March 7, 2009 by Steven H. Bagley  
Filed under Overthinking It

Okay, so I went to see that little movie based on some four-color funny book that just hit theaters, “Watchmen,” and maybe it was the inundation that comes along with every big-budget movie like this, but when I finally got to see how Zach Snyder, David Hayter and Alex Tse rendered their homage to Alan [...]

March 7, 2009 by Steven H. Bagley  
Filed under Overthinking It

The deconstructionist middle finger of Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” showed an industry built around taking masked heroes seriously just how silly it was.
It was the punk kid in the back of the classroom who knew everything already, and was angry with and bored at the kid in the front of the classroom who didn’t know the [...]

March 7, 2009 by Kellen Rice  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Reviews

So “Watchmen” is not a perfect film. But it is, without a doubt, a damn good one.

Does it hold a candle to the original, or is this just a case of fearful symmetry?

When the film adaptation of the graphic novel sensation “Watchmen” was first announced, the main concern was whether director Zack Snyder could pull off a successful adaptation of Alan Moore’s iconic word.
Key among those concerns was whether the Minutemen — a group of superheroes founded in 1939 and pivotal to the [...]

February 27, 2009 by Terri Schwartz  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, The Magazine

Courtesy of Rubber Republic and Blast Magazine.

February 18, 2009 by Terri Schwartz  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, The Magazine

Three exclusive Watchmen scenes.

February 17, 2009 by Terri Schwartz  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, The Magazine

Videos to sate your “Watchmen” fix.

The 18 minutes of “Watchmen” footage reaffirmed what I already anticipated – “Watchmen” is brilliant. Dave Gibbons, co-creator and illustrator of the “Watchmen” graphic novel, discussed with the audience how director Zack Snyder incorporated a combination of scenes both in and outside of the comic book to create a better visual picture for all audiences to appreciate. I was awed how, within the first 10 minutes of footage, “Watchmen” had managed to establish the idea of “the Doomsday clock is always five minutes to midnight” and the fact the film takes place in an alternate time where Nixon is still president.

Warner Bros. issued a press release today announcing the DVD and Blu Ray release of the much anticipated “Watchmen” companion — “Watchmen: Tales from the Black Freighter and Under the Hood” — will be released on March 24, 2009.
“Tales of the Black Freighter” will also include “Under the Hood,” an autobiography of “Watchmen” character Nite [...]

Everyone is watching the Watchmen–or rather, everyone is watching the dueling studios 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers as the fate of the highly-anticipated film is gradually shrouded in uncertainty and confusion. With Rorschach, the Comedian, Silk Specter, Nite Owl, and the rest of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ brilliant cast so tantalizingly close to the silver screen, fans and film-lovers alike are anxious over the conflict. Will there be “Watchmen” on the night of March 6th, the day of the film’s scheduled release? Or will the conflict remain unresolved, as many fear, and result in postponement or even cancellation?

November 14, 2008 by Terri Schwartz  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, The Magazine

Yahoo has posted the newest trailer for Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen,” set to release March 6, 2009.

October 29, 2008 by Terri Schwartz  
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This newest “Watchmen” trailer was aired during the Spike TV Scream Awards.

Director Zack Snyder tried to stay as true to the original story as a two-and-a-half-hour movie can to a 416 page novel.

“Making a movie about the war on terror and [modern politics] seemed really wrong in a lot of ways to me,” said Snyder. “It’s cooler if people go, ‘Oh hey, this makes me think,’ instead of me telling people what to think.”

July 18, 2008 by Terri Schwartz  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, The Page One Story

Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?