Top 4 candidates to play Batman next
Who will be following in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer (shudder) and, of course, Christian Bale to take up the mantle of the caped crusader?
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Who will be following in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer (shudder) and, of course, Christian Bale to take up the mantle of the caped crusader?
Contrary to popular belief, Spider-Man isn’t a nocturnal, gawkily cocky Twilight-y teen played by Andrew Garfield or an uptight, Dunst-fancying undergraduate who looks like Tobey Maguire under his mask; he’s a laidback dude from Poland with a silly string surplus – and he’s a genius…
Marvel Avengers Assemble (can we really still not just call it The Avengers?) will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 17th September. > Pre-order the DVD on Amazon. > Pre-order the Blu-ray on Amazon.
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man in a cape solving street-level crime! Yes, it’s 1952’s The Adventures of Superman.
Dodgy mash-up ahoy! What do you get if you combine the cutesy, harmless innocence of the merchandise-opportunistic equine chums from My Little Pony and the massively-overexposed main trailer from violent gloom-fest The Dark Knight Rises? You get Rainbow Dash as Batman, Scootaloo as Alfred, Discord as Bane and a headache at the wrongness of it … >
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 … >
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.
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 … >
If it’s not better than The Dark Knight, it’s at least as good. And that cements Nolan’s Batman series as among the finest trilogies the cinema has ever seen.
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 … >