Here’s a tip for comics readers – speaking from 2013, the 1980s is the best era of comics to delve into. Comics from the 70s or before are not easy to find, and are too expensive. Comics from the 90s, especially the early 90s (i.e. the era of the speculator boom and bust), roughly till the arrival of Warren Ellis’ The Authority, in general...

For certain movie fans, the phrase “Directed by Guillermo del Toro” elicits a certain tingling of expectation and excitement. Del Toro is one of the most forceful auteurs currently working in the speculative fiction film industry and while his early films were relative flops and are popular now only in a cult and fan market, Del Toro’s name now...

Who are the most powerful women in popular culture? Before you look at any of the names below, how many truly powerful women in popular culture can you think of? Chances are that when the most influential creators in pop culture are considered, most of those names – the most powerful filmmakers, comic creators, music artists, TV creators – are going...

Teenagers and young people in general have long been a potent market for the film industry and coming of age movies have been a staple genre for decades. Coming of age movies aren’t all about easy marketing though, their stories appeal in a timeless sense even if the movies themselves tend to date. Whatever the generation, whatever the fashions, whatever...

A good looking horror mask (or bad looking, depending on how you think of it) can go a long way to set a character up in cinema’s hall of fame. That’s not just for horror movies or scary masks (is it Jim Carrey), but that’s what we’re focusing on here. In a lot of these films, the mask has made not only the villain, but the entire feel of the movie – the mask...

The annual ‘Treehouse of Horror’ has been a Halloween treat for Simpsons fans since the show’s second season way back in 1990. Back then we had Homer playing the lead role in an animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven(and Bart as the bird); the Simpson family being abducted by aliens and fearing they would be eaten in ‘Hungry are the Damned’ – which was also...