Animated Watchmen Trailer Brings the Comic to Life
The Minutemen are leaping off the comic page again, and this time, they’re a bit more animated. At today’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (the same one that saw the debut of footage from The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim), DC Animation released a brief teaser for the animated Watchmen movie. This […]
Red Band King’s Man Trailer Gets Zany
Manners have gone out the window as 20th Century Studios – which is no longer 20th or 21st Century Fox because it’s property of the Magic Kingdom now – has released a red band trailer for The King’s Man. A prequel to the wacky Kingsman spy series based on Mark Millar’s comic books, The King’s […]
REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9, “See How They Fly”
HBO’s official description of “See How They Fly,” the Watchmen season (series?) finale, highlights one of the larger sticking points with the sequel series: “Everything ends. For real this time.” In trying to carve out a reason for itself to exist, Watchmen the show undermines the original story by negating its events. Adrian Veidt’s victory […]
REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 8 “A God Walks into Abar”
“A God Walks into Abar” fills in plenty of Watchmen’s blanks, particularly the ones last week’s episode created when it revealed that Angela’s husband Cal is actually Doctor Manhattan. There are still elements that don’t make sense, and Angela remains a flat character, but it’s an entertaining installment that’s just as trippy as one would […]
REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 7 “An Almost Religious Awe”
If nothing else, “An Almost Religious Awe” assures us that Watchmen is completely off its rocker. This show is bugnuts crazy, and while I imagine Damon Lindelof and the rest of the people behind it think making everything about race is a shortcut to gravitas and intellectualism, the lunacy and slack-jawed idiocy can’t be ignored. […]
REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 6 “This Extraordinary Being”
“This Extraordinary Being” is a tough nut to crack. It has what could have been a fascinating story if it existed in a vacuum. Unfortunately, it’s a Watchmen story, and it retcons parts of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book that Damon Lindelof claims he so reveres to fit its narrative. Stilted dialogue, obvious commentary […]