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With the recent release of the Hellboy reboot in cinemas this month, to mostly negative reviews, we take a look at a lesser-known animated Hellboy film, Sword of Storms, released in 2006, the first of two direct to DVD tales (the other…

Sean Connery ’s career ended with a whimper not a bang. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was the famed Scottish actor’s last film before he went into retirement. It might be one of his worst. A mishmash of Victorian characters from…

Now that Avengers: Infinity War has released and the dust has settled (pun intended obviously!) on our heroes' journey until next summer's as yet untitled Avengers 4, Stuart Kilmartin looks ahead to life post-Avengers 4, and what the MCU…

It’s almost 35 years since Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman put pencil to page on their bizarre spoof of the 80s comic book zeitgeist, creating what is undoubtedly the strangest billion-dollar pop culture phenomenon of all time. Parodying the…

In part 5 of Eoin Rogers' series on the history of comic books, he looks at the role Alan Moore's Swamp Thing played on the world of comics and how it formed the basis for adult comic book stories. Check out the previous articles here,…

The future is bright for Comic Book movies and with four major film studios vying for blockbuster payouts there are a plethora of quality titles to entice you into the cinemas in the coming years. In Part 8 we looked at Captain Marvel as…

Part 4 of Eoin Rogers' series on the history of comics looks at how social issues of the 1970s began influencing the stories of our superheros. Check out the rest of the series here. No doubt a reaction against the squeaky clean…

The future is bright for Comic Book movies and with four major film studios vying for blockbuster payouts there are a plethora of quality titles to entice you into the cinemas in the coming years. Last time in Supermovies, we looked at…

The future is bright for Comic Book movies and with four major film studios vying for blockbuster payouts there are a plethora of quality titles to entice you into the cinemas in the coming years. As we saw in Part 1, 2015 will bring us…