As Leon Ford’s mild-mannered Aussie superhero flick Griff the Invisible points out, it’s highly improbable that a masked vigilante by night is a charismatic playboy millionaire like Bruce Wayne by day. No, it takes a ‘special’ kind of person to profess to having superpowers and fight crime wearing a rubber suit. You know, someone who is… missing a few screws.  Not the sharpest tool in the shed. One banana short [...]

It’s easy to laugh at the inherent goofiness of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, a Tolkien-esque fantasy epic in which a bunch of talking CGI owls don ornate suits of armour and deliver lines like “Trust your gizzard, Soren” without so much as a wink. In fact, there isn’t a single sight gag or pop culture reference to speak of, which is astonishing, really, when [...]