Of course, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was even a twinkle in Walt Disney’s cryogenically-frozen eye, the Avengers had already made the collective jump from comic page to small screen, via the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon series. The only blemish in this excellent mashup with the Friends theme music is a criminal lack of visual … >
It’s difficult to say whether this fits into the ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ category or if it’s more ‘so-amazingly-awful-it-has-attained-a-kind-of-dubious-car-crash-appeal-over-and-above-anything-it-deserves’. Whichever it is, and despite some ham-fisted editing and single entendres that even Talbot Rothwell would have drawn the line at, there are a few pained chuckles to be had at one enthusiastic editor’s attempts to turn the Iron … >
This video’s premise is as simple as the execution is elegant; what if Avengers Assemble was made before the actual comic book series? The answer is: it would probably have looked something like this blend of black-and-white horror movies, camp adventure serials and animation classics, and while it would have been gloriously rubbish as an … >
Although Family Guy’s funniest days are behind it, its power of pastiche remains undimmed, even in the widescreen era. If nothing else, you have to admire the sheer meticulousness of its artists – never better demonstrated than here in this shot-for-shot remake of the opening titles to the Incredible Hulk TV series, with Stewie taking … >
The long-awaited arrival of Avengers Assemble in cinemas next week has prompted the biggest outbreak of YouTube mashing-up since somebody noticed that because Darth Vader wears a helmet, dialogue from anything in the history of the world will fit if dubbed over the top. Here, the syncing isn’t quite as good as that, but it’s … >
Given the popularity of The X-Files at the time – not to mention the amount of time Mulder and Scully used to spend on their cellphones – it was hardly surprising that Vodafone decided to gently spoof the show in a series of ads for their network in the mid-1990s. Perhaps the best of the … >
Connoisseurs of William Shatner’s musical career – or the sonically-challenged, as they’re technically known – may well argue over the respective merits of his emotive, spoken-word interpretations of ‘How to Handle a Woman’, ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ without ever coming to any conclusions as to which is the best. One … >
It can’t be denied that The Walking Dead started dark and got progressively gloomier over the course of its first two seasons. To be fair, a show about the zombie apocalypse was hardly going to be all sweetness and light, was it? YES, ACTUALLY. It’s all a question of interpretation. Just chuck in a jaunty … >
Despite the recent trend for shoving it somewhere unexpected, such as at the end of the movie (Quantum of Solace) or after the pre-credit sequence in a tatty bathroom (Casino Royale), the opening gun-barrel sequence is one thing that almost everyone in the known universe agrees should be restored to its rightful place in the … >
They used to say that playing the title role in Doctor Who was the best job in television. If such a remark is ever repeated nowadays, it’s always qualified with reference to the incredibly long hours, the arduous hanging around waiting for shots to be ready, the stress of carrying the heavy burden of the … >