer Glau), the heroine who will become Supergirl and how Superman (Tim […]
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Directed by Sam Liu and written by Ernie Altbacker, this is based on The Judas Contract, a long-running storyline — Tales of the Teen Titans #42-44, and Teen Titans Annual #3 — by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. It somehow tries to combine Young Justice with Teen Titans and hopefully the original comics as […]
The Wizard of Space and Time (1979, 1987)
Mike Jittlov was a math major at UCLA, but taking an animation course to satisfy his art requirement led to two movies, The Leap and Good Grief, which made it into the professional finals for Academy Award nomination. With a 16mm camera and a multiplane animation system he built for $200, he became an animator. By 1978, […]
Tales from the Crypt S5 E13: Till Death Do We Part (1993)
Directed and written by W. Peter Iliff (Point Break, Varsity Blues), this episode stars John Stamos as Johnny Canaparo, a kept man in the employ of Ruth Rossi (Eileen Brennan), the widow of a powerful mob boss who killed her husband and took over his mob outfit. He never learns, as any woman he sleeps with […]
B&S About Movies podcast episode 63: Dondi
Let’s finish off 2024 with one of my most hated movies ever, based on the comic strip I hate more than Mark Trail and Mary Worth. It’s Dondi, a film that will kill you dead. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Amazon Podcasts, Podchaser and […]
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