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Five films scored by rock musicians
5 Nov 2012
As Jonny Greenwood scores The Master, we look at soundtracks by Neil Young, Nick Cave and Daft Punk
With Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie The Master already being showered with plaudits and sweeping the board across a number of international film festivals it may be worth noting that the enigmatic director’s latest foray into the world of art-house…
RED
22 Oct 2010
(12A) 111min Action romcom adapted from Warren Ellis' graphic novel as a bunch of old duffers (Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox) are called back from retirement (RED stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous) for…
Iron Man: Extremis
24 Apr 2008
Warren Ellis & Adi Granov
SUPERHERO (Marvel) This is perhaps the classic modern Iron Man tale. Warren Ellis gets his grubby hands on Tony Stark and changes him forever. Here the Golden Avenger takes on bio-chemically altered terrorists, who possess more power than even his…
Warren Ellis, Cary Nord & Dave Stewart - Ultimate Human No.1
17 Jan 2008
SUPERHERO (Marvel) Marvel’s Ultimate line was intended to reinvent the company’s main characters for the 21st century, to drag them out of the hands of continuity-obsessed fanboys for a while and show off how well superhero stories could function as a…
Second Life interview
12 Feb 2007Another world
I don’t know if anyone else saw it, but earlier this month there was a riot involving anti-racism protestors and Front National (the French equivalent of the National Front). One online commentator described it as a ‘conflagration of mini-guns, cursing…
Warren Ellis & Mike Deodato Jr - comic review
29 Jan 2007
Warren Ellis & Mike Deodato Jr
SUPERHERO Having run for the past few years as a fanboy-friendly graveyard for all of Marvel’s most colourful and perhaps least inspiring villains, this first issue of Warren Ellis’ tour of duty as writer promises to make it a title worth…
Warren Ellis & JH Willliams III - comic review
19 Dec 2006
Warren Ellis & JH Willliams III
SCI-FI This is just what Warren Ellis revels in, dark sci-fi with a nasty twist. And while Desolation Jones isn’t up to the standards of the blackly comic Transmetropolitan, it starts with a bang and is far bleaker than most of Ellis’ output. Used as…
