Danny Graydon

Bryan Singer’s SUPERMAN RETURNS gets a terribly unfair rap, not least maintained by the simple-minded cacophony of online fanboys, whose criticism seems confined to a small array of gripes (e.g: “Superman just lifts things!”; “Superman’s a deadbeat Dad!”; “Superman’s doesn’t punch anything!” etc) that are tediously parroted in a knee-jerk fashion, with determinedly little or [...]

Once Blu-Ray emerged as the clear victor in the so-called Format Wars with HD-DVD a few years back, that was the green light to embrace hi-def home video. Since then, I have been an enthusiastic convert, building up a growing library of new releases and upgrades of my favourite classics. With the latter, there’s no doubt that [...]

I am a big fan of the Downfall spoof. The long-running internet meme – anchored on re-subtitling a key scene from the superb 2004 film Der Untergang, in which Adolf Hitler receives the news that the tide has turned against The Third Reich, prompting his unrestrained fury – has proved so wonderfully malleable, even if, much to the producers [...]