We’re living through a golden age of comic book cinema. Superheroes are now more prevalent at your local multiplex than surly staff and that weird all-pervading smell that’s halfway between stale popcorn and ‘warm old shoe’. And though not every caped film that crusades across our screens is a critical victory, most feature music that raises the hairs on the back of your neck and sticks in the mind long after the world’s been saved.
Item 47, the latest of Marvel’s series of ‘One Shots’ – short films that are the equivalent of their one-issue, stand-alone comics – is attached to the Blu-ray release of Avengers Assemble.
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.