Watchmen

Comic Books Are Older: One reason comic book movies have fared better than video game translations is a simple one: Comics have been around so much longer. "There has been 40 years of different comic books. ... Writers have had to really get into the characters of the superheroes themselves. The...

By Kevin Kelly It’s also pretty hard to ignore some of implausible moments in the movie, like Mila Kunis trying to act like a vampy thug. She just can’t pull it off. There’s a also a scene where Mark Wahlberg hauls himself out an icy river and is forced to take Valkyr to keep himself alive. He screams out to the sk...

Hollywood continually pilfers the world of video games as the source of movies-- sometimes with disastrous results. Consider some of the stinkers: Hitman, Doom, Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Bros, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (the sequel; at least the original was watchable...

By William Goss Talk about picking your battles: John Moore, director of the upcoming thriller Max Payne, has openly lashed out at the MPAA for granting the film a full-blown R rating instead of an hoped-for PG-13, explicitly calling out the ratings board for granting leniency towards The Dark Knight. H...

By William Goss Talk about picking your battles: John Moore, director of the upcoming thriller Max Payne, has openly lashed out at the MPAA for granting the film a full-blown R rating instead of an hoped-for PG-13, explicitly calling out the ratings board for granting leniency towards The Dark Knight. H...

The makers of "Watchmen'' are absolutely living up to the hype, while the wide-eyed "Twilight'' team is just now realizing how huge the fan expectation is for its vampire romance. "The Spirit,'' meanwhile, quieted some of the anxieties of comic-book purists who have wondered why exactl...

By Erik Davis The game itself includes slo-mo scenes -- kinda like that Matrix stuff -- and based on this trailer, it seems we'll get a fair amount of it in the film (which also seems to have a Sin City sorta vibe to it too). It definitely looks highly-stylized, which seemed to work for this summer's Wanted. J...