‘The Dark Knight Rises’ spoiler-free review
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.
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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 … >
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…
The Dark Knight Rises, the final instalment of Christopher Nolan’s epic Batman saga, opens in cinemas this week.
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 … >
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 … >
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 … >
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 … >
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 … >
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, … >