When reviewing a comic strip entitled to have truly reinvigorated the genre, then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller – for his excellent Sin City series and his excellent presentation of the famous blind superhero Daredevil – is probably the superior competitor. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set out here a difficult task the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children's cartoon as a hero of our time. The great Alan Moore (V f…
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If Richard Donner’s 1978 feature film Superman: The Movie made us believe a man could fly, Bryan Singer’s 2006 follow-up, Superman Returns, lets us remember that a superhero movie can make our spirits soar. Superman (played by newcomer Brandon Routh) comes back to Earth after a futile five-year search for his destroyed home planet of Krypton. As alter ego Clark Kent, he’s eager to return to his job at the Daily Planet and to see Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth). Lois, however, has move…
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