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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Jack Black is… Spider-Man!

If there’s one person MTV can depend upon when they need a host for their Movie Awards, it’s Jack Black – mainly because he can always be relied on to come up with a film spoof that uses all the obvious jokes but still manages to raise a few laughs. Here, with gags that predate … >

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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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Jeff and Steve from ‘Coupling’ “do” Spider-Man

Back in the days when the only Doctor Who script on his CV was The Curse of Fatal Death, Steven Moffat’s finest hour – along with Press Gang, Chalk, Joking Apart, etc – was the comedy series Coupling. Through four great series at the dawn of the 2000s, Steve, Susan, Patrick, Jane, Sally and Jeff … >

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Spider-Man’s most AMAZING friend

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, your CultBox correspondent had several pre-adolescent crushes on female characters in imported cartoon series. Two that immediately spring to mind are Princess in Battle of the Planets and Sheila, the Thief from Dungeons and Dragons. Whether that was because they both had a tendency – thanks to … >

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‘Look out, he is a Spider-Pig!’

One of the most memorable moments in the enjoyably average Simpsons movie was Homer’s adopting of a porcine pet. Here, with visuals provided by whoever uploaded it to YouTube, is the full song from the end of the film. Ironically, given that the pig also adopts the guise of Harry Plopper later in the picture, … >

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Spider-Man and the World Trade Centre, Summer 2001

In July 2001, the first teaser trailer for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man was released to cinemas. By the time the film itself appeared a year later, the promo had long since been withdrawn and none of the footage it contained was apparent anywhere in the finished movie. Why? Well, according to distributors Sony, the sequence was … >

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