We hope you’re watching carefully, Zack Snyder…
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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 … >
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 … >