With Brie Larson winning the Oscar this year for Best Actress, she’s catapulted herself into the rarified air of A-List Hollywood. Her leading role in the forthcoming King Kong should help seal the deal, but it’s Larson’s ability to leave a significant impact even in small supporting roles that makes it an easy bet that she will likely …
While it may initially appear irrelevant to the rest of the plot, Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #4 may be one of Gillen, McKelvie, Cowles, and Wilson’s finest hours as a creative team. By using the tropes and tics of a popular and defining work, they manage to tell a story that both plays with the central theme of the arc and the central theme of the work referenced in astoundingly creative ways. It’s fun, electric, and even just a bit precious.
With the success of the Marvel movies and the news that DC have started adding to their roster for the big screen, comic books have seen an explosion in popularity. No longer a niche hobby, these fun reads are now considered part of popular culture, like bingo or the Kardashians. Don’t waste your time on …
Breaking into the comic book industry is like breaking into Fort Knox with a blindfold on. It takes grit, determination and above all else, talent. While the vast majority of mainstream comic book publication takes place in the good old U.S. of A., there is a sleepy little country lying just to the north that’s …
Adult Swim animated this four-minute short that tells part of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim story that didn’t make it into Edgar Wright’s movie.
It’s a new year and a new decade. Here’s looking forward to a prosperous decade of cinema. Will it known for a slew of sequels and comic book adaptations and funny cat videos like the 00’s were? Or will it be known for groundbreaking and socially relevant cinema like the 70s? There’s a glimmer of …