As comic-book adaptations continue to broaden their hold of the multliplexes and DVD racks with franchises steadily taking root, what becomes important is that they each establish a tone that prevents them from blurring into a primary-coloured spandex...

Cinema has been an accepted part of or lives for so long that it’s easy to not question the affect that it can have on us. And when it comes to violence in films, that may actually be a momentous oversight – our over-consumption may have led to a certain...