Digital Gonzo 86: Batman – Hush
This week rather than looking at another Batman movie, I’ve turned my attention to my favourite of his many graphic novels. Hush was written in 2002 by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee and is a mystery thriller featuring a massive cast of heroes and villains, manipulated from the shadows by a brilliant and malevolent masked figure named Hush, who seems to know far too much about Batman. The art is wonderful, the writing compelling. This is...
Digital Gonzo 85: Batman Forever / Batman & Robin
We’re back at the Bat! This week was going to be a pair of reviews of the 1995 film Batman Forever and the 1997 sequel; Batman & Robin, both directed by Joel Schumacher. What we found was that our problems with these films could not be separated and a great deal of the issues of the fourth Batman movie originated in the third, which usually gets off lightly as it is considered halfway watchable (we suspect because of Nicole...
Digital Gonzo 78: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm / The Animated Series
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm [1993] This is the fourth of the Batman shows. This time we’re taking a deep dive into the absolutely underrated box-office bomb, virtually unknown by the general public, but possibly best film about Batman until the Nolan films came along; Mask of the Phantasm. By extension this allows us to talk about the Animated Series which this sprang from unexpectedly for all. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill head up...
Digital Gonzo 77: Batman Returns
Batman Returns [1992] This is the third of the Batman shows. This time we’re focusing on the popular, troubled, dark, flawed and twisted sequel to Burton’s 1989 smash hit. My guests this week are Neil Taylor of GameBurst and KDS 2.0 along with Sharon Shaw, Jerome McIntosh and Paul Gibson of Gonzo Planet. This was the only big-screen Catwoman until this year’s Dark Knight Rises and the only Penguin if you don’t...
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Digital Gonzo 76: Batman [1989]
Batman [1989] This is the second of the Batman shows. This time we’re covering one of the most successful blockbusters of its day, a movie that redefined how Hollywood handled it’s big, fantastical character pieces. It followed on from Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) as the next significant step in comic-book movies, jump-starting a series that would dominate the 90′s in the way The Man of Steel dominated the...
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Digital Gonzo 75: Batman – The Movie [1966]
This is the first of eleven shows reviewing the many many movies that have been made about The Batman, starting way back with Adam West and culminating with The Dark Knight Rises, coming to cinemas this July. My guests this week are Joshua Garrity of Cane and Rinse, Neil Taylor of GameBurst and KDS 2.0 and Jerome McIntosh and Paul Gibson of Gonzo Planet. On the chopping block we have an extremely divisive depiction. Some will find it...
Digital Gonzo 80: Prometheus
Special Extended Edition: This version of the podcast now includes my final analysis at the end (around the 1.44 mark), answering many of the questions raised by the film by examining the original script by John Spaihts. This is viewable below with a rather neat visual element. 33 years after the original film, the director that started off the series returns to the same universe to start a new one. Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS is...
Digital Gonzo 84: Aliens vs. Predator Requiem
This is the final of seven reviews of the ALIEN anthology and the last of five reviews of the PREDATOR movies. This was the last ALIEN film produced leaving the once acclaimed series in the gutter of creature features filled with and made by talentless nobodies. The lack of gore in the Paul WS Anderson original caused the pendulum to swing back violently, the result being that this film is ONLY about the blood and guts. Its dingy,...
Digital Gonzo 83: Alien vs. Predator
This is the sixth of seven reviews of the ALIEN anthology and also the fourth of five reviews of the PREDATOR movies. Director of two of the Resident Evil movies and producer of the rest, Paul WS Anderson helmed the first PG-13 foray for these licenses, combining them into one family-friendly Jurassic Park-style romp. If you’ve not seen it the plot could be adequately described on the back of a matchbox or indeed with crude,...
Digital Gonzo 82: Alien Resurrection
This is the fifth of seven reviews of the ALIEN anthology. Quadrilogy (nonsense noun) Definition; “The greed-motivated act of adding a superfluous and worthless sequel to a trilogy that has been finished. Origin; Alien Resurrection.” – Oxford English Dictionary. After Fincher’s effort ended Ellen Ripley’s story, the geniuses at Hollywood started plans for how a person could “get better” from...
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