Review of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tomas Alfredson's slow-burning, balletic adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is rich in atmosphere, dripping with character and repressed emotion. →

V for Vendetta

If I told you now that towards the end of the film one of the characters, a thirty-something Londoner, says "This place gives me the collywobbles", you'd probably be able to guess which way I'm going to go with this. →

Hellboy

Hellboy has now joined my collection of films that are based upon comic books which I've never read. It joins Daredevil, Hulk, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and, er, Supergirl. Now, there's a line-up!

Compare it with my list of films that are based upon comic books that I have read; X-Men, Batman, Spiderman---a smaller collection, but one with significantly better films (discounting Joel Schumacher's efforts, of course). Will Hellboy stand with pride in the latter collection, or will it shuffle it's feet quietly with the flawed/awful works in the former?