Danny Graydon

A friend directed me to this fascinating and very obscure piece of Batman media from 1973 – which I’d never seen before –  in which Batman, Robin and Batgirl from the Sixties TV show highlight a new Federal law regarding equal pay for women. Now, I’m pretty certain that’s not Adam West – althought whoever […]

Last month, I turned 38 years old – and that’s enough about that. ANYWAY. For many, many years now, I have been haunted by the dim memory of a TV show that I watched when I was a boy. Ever hovering on the edge of remembrance, only two details fuelled its continuing presence in my […]

Last week, I interviewed composer Hans Zimmer for EMPIRE to discuss his score for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES for the mag’s TRACK BY TRACK feature (which you can read in the next issue, hitting the stands at the end of this month). At the end of our 40-minute chat – and before a Warner Bros […]

The news that composer Hans Zimmer has signed a deal to score next summer’s highly-anticipated reboot of the Superman franchise, MAN OF  STEEL was as surprising as it was, to be honest, tediously inevitable. Surprising, because he’d previously forthrightly nixed the notion on the most obvious (and entirely understandable) grounds: “John Williams, the greatest living composer – […]

Last week, legendary UK Comics scribe Pat Mills posted some exceedingly good news on his Facebook page: “DC Comics confirm Marshal Law omnibus for firm publication date of Spring 2013. It will feature all the Law stories apart from the crossovers.  These might be included in a later omnibus edition.  Sorry about  delays, but this […]

On March 14th, I made my debut appearance on BBC 1’s flagship and long-running Film programme, Film 2012, in a video segment covering Comic Book Films. Hosted by my good friend and EMPIRE colleague Christ Hewitt, the segment features myself, Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar (Kick-Ass), Pixar director Andrew Stanton (John Carter) and MARVEL […]

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 […]

These days, the only time you hear about Danny DeVito’s 2002 black comedy Death To Smoochy is when it’s the punch-line to The Daily Show host’s Jon Stewart’s habitual self-mockery of his acting career, the pinnacle of which, he quips, was as the film’s “fourth male lead”. In actual fact, the genial Stewart was being […]