Death Note: The Last Name first published by Film4 Imagine having the power to end a life with the mere stroke of a pen, administering from a god-like distance your own brand of extra-judicial punishment on an outside world that you perceive as hostile, without regard for due process or indeed for ‘collateral damage’. In essence,…
Death Note first published by Film4, June 2008 As a cultural phenomenon, Death Note is the very definition of ‘big in Japan’. Starting life in 2003 as a serialised comic by Tsugumi Oba and Takeshi Obata for Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine, it has subsequently been collected into a 12-volume edition that has sold over 21 million copies,…
First published by musicOMH Every generation gets the Batman it deserves. The television series and movie spin-off of the mid-sixties was pure camp comedy dressed in a pop-art colour scheme. Tim Burton’s cinematic revamping of the late eighties was all gothic style (and little substance). Then in 2003, with Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, the shadier aspects…
Super first published by Little White Lies “You’ve gotta forget about that bitch, she’s a fuckin’ whore,” Frank (Rainn Wilson) is consoled after his wife Sarah (Liv Tyler), a recovering addict, leaves him for jovial drug dealer Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Frank, however, cannot forget – after all, the day of his marriage to Sarah was one…