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1) Blade II
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The legendary "daywalker" Blade must join forces with a high-powered team of vampires to take on a fearsom threat more deadly than either has seen before. These unlikely allies must stop a race of super-vampires intent on destroying everyone in their path - human or vampire.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While attending a local comic book convention, three filmmakers are so moved by the stories shared with them by attendees that they decide to travel across the country to better understand what makes fans so passionate about superheroes.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
WHY are so few women in the comics pages? That question becomes even more provocative as we watch four smart and witty role models -- Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Lynda Barry and "Brenda Starr's" Dale Messick -- share their creative process. Viewers will find themselves looking at the comics, and the world, in a new way. Entertaining and informative, the cartoonists reveal fascinating relationships with their characters, who say or do exactly...
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The new anthology series based on the 1982 horror-comedy classic, is still the most fun you2ll ever have being scared! A comic book comes to life in a series of vignettes, exploring terrors ranging from murder, creatures, monsters, and delusions to the supernatural and unexplainable. You never know what will be on the next page.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
With the help of their new recruits -- including Beast, Angel, Juggernaut, and Colossus -- the X-Men must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. A potential cure is discovered and processed to treat and ultimately eliminate the genetic mutations, once and for all....
Publisher
distributed by Bueana Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Quick-Stop potheads Jay and Silent Bob wreak vengeance on Hollywood, where Miramax is making a "Bluntman & Chronic" feature film inspired by the comic book version of the guys, but without their permission. En route from Jersey to Hollywood, the guys encounter sexy jewel thieves, a precocious orangutan, a dimwit wildlife marshal, and a nonstop parade of in-jokes and splendid celebrity cameos.
11) Kick-ass
Publisher
Lionsgate Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ordinary teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski captures the imagination of the public when he becomes the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass. After he teams up with the fearless father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, the three work together to take down the criminal empire of local Mafioso Frank D'Amico. But when D'Amico's son Chris is reborn as Red Mist, the showdown between the forces of good and evil will force Kick-Ass...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a group of artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company5 a company that continues to influence mainstream comics and culture to this day. Image Comics was more than just a publisher. It was a response to years of creator mistreatment, and it changed comics forever.
14) Crumb
Series
Criterion collection volume 533
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
Publisher
Fingerprint Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Calvin & Hobbes took center stage when it appeared in comics in 1985. A decade later, when Bill Watterson retired his strip, millions of readers felt the void. Here is an exploration to discover why his 'simple' comic strip has made such an impact on so many readers.
16) Spider-Man
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker finds himself gaining spider-like qualities. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green Goblin, another altered super-human, kills Peter's uncle, he swears to use his "spider-skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle a new job as a local reporter, and a budding romance with a beautiful former-classmate, MJ....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Comic Book Confidential is a feature-length documentary that profiles twenty-two of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and strip-art in North America today. In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and state-of-the-art animation techniques, Comic Book Confidential provides a positive answer to that burning existential question of the late twentieth century first posed...
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The new anthology series based on the 1982 horror-comedy classic. A comic book comes to life in a series of twelve vignettes over six episodes, exploring terrors from murder to the supernatural and unexplainable. Haunted dollhouses, werewolves, murderous goblins, villainous trick-or-treaters, the dead, and medical marvels are just a few of the things to watch out for in this new series.
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