Had Alan Moore just stopped writing comics after the 1980s — during which readers were introduced to Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Superman: Whatever Happened to ...
One of the most notorious examples is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Released in 2003, the film adapted the celebrated comic book series by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, which brings together ...
A stiff. I don’t know the comic book series, but it could hardly be as lifeless as this leaden adaptation, in which the weapons have more personality than the characters and the nonstop action often ...
Allan Quartmain aims a revolver as he stands by the bar in a messy library room. Image via 20th Century Studios While the comic book movie genre is all the rage now thanks to the MCU and DC, there was ...
There is something extraordinary about "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," and that is the extraordinary ordinariness of its awfulness. It's not brazenly bad or heroically bad or stridently bad.
The early 2000s were a weird time for comic book movies. Studios hadn’t yet cracked the formula, and CGI was both everywhere and not quite good enough. Every studio was chasing X-Men or Spider-Man ...
“Rocketman” director Dexter Fletcher is attached to direct a remake of “The League of Gentlemen” for Paramount Pictures, TheWrap has exclusively learned. While details are being kept under wraps, the ...
And thus it was, with a great and zestful relish, that I betook myself to the cinema to see a moving-type picture account of the great heroes of that bygone age. While some of my favorites, including ...
Last Friday, The New Criterion and Britain’s Social Affairs Unit hosted a conference at the Union League Club called “Threats to Democracy.” The papers and discussion from this conference will be ...
"Rocketman" director Dexter Fletcher is attached to direct a remake of "The League of Gentlemen" for Paramount Pictures, TheWrap has exclusively learned. While details are being kept under wraps, the ...