We’re living through a golden age of comic book cinema. Superheroes are now more prevalent at your local multiplex than surly staff and that weird all-pervading smell that’s halfway between stale popcorn and ‘warm old shoe’. And though not every caped film that crusades across our screens is a critical victory, most feature music that raises the hairs on the back of your neck and sticks in the mind long after the world’s been saved.
There are times when Downton Abbey resembles nothing so much as an episode of French and Saunders.
Item 47, the latest of Marvel’s series of ‘One Shots’ – short films that are the equivalent of their one-issue, stand-alone comics – is attached to the Blu-ray release of Avengers Assemble.
To those who stuck through the series it has been worth it for the many positives that have made Sinbad nothing less than very enjoyable.
ParaNorman, like its main character, is mature, likeable, and has something to teach us all.
Yes, you will need hankies ready. Goodbyes are no more easy for Time Lords than they are for us.
It’s a wannabe epic, but (and this is definitely a latter-day Torchwood trait) neither the passing of time nor the global scale are convincing.
In its final episode, Parade’s End provides its hero and its audience with suffering and triumph.
This is another big and bold, globe-trotting adventure for what is left of the Torchwood team.
Untouchable sees the unfolding of a lasting friendship, with this century’s The Odd Couple navigating love, life, loss and reckless driving.