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July 22nd, 2009

Competition Closed: Watchmen DVD and Hardback Movie Tie-In

*** Competition Closed *** *** Congratulations to Tikkin, who has won the Watchmen DVD and Book ** The Watchmen movie is probably the best comic book adaptation there’s been and it’s one of the best films I’ve seen this year. Rick reviewed the film in February: This is no superhero movie. This is an adaptation [...]

Posted in Competitions, Featured Post, Movies & TV, Site News, The Culch
By Darren Byrne

May 13th, 2009

Infected – Reznor and Innovation

‘Infected’ will be a weekly column by Venntertainment.com documenting Pop Culture in Viral Marketing. ‘Infected’ will also include sporadic ramblings on other random ‘viral’ topics…watch this space!

This Week we have our first post:

Reznor and Innovation

Posted in Infected, Random Whimsy, The Culch, The Internet
By Rob Cumiskey

April 7th, 2009

Comics for the Noob

All the furore over the release of a movie based on “the greatest comic of all time” had me worried I might have been missing out on something. So, the week before the Watchmen premiere I started reading the graphic novel. Once I had learned to slow down and appreciate the artwork and not just [...]

Posted in Comics, The Culch
By Darren Byrne

March 24th, 2009

The Coon

Ok, Southpark is still funny. As society breaks down and the economy worsens, Southpark has only one hope…

Posted in The Culch, TV
By Darren Byrne

March 13th, 2009

Zack Snyder has an unusually cruel eye.

I’ve written a longer review of Watchmen elsewhere, but there is an addendum I’d like to make that fell out of my head until a fridge moment today (and will serve as my inaugural post here). The Kennedy shooting during the title montage was possibly the cruellest thing to grace a cinema screen since the [...]

Posted in Movies & TV, The Culch
By Allan

March 11th, 2009

I’m a graphic novel virgin

With all the talk of Watchmen on Twitter and elsewhere recently, I decided to seek out the book and read it before seeing the film. A few comments I read indicated it would be a good idea to do this as well. So I set off for the closest branch of Waterstones to discover a [...]

Posted in Books, Comics, The Culch
By lecraic

February 11th, 2009

Watchmen

Although our glorious leader, Rick, has already seen and reviewed Watchmen, some of us are looking forward to catching the Irish Premiere on Tuesday 3rd March. I’m off to read the end of the graphic novel now. Go check out the Watchmen website for some snazzy looking extra information.

 

 

Posted in Movies & TV, The Culch
By Darren Byrne