‘Super Golden Friends’

In The Dark Knight Rises, we’re introduced to an older Batman than we’ve seen previously, one closing in on middle-age with the weight of the world – or Gotham City, anyway – on his shoulders. But what happens afterwards? Do superheroes continue to do good past pensionable age or do they give it up and … >

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Batman’s Top 5 gadgets

Spider-Man has his webs, Superman has his… everything, but Batman has his gadgets. With The Dark Knight Rises in cinemas tomorrow, let’s take a look at the top five Batman gadgets of all time.

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15 best/worst moments from ‘Batman & Robin’

If there’s one film considered to be an unmitigated disaster in the distinguished history of big screen Batman, it’s the famously campy and horrendously awful pile of bat-cack that is 1997’s Batman & Robin. If you like your Dark Knight all grim and brooding, like Christian Bale, or sensitive and brooding, like Michael Keaton, or … >

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Batman gets pulled over by the police

It’s all going so well. You’re cruising in a supercar, you’re dressed as Batman, and nobody knows your real name is Lenny. Then a passing law enforcement officer notices that you’ve got bat symbols instead of licence plates and decides to pull you over, and it all starts to go horribly wrong. ‘You can send … >

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The Dark Knight rises… in ‘South Park’

Anyone who thought Batman was really the billionaire playboy philanthropist Bruce Wayne has been deluding themselves for too long. As this trailer for the forthcoming movie shows, the Dark Knight’s secret identity is actually Eric Cartman, while the big baddie who blitzes Gotham is more of a Butters than a Bane…

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Win rare Batman posters with the BFI!

In preparation for the much-anticipated The Dark Knight Rises, the BFI Southbank in London is screening a selection of director Christopher Nolan’s movies this month, including Inception, The Prestige, Memento and Batman Begins. > Book tickets on the BFI website. To celebrate, we’ve got awesome rare Batman posters to give away to two of our … >

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Win ‘Spider-Man’ goodies!

With the new blockbuster movie The Amazing Spider-Man in cinemas now, we’ve got DVD boxsets reliving some of Spidey’s greatest adventures and exclusive comics, never before released in the UK, to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow CultBox on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow … >

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